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I will bet you that Feraligatr took less time to make than the 3D Combusken earlier noted, interestingly enough. Not an insertion of my opinion, but general food-for-thought.
Constraints on the available artwork. I used to do a lot of visual art work, especially freelance work, and the system is generally that if you have as much freedom as these guys are likely allotted, you likely punch out a series of works on a single pokemon in a given time slot.
The onus, thereby, doesn't fall to the artists' fault, but rather those who choose the image to be the most appropriate. Usually for works there are multiple concepts drawn - especially if it's as vague as 'draw a Turtwig in Autumn' - and then those are submitted. The studio then decides, based on a variety of factors that aren't privy to the artist and designer, on the 'appropriate' work.
Likewise, the more specific the requests, the more definitive you may hate or like a particular artist. The Legend Cards, for examples, are high quality because they likely have a more stringent set of requirements and given the setup of these cards in terms of the intended collector value, it was obvious that they wanted the artists to make them look more complex and impressive.
Doing so continuously is hardly economically feasible, nor even wanted: such a disparity in the style creates a sense of vibrancy in the sets, regardless of whether you like it or not. Artists rarely prefer homogeneity to the spontaneity of differences, which is also another reason why.
But in all seriousness, I have always really liked the original Base Charizard - something about that card always seemed awesome. Gotta agree with Ninetales ex as well!
