>>44008535The deep blue eyes, slender upper torso and general proportions are all traits those images were missing. For a design as simple as Espeon's, those things are important. Red jewel, split tail and eyes are pretty much the only immediately recognisable aspects of Espeon. When a third of them is missing, that's a lot.
I think they're cute enough though. Although its pretty furry, at least the artist didn't completely infect the design with shit-tier furryisms. Its just mildly infected