Gen1 Pokémon sprite style, I was inspired by this video

You can see where I copied the hands (the one in front is from the biker and the one in back is from the player character/Red)
If I'm matching styles... I mean at least I know it's style accurate
I forgot to mention in another pixel art I did but there's sections here & there that were identical (I went back and edited it to add that info a while back but it wasn't there when I posted, I mean)
Part of it was because I was trying to emulate the artstyle(s)- and pixel art is kinda limited & part of it was because it was really good matches. And in the case of this I was not doing that outstretched hand on my own, are you kidding me?
the pose here is very similar to the one that was in my head for whenever I make him a new reference- which is why what I used here was a good fit. (the one in my head his arms are at a slightly different angle and he's standing up straight but we adjust for the occasion)

I did do Lake but I didn't like him. I started with Kristian and Kitty but I'm not finishing those either. I feel like Suchai best works in this palette anyway (the purple/orange I mean, but he works better for simple palettes in general since his design's fairly simple already)
I need to get back to doing that series of drawing Lake and Suchai in various styles. There were more I wanted to do. This doesn't count as part of that series. This is just me learning pixel art.