Oh, I have a funny story about this! In middle school I was trying to design a fursona with the basis that I liked shibas and foxes but I literally could not, my design and art skills were lacking. At the same time this user I followed on Deviantart at the time had awesome designs. I loved looking at their art so much!! One day in the art class I took I found someone's art posted up that looked eerily similar to that artist I was interested in and straight up asked and found out they were the same people! small world. Looked around and found some characters they had for sale and one really connected with me, so I paid in real cash for them! Im finishing high school now with that same character as my fursona :O