9” x 11.5” color pencil
 
This piece is currently being auctioned off on my FA page “teiirka” Auction ends sept 21 2019
 
I sketched and started coloring this piece at MFF in 2013 then it got set aside till now. Cropped the upper background which I hated, then finished it up, although now I see a couple thing I want to touch up so it should look a bit better in a bit.  
This image is from a photo but is pretty true to color.
 
There was a story started to go with this piece but don’t know where it went. It’s kind of a transformation thing. She was a beloved human queen once but during a coup, a terrible magic was unleashed to kill her human bodyguards as well as her beloved leopard companions. It slowly dessolved them as if doused by acid but the queen rushed to aid and comfort the female of the leopard pair and subsequently was affected by the magic also. The wielder of the dragon gem in which the magic emanated, in a panic, commanded the jewel to heal the queen but she and the leopard had already begun to dessolve alive. While still embracing the leopard, the magic hit once more and blindly did what was commanded but recognizing the two as one, it reformed both back into a single form using all that they were before, mind, body, and soul. She was then exiled to a small island and chained by magic. The people of her realm thought her dead, but she existed there awaiting rescue.