His work was part of my introduction into the fandom as a teenager, and while some might say "Jeesh, some introduction." in regards to the nature of his work, I saw someone who enjoyed drawing. Someone who was having fun. I was drawing at that time, but not getting much support from.. Well, anyone. Neither family nor friends, everyone thought my anthros, which I was drawing before I knew about the fandom, were weird and dumb. It was sucking the enjoyment out of it and I might have stopped drawing altogether.
But Doug, Doug was drawing outrageous things and having a grand old time with it regardless of what some people might think of it. I saw his work and thought, "I wanna do that."
If not the same subject matter, I wanted to draw and have fun with it. And I do. Thank you, Doug.