Hiraku and Mariko color concept

These are my first color ideas for Hiraku and Mariko. I will leave it up to Eileen to decide what the final colors will be. I work in Adobe RGB because it's more accurate for printing where everything looks more saturated and contrasting until I upload it to sRGB where it gets desaturated and less contrasting but you get the basic idea. Hiraku is a modernized character, further detached from nature so I wanted him to have cooler colors and somewhat more neutral to show that he is growing up. Mariko has very earthy colors and very bright and saturated; typical of young children's clothing but this also helps to tell the story that she is a more energetic and closer related to the land that she lives in.

It helps visualization to put them in the same space:





I'm not much of a colorist but this is the first rough color idea that I had in mind for Hiraku.