2010.

Here is my half of an art trade with Skywolf2244.deviantart.com. This is a digital painting. I used her fairly open-ended request for a snow leopard with a diamond-shaped blue pendant as an opportunity to practice and explore a little with technique. I used a photo from the Wikimedia Commons as a reference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_leopard

I am really rather unhappy with how the very simple background looks in comparison to the subject, but unfortunately I accidentally painted the whole thing right on the background (didn't realize until I was so far underway it was too late), and changing the background AROUND something is much harder than just changing it behind something when it is a layer. Anyway, despite my difficulties, IT WAS GOOD PRACTICE!