>>45119058It's a hell of a lot closer, also you made me look at Empoleon and it still has the spiky linework feathers around the feet which is interesting, birdmons don't have that anymore.
But uhh yeah, even in fanart the artists are often forced to change the proportions of the neck and upper arms. Because it literally does not work as a design that would appear on a living creature in real life otherwise, it doesn't jive with their training as artists. There are some which keep it basically the same but it's rare.
