Insect Family

I had a brief instructing me to create a family of insects, I decided to make a mother, father and Baby in this family.
When thinking about the mother I looked at ladybirds, them being the stereotypical female insect. I wanted her to be a kind looking character.

For the father, I wanted a tall kind of character, a praying mantis was my first idea for it as I liked the eyes which could be drawn as glasses, this gave me the idea for father figure. I had trouble drawing the mouth area so I decided that giving the character was a good replacement for what I couldn't draw and it also worked nicely with the father figure look.
For the baby, I thought about what could be considered a baby in an insect perspective. The two ideas I had were a caterpillar or a maggot, the maggot didn't seem like a good idea because it didn't seem cute enough to be a baby character so I went for the caterpillar. 

I used the caterpillar on this image as reference when I was struggling with the caterpillar legs.