Spriggan masks..HELP NEEDED F-LIST!!

[merimask]

Well, I finished my newest mask, Spriggan, and I'm pretty happy with it. 
   
I did it three times, with three different shapes, and I did it in green leaves as well as autumn leaves.   This is meant to be a theatrical mask, for wearing, and constructive crit is VERY welcome as I have to pick the best of these three for an important project.

The first mask:
narrowly shaped & green.
viewed from above...
viewed from the side.
Below is the second mask.
Splayed & green.
from the side.
Below is the third mask.
Narrowly shaped & autumn-colored.
Viewed from the side.

Here's the tricky part...this is meant for stage theatrics & needs to look good on a person, from a distance.  I personally think the ones that sweep back (#1 and #3) are the most dramatic & easiest to wear & move in.  Charlotte modeled for me.  Take a look:
number 1...
number 2...
number 3.

I need help picking ONE, because now I don't know which is more striking; the autumn color or the green?

Comments

[indigos-angel.livejournal.com]

I like the green, because it's WAY EASIER to make out the color difference. I've got a hard time seeing the autumn leaves just on my computer, never mind from a distance on the stage.

Honesty, I like the long look of the first mask, and the way it goes so far back on the second. I don't know if doing that on one mask would make it look too big... but I think that would look great. #1 has a more regal look to it, longer faces are generally imo stereotyped as more regal... along the same lines as great bone structure. The side view of #2 just looks way more complete and looks like a fantastic costume, the side view of #1 looks lacking in completeness in comparison.

Hope that helps!

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :-) The input helps because I'm TOO close to this mask & it's hard to judge it objectively.

The long, narrow face is what I was going for. Even though my drawing was all splayed out with the twigs in a fan shape, I knew that was just how the pattern was going to look, & the actual mask would be more streamlined & sinister. But you never know just how it'll work til you build it (and for me that's the MOST fun...it's always a surprise).