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polynothing aka joshua kemble is a 32 year old boy, has been a member since May 25, 2006, has scored 43,401 submissions, giving an average score of 0.79, helping 517 designs get printed.
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So, I recently completed over 100 illustrations for this book: Barbarians: A Handbook For Aspiring Savages, and Benjamin Chadwick, the author who co-wrote the book with real life Barbarian Grute Skullbasher, came up with a t-shirt concept. Since the book, I've been wanting to make a t-shirt design about barbarians, and think this is pretty funny.

The main concept is a barbarian in the typical pose used for fantasy posters, getting shocked by electricity.

Here's the first rough:
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Let me know if you guys would:
A. Find this funny.
B. Have any suggestions for what I should add, change, for the next stage of the design.

UPDATE:
Totally took your advice, and just made a rad barbarian shirt, with a pile of pop cultural rubble beneath him! Parody of every barbarian poster! Let me know what you guys think!
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xiv
   xiv on Aug 23 '11 at 7:23pm
I dont find it funny, but I do like it.

The cover is great:
Chengui
   Chengui on Aug 23 '11 at 7:26pm
Maybe it would be funnier if he was a thor-ish dude. Then the lightning is really ironic.
TheInfamousBaka
TheInfamousBaka on Aug 23 '11 at 7:29pm
Maybe just skip the trying to make it funny and just make it badass. You're good at that. :-)
polynothing
   polynothing on Aug 23 '11 at 8:36pm
Awesome! I've taken the feedback to heart, and will post a newer direction for the design shortly!
soloyo
soloyo on Aug 24 '11 at 8:03am
Yes, funny barbarian doesn't really works
soloyo
soloyo on Aug 24 '11 at 8:05am
maybe if he was sneezing the word Kazaam it would be kind of funny
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polynothing
   polynothing on Sep 09 '11 at 5:27am
Bump! Took Your Advice!
polynothing
   polynothing on Sep 09 '11 at 11:11am
:)
toopersent
toopersent on Sep 09 '11 at 11:16am
Looks great! Glad to see you are subbing again.
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