I've only been using Inkscape for 2 months now, and I am still feeling more at home in Photoshop than in Inkscape. I had made a pencil drawing of a bear some years ago and wanted to have a go at it with Inkscape. I used the pentool, not the bitmap tracing.
When my first niece or nephew was expected, I made a baby quilt for the baby's first Christmas. Instead of like ducks and bunnies, I decided to put endagered species, and one was a grizzly/brown bear like yours. (bear, eagle and tree patches) I had the hardest time getting the silhouette right....it kept looking like a pig instead of a bear, lol! This would have been a perfect template.