Contest Entry - Colored Taiko

Uploaded for coloring contest. We were asked to color her lineart of her (ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE ;A; <3) OC Taiko, and try to guess what the colors to the original OC were.

Taiko is the cutest little thing on this earth, and dear god do I love her bell pigtails <3

I had so much fun with this, and I tried REALLY HARD with the shading. Although I still feel I failed miserably..._{and did NO justice to this OC. OTL} Have to say though, lookin' better than my other stuff >___>;

I really don't know why I picked these colors, but everytime I saw those bows I kept pulling out red and green. The yellow came much later, when originally I was gonna color the bows purple and then use yellow as a complimentary color and split it afterwards...but I think I like this much better. I don't know about her hair though. I think I should've stuck with black. OTL Oh well, what's done is done, and once the real colors are revealed, I'll see if I can correct them.

Anyways, I am liking that background though. I found some cool Sakura petal brushes that I could lightly dab in the canvas. So cool. <3 The FX on the text was also really cool! ^^
_{*was totally listening to Meltdown while coloring this.... >>; <<;}

BTW DAYO I WANT TO DRAW TAIKO NAO THANKS >8I xD

Taiko and lineart c)
Coloring c) Me