More Character Design for a Cute Butterfly

Today I spent my time working of making Buddy cuter. For one thing, he’s got too many legs — they clutter up the composition and he starts to look heavy instead of airy. I’m thinking of humanizing him the same as the other characters, with clothes, arms and legs. When he needs his wings, they’ll magically appear and become huge enough to carry a burro over a wall. The main consideration is making all of this anthropomorphic behavior believable.

Here are some of today’s sketches. Drawing “cute” is harder than I thought it would be.