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Yeah, that's what I meant - take liberties with them, and make them look good, rather than accurate =D If a detail needs making up, make it up.

Good work on Vankolor! To improve on that, you should look at official pokemon sprites and learn how they do things. For instance, for each tone, you should use a light shade, a dark shade, a darker outline shade, and a highlight shade VERY sparingly on only polished pokemon (steel-types, bugs' carapaces, and the occasional lizard; never on fur).

For outlines, rather than this you should do this ; you're blending dark outlines with a lighter background (which is usually the case).

Try not to use the outline shade too much as a shading colour inside the pokemon, since it begins to look like a third shade and stops looking like pokemon style. A few bits here and there is reasonable.

Vankolor's belly could have done with a lighter shade on it, to show the form (the reason for shading in the first place). Is it a dull sphere, or a circular plane? We may never know.

And that brings me to my final point: again, don't be afraid to improve on the source material. Grubva's segment spacing is all over the place, because you followed the original images too closely. Similarly, it's clear from Stagre's sprite that you couldn't quite comprehend its form. Just make up better features!