Jeeyar,You did a brilliant job of bringing life to two very personal characters /mascots for me. What is amazing is how quickly we got to the end product. In my experience, when that happens in the design world it is because one of two things happen:
1) The customer comes with a very open mind AND gives the artist free reign to interpret the creative brief in the eyes of the target audience.
2) The customer comes with a very detailed and specific idea of how they want to art to come to life AND the designer has the listening and collaboration skills to create what the customer envisions.

We created two characters, this first I had a very specific image in mind. The second you developed brilliantly knowing only the species, gender, age range and relationship to the first.

Thank speaks volumes about you and your work as a designer.
Thank You,
Eric