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Excuses get you nowhere.
Anyways what I recommend is that you practice and study a few pokemon sprites to get the style down, pokemon style is very simplistic and almost anybody can do it with a little perseverance.
On the 4th one, the lightning bolts are off of Raichu (end of tail). The shading and shapes are horrible, even if you are new to this. You stole someone else's title which is VERY bad, and making excuses are bad, and make you look bad.