Magical, award winning imaginative fantasy illustration, eye level view, majestic dragon with lion body merging as a sphinx, scales gleaming under moonlight, enigmatic smile carved into its stone features, ancient desert temple in ruins, surrounding sand dunes, radiate heat, soft warm gold illumination, pencils, digital paintbrushes, airy watercolors, ethereal., Cinematic lighting, One Color, Dark Academia, RAW, Needle sharp by: James Gurney, Rashad Alakbarov
(Dragon  Sphinx:1.9), mystical guardian creature in ancient desert temple.