Wild Rabbit In A Woodland Clearing Coloring Page

A real rabbit in a real wood, drawn with none of the cartoon shortcuts. The animal crouches low in a clearing with its ears laid back, body compact and alert, and its coat built from thousands of short directional strokes that darken along the spine and fade toward the belly. Ferns grow up from the bottom left and right in fine toothed fronds, and the forest floor between them is carpeted with fallen leaves drawn individually, each with its own veins. Behind the rabbit the trees recede into the distance: thick trunks close by, slimmer ones further back, and dappled foliage across the top of the sheet. The depth in this picture is genuine and the way to keep it is to work in three bands, darkest at the front with the ferns and leaves, mid tone across the rabbit, and palest for the distant trunks. That alone creates the sense of a clearing. This is the most demanding sheet in the bunny group and the most rewarding to finish.