Greetings everyone, I am new here. In my own admission I've never really been into pixel art in a big way, but I've done several pieces in the past.

I wanted to ask this in IRC as I don't believe it really warrants a new thread, however, your IRC server appears to be down. I was merely wondering what applications you use for pixel art. I used to use Adobe Photoshop with my own defined brushes to make creation a little easier when applying large isometric lines, I suppose to many this is cheating, but that's what I did. Most of it was simply using the 1 pixel brush for the finer details. I was reading a thread on here where someone had drawn an impressive dog, and was animating it, it looked as though you were using a specialised program, but perhaps I am incorrect and you all simply use Photoshop or similar.