Pridelands Axel

Any dedicated Axel fan has probably seen this already. The question is, have you seen it IN COLOR?! X3 I had one of those days when I wanted to color something but not draw, and I was also on a Kingdom Hearts/Axel kick, so I ended up doing a search for Axel. I found this wonderfully blank bit of lineart to color in all pretty, asked the artist for permission, and away I was.

The artist, by the way, is Hibbary, and the original lineart can be found here: [link]

It took a long time to finish, though. The flat colors got done pretty quickly, but when I'd had enough of Axel's mane burning my eyes into extra crispy bacon, I set it aside and didn't really pick it up again to shade it until a day or two ago.

Axel belongs to Disney/Square Enix/those guys.
Lineart/this particular Axel lion interpretation belongs to Hibbary.
Colors belong to me.