[Talk] How can I improve, and learn how to sprite?

[Ace Trainer Slash]

Hi! :)

So, very recently, I've been working on a ROM Hack, and I've been teaching myself how to sprite, as far as I've gotten, I only know how to do recolours, for shiny Pokemon and stuff. I want to create Fakemon however, but I'm terrible at spriting, I tried a scratch sprite a long time ago... I don't want to talk about that one... But I decided to pick it up again, since I've seen how Game Freak uses pixels in their sprites by recolouring them.

To show off what I've learnt from this, I created a design/Pokemon that involves symmetry, and the use of curved lines, and some sort of depth. It is a ceramic pot with melting eyes and a flame. It's not done yet.

I'll post two of my shiny sprites, and my custom one from recently. Please do tell me what I need to improve in, my custom sprite is a sketch to show my abilities in spriting, so its not that good, while my shiny recolours are made seriously in mind with the choice of colour. Please tell me what I need to fix. :)