User blog comment:Genesjs/My views on the SFW/@comment-1431392-20100807190045

As was said earlier, I think that recolors are the perfect warmup for new designers. For example, my first fanart here (besides school buses and the like,) was a recolor of Tails.

Recolors shouldn't be banned, they should be used as building blocks. Once you do enough recolors and get the hang of it, then artists can start adding clothes and accessories and making their recolors edits.