Gaming, and I don't mean console!

In Illustration class, our instructor introduced us to Collectible Card Game, or gaming for short. He illustrates for the popular card game, Magic: The Gathering. The project he assigned was to illustrate, from a given description, the theme of the card. The list he gave us varied from guardians, to creatures, and spell cards. Some descriptions were trickier to illustrate than others. I settled on the description of the 'Pride Guardian', where a lion humanoid is guarding a gate. I really enjoyed this project even though it was kind of tough. The descriptions are well quite descriptive, but the challenging thing is composing it well enough that it reads on a card. And it's small. Here's my interpretation: