A golden cheetah sits centered against a deep teal background, its gaze direct and unflinching toward the viewer. Black spots pattern its muscular frame while a cream-colored belly provides contrast, rendered in a bold, graphic style with clean shapes and a calm, illustrative sensibility. 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.