Angry Bear Study

I scanned in a Preston Blair study sketch I did yesterday and overlapped it with Preston's original drawing. John K. recommended doing this direct comparison on his blog, so I thought I'd give it a shot. It's easy to see why he recommends it, because it makes the faults in my drawing ultra-obvious.

The ears are too small, with the right one attached in the wrong spot. His right eye needs to come in and down a little bit. His jowls are too droopy and the left side is attached too low. The bear's nose is angled incorrectly and the snout's shape is slightly off and the perspective is ruined because of those mistakes. The mouth, hair and left eye are very close. In general, though, my bear is too flat and needs to be more 3-dimensional.