Marik Ishtar x Karen Morgan

This is my 3rd work in the "Romance" series of pictures I'm doing for Yu-Gi-Oh! couples. It features Marik x Karen, our original character. Poor Marik certainly needed a love interest, (he's just too darn gorgeous not to have one! ) and we needed another female character for our fanfiction to be the "Green Eyes, Red Dragon" so.....Karen Morgan was born. She's a tough gal---intelligent, and inquisitive, but she's definitely not a "drooling" fan girl on Master Marik! No, indeed, it's quite the opposite and turns out that Marik-sama is the one to do the "chasing", though he would rather die than admit it! I tried many skintones on Marik for this picture, and though I had originally used the tones from the anime series, they seemed so dark and garish when printed out or just on the monitor. So, I brightened him up to have more "orangy" tan tones which seemed to suit him better. What do you think? Should I go back to the exact tones used in the anime or stick with these?