I've been working on drawing more human characters lately; here is the vs sprite for your rival:

See if you can figure out what's on her shirt before I finish the full-body sprite!
I also went back and redesigned the pre-evolution of Urfin:

Sandol is a Water-type, and is based on a sand dollar.
Some lore (taken from Pokédex entries I've written): because it has no eyes, it triangulates locations by taste, using its five mouths. Its mouths appear far deeper than its thin body should allow.
jeez all your pokemon look like they could be in pokemon sun and moon
Thanks! I do try to emulate the Pokémon style as much as I can, although it could also mean that the official Pokémon are starting to look more like fakemon...
I have actually had a few close calls; I was considering designing a koala fakemon before Komala was revealed, and Grubbin is uncomfortably close name-wise to both Shrubbin and Grubble, as well as looks-wise to a scrapped pre-evolution for the electric atlas beetle in my "old pixels" section.
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