I'm trying to do more pixel art and expand on what I can do, but I honestly have no ideas. So I'm doing requests for a while to see if I can expand on what I know how to do! Feel free to ask me to do pretty much any kind of pixel art. I can't do animations, nsfw or tiles [what you walk on or see in a gen 1-5 overworld, like the Poke Center tiles] but you're free to request pretty much anything else. {Yes, I know I'm also doing this in my shop. Difference is the shop has completed art sent by private PM and won't take things like trainer sprites or non-Pokémon. I'm hoping to practice and eventually include trainer sprites in the future.}
I like both of them. It was clever that you decided to add some sort of shine to the second one, it makes it look more alive.