>>24785423Sugimori has confirmed in an interview that when he was creating the actual official artwork he first had the sprites to go off from and he then changed features he didnt like about each pokemon
Here's gastly for example, do you really think they didnt make his sprite a black sphere "due to restrictions"? Obviously not, gastly was originally just smoke with a face, the sphere came later once sugimori tweaked the design while creating the official artwork
