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Stick it to the Fisherman

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May 27 '08
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Orcsbane

About my design

by Orcsbane
Save your brethren from the tyranny, Master Fish!

Because of the gradient it will probably have to be simulated process.

Hope you like it!
lilobee3191
lilobee3191 on May 27 '08
OOO so cool! it's like.."revenge of the fish" he's like.."heck no, u can't catch me foo!"

Can't tough this fish! *hammer time music plays*
lilobee3191
lilobee3191 on May 27 '08
OOO so cool! it's like.."revenge of the fish" he's like.."heck no, u can't catch me foo!"

Can't touch this fish! *hammer time music plays*
littlecynicism
littlecynicism on May 27 '08
Normally I wouldn't even think about buying something like this, but you've designed it so well. Good quality illustration makes almost any concept look good. Keep up the good work.
switch22
switch22 on May 27 '08
sweetness...frickin awesome shirt
shokat
shokat on May 27 '08
SICK NASTY.



The colors are pleasant and the illustration is appropriate for the theme ... humorous, too. I want one, but I'm broke.
jplove
jplove on May 27 '08
I think fish, especially this style/kind are overdone. I like your color choice, but the design doesn't excite me.
afishcalledmanda
afishcalledmanda on May 27 '08
good stuff ;)
txcait05
txcait05 on May 28 '08
Fish are a little overdone, but as a fisher...woman... I rather enjoy this! $5
Orcsbane
Orcsbane on May 28 '08
thanks!
Afromation
Afromation on May 28 '08
Great work $5
magenter
magenter on May 28 '08
Lovely!
Deodand
Deodand on May 29 '08
In the last couple of days there have been a lot of fish designs. It's going to be a tough go.
english garden
english garden on May 29 '08
There may be a lot of fish ideas, but this is EXTREMELY well designed. I love the concept and will buy it immediately.
DivineAna
DivineAna on May 29 '08
I caught a tremendous fish

and held him beside the boat

half out of water, with my hook

fast in a corner of his mouth.

He didn't fight.

He hadn't fought at all.

He hung a grunting weight,

battered and venerable

and homely. Here and there

his brown skin hung in strips

like ancient wallpaper,

and its pattern of darker brown

was like wallpaper:

shapes like full-blown roses

stained and lost through age.

He was speckled and barnacles,

fine rosettes of lime,

and infested

with tiny white sea-lice,

and underneath two or three

rags of green weed hung down.

While his gills were breathing in

the terrible oxygen

--the frightening gills,

fresh and crisp with blood,

that can cut so badly--

I thought of the coarse white flesh

packed in like feathers,

the big bones and the little bones,

the dramatic reds and blacks

of his shiny entrails,

and the pink swim-bladder

like a big peony.

I looked into his eyes

which were far larger than mine

but shallower, and yellowed,

the irises backed and packed

with tarnished tinfoil

seen through the lenses

of old scratched isinglass.

They shifted a little, but not

to return my stare.

--It was more like the tipping

of an object toward the light.

I admired his sullen face,

the mechanism of his jaw,

and then I saw

that from his lower lip

--if you could call it a lip

grim, wet, and weaponlike,

hung five old pieces of fish-line,

or four and a wire leader

with the swivel still attached,

with all their five big hooks

grown firmly in his mouth.

A green line, frayed at the end

where he broke it, two heavier lines,

and a fine black thread

still crimped from the strain and snap

when it broke and he got away.

Like medals with their ribbons

frayed and wavering,

a five-haired beard of wisdom

trailing from his aching jaw.

I stared and stared

and victory filled up

the little rented boat,

from the pool of bilge

where oil had spread a rainbow

around the rusted engine

to the bailer rusted orange,

the sun-cracked thwarts,

the oarlocks on their strings,

the gunnels--until everything

was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!

And I let the fish go.

Jakeg1116
Jakeg1116 on May 29 '08
awesome 5$
Orcsbane
Orcsbane on May 29 '08
that poem fits perfectly, i've not heard it
ckyrckr
ckyrckr on May 31 '08
That's awesome, the drawing and what you took in consideration for the design. You used more than one hook, brilliant and you placed him on the bottom of the t shirt. Good job kid.
Orcsbane
Orcsbane on May 31 '08
Thanks, kid.
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