Back at the start of the year I had a call from the people at Goldtop England - makers of great classic leather biker gear. Their main man Kasey had seen my prints at the Kickback custom motorcycle show in Chelsea last December and felt he would like to commission me to do a couple of images for Goldtop to use on t-shirts and maybe elsewhere too. I was pleased about this as I knew the Goldtop name of old, plus the previous winter I had bought a pair of their sheepskin gauntlets to get me through the cold months on my old BMW R100, and they were far far far better than any 'modern' gloves I have had over the years in that they actually kept my hands warm and able to use the switch controls even on the coldest days - so I felt they were a good company to be associated with!!!
Happily, the brief was very simple. Kasey had particularly liked Little Queenie (prints are available!) and was keen to have a like-minded girl on a classic British bike as one of the images, and a guy as the other image. They were to be clothed in Goldtop gear needless to say, but that was fine as the gear is really iconic classic biker gear, and great quality.
So as you can see from these images the guy is something of an intense Rocker. Since all you can actually see of him is his eyes they needed to be quite striking, hence the icy blue to contrast with the warm skin tones. But even as I finished colouring up the original black and white line drawing I thought it still needed a little more punch so I played with another layer of colour beneath the black and got this slight bleed of red around the black keyline, which really gave it a lift.
The girl on a Norton I guess owes a lot to Little Queenie, but she is definitely a whole different girl. Equally as sassy though.
Anyway, the images went off to the client quite a while ago and I have been desperate to see what became of them, and I was keen to keep quiet about them until I knew the t-shirts had been printed. I know Kasey went to a lot of trouble sourcing good quality products and print for these and it is great to hear that they have now gone live on the Goldtop website.
Please go and have a look at www.goldtop.co.uk/tshirts
....and as a special offer to you my friends use of the code BRETT15 when making the order you will get a 15% discount!! I hope to see you all wearing them soon :-)
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