Smiling Sloth Face Close Up

One face, blown up until it touches all four edges, and nothing else. The head is nearly circular and a halo of spiky fur runs right around it, drawn as short triangular points rather than fine strokes, which makes the outer edge quick to color and hard to get wrong. Inside, the features are laid out with real clarity: two large eyes with round pupils and a white highlight left in each one, dark patches sweeping back from them across the cheeks, a wide rounded nose with two nostril curves, and a long gentle smile beneath. The patches around the eyes arrive solid, so they are fixed, but they also do half the work of the expression. Everything else is open paper. That makes this the best sheet in the group for a very young child, since there are only five or six areas to fill and every one of them is large. It also makes a good quick print for a classroom, where twenty children can each finish one in a single sitting.