Grizzly Bear Head Portrait Coloring Page
A front-facing grizzly portrait built almost entirely from fine fur strokes, a slow and detailed adult sheet.
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Fur is what this portrait is made of. The bear's head and shoulders fill the sheet, drawn straight on, and almost every line on the page is a single short stroke of coat. They radiate outward from the muzzle across the cheeks, stand up in a ruff around the jaw and throat, fringe the top of the skull and bristle out of both ears. There is no outline holding the head in; the silhouette is made by where the strokes stop.
Inside that, the features are drawn with restraint. Two narrow eyes sit deep under heavy brows, the muzzle is a smooth tapering shape, and the nose is the one solid dark mass on the page, a broad triangle with two nostrils cut into it.
The expression is level and direct rather than fierce, which is a harder thing to draw and makes the page feel like a study rather than a cartoon.
This is an adult sheet. Flat color will fight the line work, so it wants light directional shading built up in the same direction as the strokes. Done that way it holds a surprising amount of depth for a page with no shading printed on it at all.
