Well I've actually been on here a while, but I guess I should introduce myself.
Well I'm Brian, I basically started pixelling back in Paint on Windows 3.1, sometime in the early nineties. I really enjoyed making pictures mainly using dithering, although I didn't call it that back then. I just called it "cool patterns" (or something to that effect). Later on I attempted to make graphics similar to commander keen. Sometime in the late nineties or early 2000s I started actually calling it pixel art, at which point I started making sprites for games in an attempt to get my brother to code a game for me, although I never got enough for one game for him to do it.
Anyways, that's how it goes.