A Place for new Spriters

[Proton]

Hi, newcomer here.
I'm not new to the world of sprites itself. I can tell you this much:
I still do edits. This is because all of my attempts at custom sprites come out with varying results. Some stuff I've made I liked a lot. Others, not so much. I also don't really like to "study" sprites so much because then it feels like I'm just copying their style, at which point, why not just do edits? I would get the same effect and it'll probably look more professional, because it's based from something professional. (Just my mentality)

You should fix your mentality.

I'll take an example.
Your avatar.
You say you don't study sprites because you'd be copying their style,
yet,
it's an edit of a Pokemon sprite
still in Pokemon style.

Yeah, that's original.
Not copying a style at all.

You get pride from edits,
but making something from scratch,
something you made yourself and can claim as your own achievement,
how the hell do you not get more pride from that?