Forest Sprite Character

So before I go on with the rest of my 3rd year project (there's a lot of it to put up!!) here's a little character I've been working on as a side project along my other work. To begin with the biggest influence was the Kodama from the film 'Princess Mononoke' which are forest spirits:

They're creepy and strange but they also look cute as well. These were the first characters I looked at. I then looked at the Koroks from the game Zelda, the Pikmin from Pikmin, Totoro from My Neighbour Totoro and characters from Okami the game:

So I created a few designs based on these characters:

In the end I went with the bottom left design and developed it further. I though about how the spirit could be contained in an acorn and how that was it's heart, once broken the spirit would die. This would also be how it disappeared out of sight, falling to the ground just as an acorn. I liked this design so I also made a fire and ice version as well:

The Ice spirit's heart would be a snow flake while the fire one's would be a flame. However I felt I liked the forest one the most and decided to make a digital drawing for it:

This is the final design for this character, I had planned to do more concept design for her so I might do a few more digital drawings if I have time but we'll see :). I also plan to make a 3D model of her for my portfolio so we'll see how that goes. Thanks for reading :)