User blog comment:TheBoredMantax/sometimes fan characters can start with tracing or recoloring/@comment-15225862-20140121000949

While I dislike recolours I understand what you mean. I've never made any recolours in my life that were serious but my characters have changed over the time. For example some of my old characters looked a lot like Sonic (and some were fan characters) but over time I've came up with a style of my own and changed whatever fan characters I had into OCs...although I still use some of them on this wiki since I don't really want to leave the wiki...