Eye of the Tiger

Drawing referenced from one of *HeWhoWalksWithTigers's photos [link]

This guy has done some incredible stuff for wildlife and the environment - you may have heard about the competition he was running a while back to help snow leopards, (and you may know how much I admire those cats ) but now is your chance to help him out in a comptetion of his own.
Simply watch this video [link]
Then, those of you with youtube accounts, rate it five to help him out
If you don't have a youtube account, then you can always make one...
read the news article [link] if you want to find out more, and remember to take a look at his photos

we can do it guys!

Drawn mostly with 2B, B, and HB mechanical pencils, and 2H and 4H pencils. Q-tips used for blending, and I also used a kneadable erasor to bring out some of the highlights. No indenting used in this one.
Drawn on A6 paper, so what you see on the screen is pretty much actual size. It took me about a week to do.

And yes, sorry for the slightly cheesy title - I'm saving 'Tyger, Tyger' for another one I hope to do in the future (if *HeWhoWalksWithTigers lets me use his wonderful photos again... )

entering this into *dsoden's contest [link]