Beginner at custom spriting.

[Bombshell93]

Oh, and a sidenote, a pile of poo is still a pile of poo. It has no value. Just because its original doesnt make it art or give it meaning or anything. The amount of effort and work put into something is what gives it value. Blatently recoloring... yeah thats poo. But spending hours editing, tweaking, and re-imagining a sprite has worth as well. Look at Apple. That company is worth billions. And all steve jobs did was release better versions of what was already on the market.

Just something to think about.

I'll try and do this quickly.
Value in this case is too vague. In artistic skills specifically I can name very relevant values in work but I'd like to highlight one in particular:
Educational value - an original piece of poo is worth infinitely more than an edited piece of poo, an original piece of poo can be improved, an edited piece of poo can only be edited more (there is a significant difference)

To cut a long story short,
To try and fail and try again is a trait of someone willing to see and learn from their mistakes,
To edit and fail and edit again is a trait of someone still waiting to try for the first time.

I'd not like to touch on how irrelevant the apple comment was, all that says is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" which is true, but whatever "it" is, it need to be made first.
Similarly I hardly think apple took stuff from microsoft and edited it, no they started by making the ORIGINAL personal computer and kept improving it. (I'm not a mac person myself but analogy speaks for itself)