Ryoken surprised me with this back in late 2007, judging by the timestamp; however, I remember receiving this before I even had a Furaffinity account. This was the first image of my dragon ever that came even remotely close to capturing how he looked. I didn't have a lot of reference material, obviously, and as a surprise, he didn't really have any opportunity to go back and forth with me on the anatomy. In spite of that, he pretty much nailed it. I've simplified his ears - only three spars - and changed the base of his horns so that they have a base more like an eland (the skin doesn't climb the horn, and doesn't really envelope it at any point anymore), and I've put a lot more thought into the biology and lifestyle of dragons (his horns, to run with it, are horn-over-bone now, and filed blunt every year or so to protect his bedding), but this is where the vision really gelled in my mind for the first time.
