The Dark Judge Rises Coloured.

Street Judges find the recently escaped Judge Death just as he starts to rises from his toxic green tub of ‘Dead Fluids’.

And so here’s The Dark Judge Rises in colour.

Mega City Judges and Judge Death have a very particular look that’s been around for ages, which I very much had to keep in mind while colouring this pin-up. I knew I wanted to get the look and colours just right. I’ve always secretly loved that dirty lime green colour they sometimes use for the Judge’s boots and gloves. Or the fact a Judge’s visor is arched and red, so Judges always look angry. I do think both are a design classic.

Even though this is Judge Death emerging fresh and new in this image in a new dead body and custom, I still wanted his outfit to look a little tattered and washed out. I also loved colouring his pads and accessories in that horrible murky sand colour. You know a character is evil, when they wear double-ended witch fingers on their elbow.

The ‘DANGER’ font was actually taken from a real danger sign I found and photographed while out on a hike last summer. If you look carefully, you can see where the rust has started to eat into the letters (I love that kind of effect). I was saving it for a future pin-up, but it just seemed to go so well with this image.

I’ve had the urge to do a slime bases pin-up for a while now, so it was fun to finally get to play around with that, and draw dripping slime. Green slime always makes monsters scarier.

I also think there’s something a little creepy about people getting out of the bath (think Room 237 and the old lady in The Shining). I kind of think he also looks a bit like a vampire popping out his coffin at sunset.