A lot like Xion's case, I was tired of masturbating and needed a new hobby. That was what that story was about, right?Haha, no.
Oh I first started on Tip.it runescape forums making runescape signatures using paint cus I didn't have any other program, at first I didn't think of it as pixel-art, don't remember even know what pixel art was.. Sick and tired of trying to make 'pixel signatures' (they were hardly that as one of my pieces was 200+ unecissery colours), I realised there is more to pixel art than what I have been doing.. im still trying to shake off those old bad habits.
I dabbled a bit with it Games Factory when I was a stupid little kid,
what about dates people? I want to know dates...I think it'd be interesting to find out how the internet pixel cult started out.I know no exact date, however I was around pixelation at it's original creation, was monitoring tsu's tutorials page, and guess that the activity began picking up popularity on the net around the time of the second iteration of Pixelation (the first was a modest 'board with green writing on blue bg, mimicing the tutorials.)
Mario Paint's Stamp editor mode along with the Nintendo Power "Player's Guide" (if you can call it that).
Graal Online. When I joined all the user-made things sucked, and by the time I was good enough to confidently submit new graphics there was tons of good stuff.Weird, same deal with me except a friend introduced me to pixel art, I didn't even know it was an actual type. Then, I entered a new world, well, just the same, but expanded.
And I was tired of masturbating and needed a new hobby.
Scuba Steve, DOOM, and Klik and PLay.