Shiny reduxes
Custom shiny Leafeon and Glaceon I made that you can easily tell apart from their normal versions.
For Leafeon, I was inspired by fallen leaves during mid-autumn for the coloring of the leaves, inner ears, paws and eyes. The hue of the body was left unchanged from the official shiny.
For Glaceon, there was no specific inspiration. The color values between my version and the original should be mostly the same, but the hue being purple makes it a little more unique.
My simplest reduxes so far… They're not so much reduxes as they are a minor improvement (a MINIOR improvement). TL;DR: shiny Minior if it reflected the core’s original color, alongside a slightly edited version of this fanmade sprite’s official shiny. (Rainbow variants of said fansprite were later created, haha…)
Two variants of Cosmog. The first attempt was meant to be close to the non-shiny palette yet visibly shiny as I lacked ideas at the time. It is a bit brighter than a non-shiny Cosmog and has its yellow parts replaced with the peachy hues of the official shiny's cheeks.
And then I had an epiphany.
Keeping the peachy body parts, the body was then… “vertically hue-shifted”, meaning I reversed the order of the colors (pink at the top, blue at the bottom), but also modified them a little to lean on the pink side.
{On an unrelated note, these are the only fansprites to come from a different source as the others, so please check them out here.}
Custom shiny Solgaleo and Lunala I made because I disliked their jarring red palettes. (At least with Lunala, you could argue it is the representation of a blood moon, but what about Solgaleo?)
Solgaleo now has a very sun-like coloring, with its yellow body and its orange paws and abdomen. I kept the purple accents and the blue tail mirrors its face. These accents exist to create contrast and to link it to its other half, Lunala.
The space bat in question was a bit more based on personal aesthetics. However, I tried to keep the “contrast and link to its other half” idea by not getting rid of the yellow in its design (instead moving it to its inner wings), choosing a shade of pink that was close to red, and making its chest brighter. The purple and mint, being cold colors, serve as a reminder that Lunala represents the night.