"The Elves And The Shoemaker" Character Development

Over the past two weeks i have been designing characters as part of the Picture Book course i am attending. We have to select a fairytale story and re-design a main character. The story i picked was "The Elves And The Shoemaker," i loved that story when i was growing up, the thoughts of Elves which came to help in the middle of the night was very believable to me!! I decided to re-design the main Elf character. I played around with many idea's of what she could look like and what style would be used to draw her. For inspiration i looked towards the amazing Disney artist Mary Blair, the brains behind the design of "It's A Small World" and the feature film's of "Peter Pan" and "Alice In Wonderland."

Here are some of the character development sketches I've created, (sorry the photo quality isn't that great) :