BG Re-design

In my minds eye I see her as a creature that attempts to follow typical attributes considered beautiful yet ended up sticking a toe into the uncanny valley.

In earlier concepts I think I relied more on having something as ordinary as a girl dressed up as a cheerfully naive butterfly feel completely out of place in the Dark Woods. You can take a look at the old pages from around 2006:

Looking back I realised my ideas for the Butterfly girl didn't come though in the design. And then I though, why settle on a mask...

...when a face full of butterflies would do...?

Side note: I was fiddling with the colour and was surprised by how this colour change impacted me. Maybe it's because I'm so used to the orange but for some reason I find the blue version to be extremely...unsettling. So much so I'm actually tempted to completely change BG's colour scheme (I am reluctant to do so for several reasons but I'm still considering playing with the colour after a final design)