Gorilla Sitting With Her Baby Coloring Page

This is the heaviest drawing in the zoo group and it is built almost entirely from fur. Long tapered strokes cover the shoulders, arms, back and legs, running in the direction the hair falls, and they leave very few large open areas. That changes how you should approach it. Rather than filling shapes, lay a light tone over the whole body first and then build a darker one into the shadowed side, letting the drawn strokes do the work of texture. The face is the exception. It is smooth, with a heavy brow, a broad flattened nose, and a steady expression that gives the picture its weight. Against all that texture the infant sits upright on her chest, drawn with far smoother line work and a small worried face of its own, which makes it read instantly as the softer figure. Her hands and feet are large and clearly jointed at every knuckle. There is no background at all, so the animal floats on white and needs nothing behind it. Colored pencils suit this sheet. A marker will flood the fur strokes and lose them.