Jan's Judgement

Commission Time! A client in the states asked me to take on and paint a new pair of characters that Judgement has brought out – The Goblin Twins Bale & Sarna.
In game, while they are technically two characters and two models that can eb moved and used independently of each other, they count as a SINGLE choice for your team. There are other rules esp as to how they can respawn when killed but thats another story.

Bale (the angry looking fella) and his sister Sarna (the tweaked out looking lass) are part of the future story thread in Judgement. Judgement has a full running storyline and narrative that goes with that has multiple interweaved side threads and stories for the characters.

Cyberpunk Goblins……….. a new one on me but rock on! Cyberpunk is an aesthetic and trope that I really like but havent painted a lot of minis of. So I wanted to do them in a convincing and cyberpunk aesthetic while staying true to my more grimdark and dirty stylings.

They are quite different characters and personalities however they are both siblings and a team so I needed to include some homogenous elements b/t them while allowing them to stand as individuals characters.
I decided to tie them together with their armour and also their power sources/effects.

With Bale I decided to use an airbrish to do the basic initial workup for his armour. I dont really use my airbrush beyond priming but thought twould be a good opportunity to try and level up and push myself.

I went in with a light dirty grey off white as the base colour and then add in anthracite/blue grey shadows before sketching in some highlights with a brighter off white. I rarely use true white or true black on my minis: reserving those two shades for ultimate shadows or ultimate light reflective highlights.

Was very happy how the armour was coming along but it was jsut waaaaaaay too clean and pristine a loook for me so I thinned down (a lot) some secret weapon armour weash and glazed it onto his armour from the midtones back and then sponged on the scraps, damage and chips using smokey ink (not an ink) from Vallejo GC.

To go with the cool armour I went with a grey blue skin colour.

His energy points i went classic with a glowing pale blue using makeup brushes, glazes, makeup brushes, glazes etc to gradually build up the glows and a restained amount of OSL.

With Sarna I was able to bring more colour in as she doesnt wear as much armour as her brother. So black for her body suit to contrast with the few white armour plates (which tie her to her brother).  I still had a lot of elements on Sarna to work so I decided on using a triadic arrangement after having a look on the colour wheel. Basically  a violet, jade~ish green and dirty yellow. Green for pads and half hat, violet purple for her skin tones and yellowbrown on the boots straps.
I did her under suit in the same red as I used for Bale’s undersuit to further tie them together.

Finally I used the same workup and colours for Sarna’s power elements as I had used on her brother.

These two were an absolute joy to work on and again I really felt they helped me level up, expand my range and try new things.
As ever they were tough to pack up and send off to the client as I had grown VERY attached to them and was quite proud of the resulting pieces buuuuuuut that’s the joy of commissions!!