Mother Sloth Carrying Her Baby

Two sloths, one pose, and a lot of fur to work with. The mother hangs from a branch at the top of the page by both arms, her long body dropping straight down the middle, and her baby clings crosswise against her chest with its own small arms wrapped around her. Both animals are covered in long tapered fur strokes that follow the direction the coat falls, dense on the mother and finer on the infant. That texture is already doing the shading for you, so the best approach is a single light tone laid over the whole coat with a second darker tone worked only into the edges and the gaps between the two bodies. Both faces look straight out with shaded eye patches and round noses. Broad leaves fan out behind and below them, wide and pointed with clear ribs, filling the lower half of the sheet and giving plenty of green to balance all that brown. Colored pencils suit the fur far better than markers, which will flatten the strokes into a solid block.