I've been working on lots of other work this past week and went home for the weekend to visit my parents (since I won't be seeing them for quite a while again).

I started playing with some of the toon shader effects in Maya and found some cool results with the "light based shader" or LBS (as seen below). I will continue to play around with the LBS and the toon outline until I find some results that really suit my needs and design direction.