Probably not Pokemon

[megaMasquerain]

Question. Not sure if this should go in my thread or elsewhere.
Fakemon are fun to make, but I get ridiculously tired of hearing people say OMG THEY AREN'T POKEMON CAUSE THEY LOOK NOTHING LIKE THEM. Some guy says that to me on my thread on another forum, straw that broke the camel's back, etc, and I end up snapping at him.

I tell him that I really don't care if my fakemon aren't totally convincing. Making them is fun and a good way to get posts/views/popularity. My real passion is my Hieros Gamos monsters, but they get no attention at all to which he replies:

"But that's because your "monsters" are just extremely similar to pokemon, they don't really obtain any other quality equal to that of what you lost by not making it a full-fledged pokemon. Therefore they appear like bland versions of pokemon."

At this point I want to wring his neck, but I figured I'd come to you guys for art advice instead of some douchebag on a general Pokemon forum.

So, my questions are:
1. Should I try to improve the similarity of my fakemon to canon? It's been years and I haven't improved... at all. I feel like saying "screw it" and not caring at this point.
2. Should I even be focusing on Fakemon in the first place? I don't want to quit cold turkey like before, it's a fun pasttime of mine and I make a little extra commission money off of it, but at this point it's just for the views and attention I get on deviantart and Pokemon forums. My Hieros Gamos stuff doesn't get even near that amount of attention.
3. Do my monsters look too much like "bland Pokemon", and if so how can I change that?

Sorry for tl;dring you there. I'm just really frustrated.

Anyways. Random fly Pokemon.