To be honest, I got very lazy when I started on the *** portion and simply rushed it out.
And yea, I've this bad habit of randomly placing light sources. Actually, it wasn't meant to be shiny-looking but I always get carried away and give all my sprites a somewhat metallic/slimy texture.
Yea, I haven't touched Pokemon-style in ages. I can't find an acceptable sprite in my folder done in Pokemon style. My drawing style carried over to my spriting style, especially since most of my drawings have loads of detail (though sketchy).
I'm not very used to the Pokemon-style of spriting, since they only have at most 4 (excluding black) shades for each colour. I like detail a lot and it also makes the shading a lot more blended.
I'm actually quite surprised I haven't lost touch with spriting. I guess working with colour pencils a lot actually helps me improve in some ways. However, I doubt I'll have much time to make another sprite so soon. Takes nearly an hour to do one of these damned small things.