omg! look what I found!

I was looking for some photos on my flash drive and found these old sketches from an on-going project (which has stalled).  These are two character sketches I did at least almost 5 years ago.

It bums me out a bit because I have versions of these that are further along (and a sketch of another character), but they're on a hard drive that's busted.  Also bums me out that I'm pretty out of practice and am not at the level I was when I did these two sketches.

Anyway, I'd like you to meet some friends of mine:

Iris

Yan

I'm trying to figure out what to tag this as.  I've gone through a few working titles already: Purple Night Skies, Dreamwalkers.  I think I'll just give it a code name for now...  How about project Apricot?  I'll just make my way through this list of fruits.