Goblins & Grommarg: «Hunting the ogre»







Model 1: Grommarg the Ogre 
Company: Big Child creatives 
Scale: 32 mm



Model 2: Goblin lancers
Scale: 28 mm


Story: During the VII edition of the Leganés Miniature painting Contest in Madrid, I bought a great miniature at BigChild stand: "Grommarg the ogre". I inmediately fell in love with such a dynamic and well defined miniature, full of muscles, pure fantasy! I really took it without thinking how I would paint it. 
A few months later I realized that such mini full of movement, needed a partner, someone who could fight against. Internet showed me some examples of goblins and other criatures, I chose "Lancer goblins" by Gamezone. These metallic and small scuptures have a great expresion on their faces, quite evil, isn´t it?


Testing composition, looking for the minimum space:


All these miniatures remind me the great work of some famous illustrators as Paul Bonner, who usually works with goblins and ogres. I revised deeply his work, getting some ideas I decided to add a castle ruins or something like that. It would be the beginning of a funny sculpting work. It started with a plastic bottle and some milliput.



Breaking the wood base, looking for different levels with a sewer. I made a hole and covered it with clip-wires:



Adding some pieces of real wood, taken from a fruit box:



Adding milliput little by little:




This is getting really funny and taking a good aspect, some sand and small rocks:



Primer and positioning the main character:



At this point sketching is really helpful, allowed me to choose better colors defining lights and shadows from the beginning:



Profiling the edges and adding colors little by little, I worked by mixing two main colors: violet and yellow, complementary colors, getting interesting browns.



Defining the focal point with some red and NMM blue:






Finally I added the 3 goblins, using a basic palette combined as the same way as the base, I wanted the ogre as the focal point of the scene, for that reason I aplied to him quite different colors (red and blue for example):





You can see here how I got all the work only with a very basic palette:

Testing composition:



Four months later:




Let's go with some water effects:
Aplying some still water using plastic and tape.

Final photos:




At least as, a photographic project it got a good position on Coolminiornot and puttyandpaint:



















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