She's just recoloring, not shading / spriting. It is, in fact, the same shading as the original, just different colors. All of those colors were taken from the actual palette itself; so you might as well be telling us to work on the shading of the palettes as well.
You might as well give actual suggestions concerning the shading of the colors instead of picking out various irrelevant details, to make them even better than the original.
And yes, yes she is.
I don't know if you can read or not, but that seems pretty apparent.
You, sir, need to work on your eyesight.