The concept behind it was to do portraits of bears in the national outfits of the regions they inhabit. Many bears live in more than one region but I focused on their names and the places where the bear populations are higher. So:
Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus): Greenland (this one was the hardest because polar bears inhabit places that don’t usually have people in it lmao);
Brown Bear (Ursus arctos): Russia;
Panda Bear (Ailuropoda melanoleuca): China;
Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus): India;
Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus): Malaysia;
Spectacled Bear (Tremarctos ornatus): Peru;
Asian Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus): Tibet;
American Black Bear (Ursus americanus): United States.
I’m very happy to conclude this series after thinking about it for two years already.
edit (03/07/17): wew, 7k notes! thank you so much for everyone who is reblogging it, never did my art went around Tumblr so much! :O I wish my other art went around as much OTL I feel the need to address some comments I’ve seen in your tags. English is not my first language, and I was tired when I wrote the post, so when I wrote the comment about polar bears usually inhabiting desert places, I referred to the fact that they appear to live mostly in the center of the Arctic and I couldn’t find autochthonous people from the center of the Arctic. Looking at the autochthonous population from around the Arctic in the polar bear range map, the Greenlandic outfit picked my interest because of the design (the colors, patterns, etc.)– and, by the way, that is an Inuit outfit, actually! It’s from the Kalaallit Inuit that live in Greenland. However, I understand how my commentary could be interpreted that it meant that other indigenous people from North Canada and North Russia were not important or there– that was never my intention at all, I’m very sorry for the confusion.
