the "accepted" order of spriting dificulty is:
recolors
revamps
devamps
copy/paste fusions
edit fusions
edits with recoloration and reshading
scratches
as foxhound would say... "it takes no skill whatsoever to make a recolor" or something like that...
once you do figure out how to properly recolor and shade, then do fusions. Just PLEASE! dont bring to the board a bunch of bad copy/pastes... they hurt the eyes as bad as any misrecolor would.