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Cleaning up the less related lizardmen here. The NES days present some difficulties in that their neon palettes need a bit of .. adapting.. but also their simple look can be a little tough to add anything to and retain recognizability. There's also the fact that their "official" art was pretty clearly unofficial at the time, even if some other artists referenced it later, so I try to let the sprites override in situations like this. That means Geru gets a tail and Daira doesn't, and their features are how the sprites look to me.
Also fitting these two on one canvas was hard, but this rigid presentation is totally a self-imposed challenge. Anyway I think the countershading on Daira looks great, and I was really satisfied with Geru's shape.. Still not 100% on that romanization really, it's geeru, so.. gehru? Gehl? Gale? even.. Gael.. like who knows. enemies from back then are so ignored, there's not going to be official romanized stuff on websites.

Description
Cleaning up the less related lizardmen here. The NES days present some difficulties in that their neon palettes need a bit of .. adapting.. but also their simple look can be a little tough to add anything to and retain recognizability. There's also the fact that their "official" art was pretty clearly unofficial at the time, even if some other artists referenced it later, so I try to let the sprites override in situations like this. That means Geru gets a tail and Daira doesn't, and their features are how the sprites look to me.
Also fitting these two on one canvas was hard, but this rigid presentation is totally a self-imposed challenge. Anyway I think the countershading on Daira looks great, and I was really satisfied with Geru's shape.. Still not 100% on that romanization really, it's geeru, so.. gehru? Gehl? Gale? even.. Gael.. like who knows. enemies from back then are so ignored, there's not going to be official romanized stuff on websites.