Turoko and Tamo - Art Trade

Set up an art trade with Marika from the 'Mud about a month or so back and she asked me to do her characters Turoko and Tamo together. This is the results.... or the end results, it took me a while to get to a scanner for these two and in that time she changed Tamo's features a bit (namely the tuft of hair on her head) and changed the colors slightly, in Tamo's case drasticly (she was gray tones before) from what I was given.

Originally I thought I'd just go with my original sketch and the refs she gave me but in the end I really started liking the new Tamo and the colors of both looked to good to pass up. So this is the results. I went and decided to use a little bit of a lighting effect but only on one of the layers (base color of the characters) I think it made it turn out very well.