Upon comparison with that sprite sheet, the verdict is: edit

Even if it's a heavy edit, PJ requires all work to be 100% from scratch. Like Mis-BUG said, editting is fine for practice if you're a beginner, lots of great pixel-pushers began by editting (though there are perhaps more effiicent methods of learning animation/the medium of pixel art). But it would be dishonest to include it in your personal gallery.

I agree with Reo. Lots of clusters are way too similar to Scott Pilgrim sprite and in many cases you can overlap the sprites noticing few changes. If this is not strictly an edit or a rip, it can be easily judged as one of those.

As first approach to pixel art animation it is good to copy, edit and play with templates and premade sprites, but PJ submission rules are clear about posting edits. Also if you've used a reference for yout piece always remember to mark it in the description.

Hope to see new stuff soon ;)

Scott Pilgrim was one of the references for this sprite. This is my first sprite ever, gotta start somewhere right. It's not a sprite edit, just the character style is similar.

I'm sorry but this looks like a sprite edit from the Scott pilgrim game. what do you have to say?

 Thanks guys I'll fix that up! I'm super new to Pixeljoint and appreciate the pointers. Cheers!

cure If it will be transparent, it will be grey character on grey background of default theme.

we prefer that backgrounds be transparent at PJ unless they serve a purpose, keeps the gallery purdy. your character seems versatile enough to work on any background ('specially given the black outlines), so I think he'd look best without the white box.

nice run cycle by the way, face snaps a little quickly perhaps. Oh, and welcome to PJ!