Steampunk/Skybax Rider Esca

I think I need a tag named 'carmarthen made me do it', though I suspect sineala isn't entirely innocent either. So, second round of the ninth_eagle fanmedia challenge and I have picked a fusion with Dinotopia, a book I've never even read (but carmarthen has written a really lovely short Eagle/Dinotopia fic, and needs to write more!), and I suspect it won't make much sense to many other people. Um, Esca with his flying pterosaur mount, quite possibly horribly wrong and inaccurate.

The prompt (just pretend those dragons are actually badly-drawn pterosaurs, okay?):

( Esca, Skybax Rider )

Also, I promised ladytiferet I'd make more use out of my poor negelected sketchbook and draw her steampunk Esca. Oh man, once I get over my fear of screwing up everything with a few misplaced lines and panicking when I can't find cmd+z, I really, really love pencils. I should use them more than I currently do.

( Steampunk Esca (and Caesar finally gets his head) )