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Now that you know recoloring, you're free to go as far as you wish with it! In fact, I could give you something to work on (fusion&recolor) that I wanted to do but you're free to. :)
Okay cool. You should be using the pencil tool then. In the upper bar when using the pencil tool, you'll see a drop-down saying "Normal" click on it and scroll down to "Clear". This option erases all of the background when editing spites. Don't bother with that pesky background erasing tool.