A sinuous orange snake coils across a cream ground, its body patterned with coral stars and detailed scales rendered in soft geometric forms. The creature wears a golden crown atop its head and gazes forward with a single bright eye, rendered in a whimsical illustrative style that balances decorative patterning with playful character. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.