This is my newest creation, available from www.muddyground.com for the price of £24.95. Out of all my designs, I really, really like this one!
Must admit to having taken my eye off the ball for some time. We've had the builders' in for a year, and the house has been in chaos. 2013 was also a very bad year for t-shirt sales, so I got a little depressed over the whole Muddy Ground as a shop thing. There's also the element of my liking this design, but other people not getting the idea. Even now, with the finished article in front of me, I have doubts. But then designing these things you do really wear your heart on your sleeve sometimes.
However, it's a simple design and my key indicators - my children - like this one. If a design sucks, they'll say.
Here we have the infamous Leith Hill, in Surrey. It's a key ride point for both road cyclists and mountain bikers. Unintentionally I've managed to produce a design that caters for both camps. Leith Hill itself is shown as a brooding, Mt Fuji type mountain - and hence the Japanese text. The intention here, especially in doing the mountain as a line drawing, was to re-create those original Antarctic exploration images you see in old accounts of explorer adventures. The town could be anywhere; Dorking or Cranley, you chose. As for the colours, well I've always been a fan of the Gulf Oil 917 so used similar.....
It's just a bit of fun, a homage to the area that I've grown to love. And for 2014 my USP is going to be.... Limited production runs.
Must admit to having taken my eye off the ball for some time. We've had the builders' in for a year, and the house has been in chaos. 2013 was also a very bad year for t-shirt sales, so I got a little depressed over the whole Muddy Ground as a shop thing. There's also the element of my liking this design, but other people not getting the idea. Even now, with the finished article in front of me, I have doubts. But then designing these things you do really wear your heart on your sleeve sometimes.
However, it's a simple design and my key indicators - my children - like this one. If a design sucks, they'll say.
Here we have the infamous Leith Hill, in Surrey. It's a key ride point for both road cyclists and mountain bikers. Unintentionally I've managed to produce a design that caters for both camps. Leith Hill itself is shown as a brooding, Mt Fuji type mountain - and hence the Japanese text. The intention here, especially in doing the mountain as a line drawing, was to re-create those original Antarctic exploration images you see in old accounts of explorer adventures. The town could be anywhere; Dorking or Cranley, you chose. As for the colours, well I've always been a fan of the Gulf Oil 917 so used similar.....
It's just a bit of fun, a homage to the area that I've grown to love. And for 2014 my USP is going to be.... Limited production runs.
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