I've been ask to work in variations of this style on a few different contracts recently, and I'm having a lot of fun with it. I love distilling the subject matter down to just the bare personality. I based the general design on influences from frank frazetta's take on Conan. I threw on a simple rig so that i could pose him easily and I ended up going to 3d print with this as an experiment, to my surprise it came out well.