Style Evaluation (Formerly: Non-Sonic Sprites)

[Vipershark]

Again,most of my post was aimed at Gorsal,as it really seemed like he was trying to make the shading on his Sonic match Mario no matter what.
And I'm not biased at all,believe me or not,I absolutely hate the original S3K sprites(Sonic 2 all the way!).
What I'm trying to say is that Deebs (readeebs,as in not me)wanted to the sprites to be a spiritual succesor to S3K,and I think Gors' edit looks and feels nothing like that,but I'm not saying they should look exactly like the originals(again,I hate the originals).
Here,I'll just throw in this thing:

It's a brand new sprite (as in NOT an edit of Deebs),but with clean,nice shading,and looks nice against Mario,both size and shading wise imo.
I tried to make it into something actually fresh and new,while still retaining the feel of the S3K/Modgen sprites.
Middle row keeps a ModGen-ish palette,but with a brighter lighest white.
Last row uses a different palette for the whites and black.

How's this?

This is definitely getting better and is much less cluttered which is good. Sonic appears to be a bit taller and the longer legs make the proportions much better than the original.

But those random white pixels on the quills still stick out like a sore thumb.
Really, why are they even there? They add absolutely nothing to the sprite. At the very least I could somewhat understand having them on the brow (even though they looked bad), but their current placement is completely random.
You should remove them altogether.