Pepper Sky colored by Deb

Here is my rendition of the Pepper Sky lineart done by the wonderful `Artgerm. I absolutely love his work and wish I could draw half as well as he can. Maybe with tons of practice I could get there someday.
Pepper's happy expression in this sketch totally captured my attention so I just had to color it.

This is the first work I do with my Wacom tablet and my first finished attempt at coloring a face (I usually do landscapes). So any feedback, comments, critiques, pointers, or anything you have to say about it will be more than welcome.

The original sketch can be found here: [link]