By the time I saw the original version of this image, it has been between one and two months since I started watching the show and was my favorite fanart of Fluttershy for a time. I don't think I can fully remember why that was, but in an attempt to do so... If I remember correctly, most artists at the time emulated style of the show (I think this is still true for new MLP:FIM fan artists today) and though that is true for the original version of this picture, I think I may have seen it as an enhanced version of the show's style with shading and added detail to hair and that may have been why it stood out to me.



I'm not sure whether I could still say that the original version of this is still my favorite Fluttershy fanart (granted, seven years is a long time), but it definitely remains as among the more memorable ones for me; even though your style evolved with skill and transformed into something more original and interesting, I prefer the original over this perhaps strictly due to early Bronydom nostalgia.