Of course, he's not carrying his trademark camera tied to a fishing pole. If he was, I would be suspicious.Flying type Diglett, definitely not inspired by Lakitu in any way.
iaza.com can make it transparent for you, just make sure that the background color doesn't appear in the sprite.
A ghostly bulbasaur :) Can anyone tell me how to make the background transparent?
If the choice were mine...I was going to wait to enter till later incase I got a better idea, but I like this one too much to wait.
Fire Raikou
Aww, thanks. =D It's true there's not a huge resemblance...It's less than half-Blaziken, actually. I'm pretty satisfied with the result, though.Merblaziken doesn't really look too much like Blaziken. Not to say that's a bad thing though. I quite like it.
Also, I concur with this idea. More than two of these entries deserve recognition.EDIT: Hey I just had an idea: as well as having a winner for the Best sprite, could there be other subcategories like "Most Original, Most Humorous" etc? They wouldn't have to have prizes, just a nice little mention of the sprites that aren't the est but are great in their own way.