Colored Pencil (Background: colored pencil over pastel base layer.)
9x12 Uart 500 paper

Reference Photo: Unleash.com

Tiger at Sedgwick County Zoo

16 x 20 Pastel Pencil and Pastels

(Polychromos, Luminance, & Prismacolor Pencils, plus
Rembrandt Pastels for bits of background)
UART 500 Sanded Paper

My own reference photo.
August 2018