This watercolor piece was crafted based on the prompt of creating humanoid characters inspired by animals of the Brazilian fauna. My personal choice was to create an “Insect Kingdom”, ruled by butterflies. The butterflies (specially the queen) are based in the Cithaerias phantoma, the “ghost butterfly” present in the rainforest. Hence why they have multiple eyes in their bodies, instead of their faces. In the scene of the painting, the butterfly people are meeting a knight and messenger of the grasshopper people (based in the Titanacris albipes species of grasshoppers), willing to make a deal.