Yes, but... I like making my own avatars, thank you very much. There's no fun for me in having other people do stuff for you, especially if it's something you can do (every one can draw, just at different levels of accomplishment. The important part is to be proud of your work).
When you say from scratch, you really mean based off of pre existing sprites just with changes to the way to clothes and hari, etc. look, right?
Anyway, I used to do a bit of sprite stuff, but it all turned out poorly because, and I maintain this is true, creating sprites purely from scratch is impossible. The Japanese guys steal theirs from... ones that are already made. Yeah.