I spent a long time pestering friends to give me their opinions about my changing my 'sona design around, and this is what became of it. I didn't really settle on any one design as shown in my journal (as I knew I wouldn't), but chose to combine a few of them into something that, in my personal opinion, came out quite nicely.

Rhys (pronounced like "Reese") is modeled after a dressage-type Trakehner, which I have found to be extremely intelligent, willing, and tractable horses. I admire them for maintaining such grace and poise in all things, even when they're being complete goofballs.

I'm really not sure what to call this color. Originally, I planned on going with something more along the lines of a mahogany bay, but it seems as if this is edging toward the sooty buckskin example seen in my "revamp" journal. Whatever it is, I really love the color and I'm glad that it worked out this way. Grey-scale under-painting is a BEAUTIFUL technique and I'm so glad that it came out so well in my first attempt at it.

Now, if only I can get the anthropomorphic version to look this good...