Fantastic new art for some, so-so for others, in my opinion. Though, this new artwork further heightens my appreciation for Mr. Sugimori. He's so extremely talented.
I'll list some of my favorites and least favorites, and explain why:
Favorites:
-Bayleef/Meganium: Both are very basic poses, but the way he colored and drew them is just fantastic.
-Typhlosion: Simply an amazing pose. I'd actually worked on a few sketches that were similar to this pose. It captures the volcanic nature of it. Glad Sugimori did this pose.
-Feraligatr: Really awesome. That's all I can say. xD
-Noctowl: Ugh, I was going to make my Noctowl artwork with an expression like this one's. It's a really awesome pose with great expression.
-Lanturn: Another one with a pose and expression similar to how I wanted to make my Lanturn artwork. This one's just perfect for Lanturn.
-Togetic: Just awesome. It's perfect for Togetic.
-Mareep/Flaaffy/Ampharos: Even more poses that turned out exactly how I wanted to make my artwork for them... >_>;
-Azumarill: Just looks great.
-Sudowoodo: I'm actually somewhat neutral on this one. It's pretty much the re-used classic pose issue again, but the way he drew the right leg is awesome.
-Yanma: Another cool one.
-Wooper/Quagsire: Even more with poses extremely similar to how I wanted to make my artwork for them... In Quagsire's case, I was going to have both arms up, though. Still, awesome job on those.
-Wobbuffet/Girafarig/Steelix/Granbull: Just awesome poses and expressions.
-Ursaring: Simply amazing.
-Slugma: It's exactly how I wanted my artwork of it to look. Guess I'll need to pick a different pose now. D:
-Corsola/Remoraid/Octillery/Delibird/Phanpy/Stantler/Smeargle: Great poses.
-Hitmontop/Smoochum/Miltank/Blissey/Entei/Suicune/Larvitar/Tyranitar/Lugia/Celebi: Really awesome poses. Smoochum is all "Oh no you di-n't!" xD
Least Favorites:
-Furret/Spinarak/Ariados: I understand that maybe he wanted to keep the "classic" poses for their artwork, but they're too much like their old pieces, even shape-wise.
-Scizor: I really like the pose, but unfortunately, I don't like that he drew the head from the front, when it looks so awesome from the side... I guess Scizor's face just looks weird from the front to me.
-Skarmory: I realize it's an in-flight pose, but it just wasn't what I was looking for. It's still kinda cool, though.
-Raikou: It's awesome to finally have new artwork for it, but it's not as good as the other two pieces of it by Sugimori, in my opinion. It still looks nice, but it almost looks like it's slinking away because it did something bad, like how most dogs/cats do. All that's missing is its ears being down (but it can't really move those, now can it?).