If I'm completely honest it's a combination of looking at types that are rare or haven't been done before, and I've got a bit of an obsession with filling out the type chart, even flipped ones (like Fighting/Flying and Flying/Fighting, which I retyped Staraptor to in the fan game these are all for). Then I look at the designs and see if I could see them being adapted to fit a certain type easily enough. The oldest ones (maybe Drifloon and Hoothoot, but definitely Togepi) all came from a Pokécommunity project where a certain type would be swapped to a different type, then I worked on their evolutions afterwards to fit in with them.
Aw, thanks for the kind words! I submitted the latest one to the Sword and Shield sprite project, and it was tweaked a bit (seemingly a bit less than the previous one, because this time I got the size right at least) and ultimately accepted with the edits in place! I definitely will end up doing more Gen VIII ones, it's strange but doing the sprites really gets me used to the new Pokémon. Now I love that one I did the sprite of yesterday. I might struggle with the later, more detailed ones though, if only because how I make these sprites with pixel overs (usually with the official art, but in the last case it was from the E3 screenshots). :)
There's some insight into the process, sorry for the walls of text. XD








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