ARTISTS ORIGINAL VERSION (DIFFERENT)

It's very late here so this description will be a bit of a ramble, I'll clean it up later when I'm less tired.

It's been over 2 years since I made my first rework of Thieu's general purpose body that brought out his robotic nature more clearly.

While the previous version go many things right, like the design of his cybernetics, colouration, short arms and massive wings, it also had it's flaws that gradually bugged me more and more as time drew on. Mostly these took the form of the stocky build and strange head shape, and overall just lack of elegance. I also decided I wanted to make a small tweak to the design, taking inspiration from  voxtheowl's adaptation of the feather-skirt real owls have into something that looks nice on an anthro.

From the moment I laid eyes on my first comission from  Kirossa, I was amazed how well she brought my character to life, how closely it resembled the version of Thieu in my head compared to the one on my reference. So when I finally decided to invest in a new reference, to encorporate the small tweaks I wanted to make the choice of artist was easy.

And I absolutely LOVE the result, the way you drew my sona is perfect!
Thank you so much  Kirossa <3