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First and foremost, the original lineart was both drawn by and color requested by and can be found here ---> [link]

It's Duran and Angela from Seiken Densetsu 3, which is part of the Mana series and was only released in Japan.

Hence why I had never heard of it before it was requested. I did some quick research on it and colored the two characters from their Light/Light form (which I didn't realized was discussed in the comments on the original). I did it by looking at game sprites - I'm actually amazed that I came to the same conclusion. So that means Duran is a Paladin and Angela is a Grand Divina.

Anyhow, I had nothing to go on for the sword, so I just went with gold hilt and a red jewel since those seems like staple combinations. I also wasn't sure what to do with the bulge around Duran's junk, so I colored it into a codpiece to break up a lot of that turquoise pant area.

As far as my work, I think I made improvements on coloring hair on Duran (not enough on Angela to make a real impact), but again discovered that I'm weak in large areas with no guidelines. Since I do somewhat of a bastardized cel shading, it's hard to find the right balance of highlight/midtone/shadow to make them not look like I just smear-tooled a bunch of colors together (which I do). Noteworthy areas where that shows through are Duran's pants and that sash coming off Angela's outfit.

The original pic had Duran's legs, but I chopped them considering that area wasn't really sketched out too much and that I did an awful job initially coloring the greaves so I figured it would be better to chop the image down than wreck it by having some garbage coloring down there.

Took about three and a half hours start to finish. Let me know what you think.

Description
First and foremost, the original lineart was both drawn by and color requested by and can be found here ---> [link]

It's Duran and Angela from Seiken Densetsu 3, which is part of the Mana series and was only released in Japan.

Hence why I had never heard of it before it was requested. I did some quick research on it and colored the two characters from their Light/Light form (which I didn't realized was discussed in the comments on the original). I did it by looking at game sprites - I'm actually amazed that I came to the same conclusion. So that means Duran is a Paladin and Angela is a Grand Divina.

Anyhow, I had nothing to go on for the sword, so I just went with gold hilt and a red jewel since those seems like staple combinations. I also wasn't sure what to do with the bulge around Duran's junk, so I colored it into a codpiece to break up a lot of that turquoise pant area.

As far as my work, I think I made improvements on coloring hair on Duran (not enough on Angela to make a real impact), but again discovered that I'm weak in large areas with no guidelines. Since I do somewhat of a bastardized cel shading, it's hard to find the right balance of highlight/midtone/shadow to make them not look like I just smear-tooled a bunch of colors together (which I do). Noteworthy areas where that shows through are Duran's pants and that sash coming off Angela's outfit.

The original pic had Duran's legs, but I chopped them considering that area wasn't really sketched out too much and that I did an awful job initially coloring the greaves so I figured it would be better to chop the image down than wreck it by having some garbage coloring down there.

Took about three and a half hours start to finish. Let me know what you think.