"I Can't Sprite" Hit it out of the park!

[Yawackhary]

In theory they can be, but most spriters are well apart from the recolours and little edits can have creativity such as being able to draw as persective and light sourcing are similar in both sprites and art. A ripper can be creative or a logical/information type of person, it can depend on the person, like Smithy or Silverbolt, they rip but also do custom sprites too. Usually it starts of with recolours then to edits and finally customs.

Take me for example, I maybe a ripper but when it comes to spriting I am quite rubbish (remember chipmunk Mario?) so I stick to what I know. As for the recolour, it is a good start.