This time I got the colors where I like them without any color balancing or curve editing, just out the box
I find that when working with smaller color palettes, it's okay to push things to 100% (value & saturation), at least for my taste.
I also smoothed out my brushwork on the character, as I'll be trying to do more often, trying to find that line between visible brushwork and just messy brushwork that I feel I was falling into