Neanderthal Face in Colored Pencil

This is a small sketch of a Neanderthal man’s face which I colored using my old colored pencils. Descended from a subset of Homo heidelbergensis which migrated into Eurasia from Africa during sometime during the Middle Pleistocene, the Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) would have evolved a number of adaptations to their cold northern environment (e.g. stocky physiques with proportionately short limbs) while the ancestors of modern humans (Homo sapiens) still enjoyed the hotter climates of Africa.