I'll give you that some people can start pixel art at 12 and benefit from it. I guess pixelation helps in that regard. My art when I was 12 was in such a preliminary state I just cringe at the possibility of pixel art versions of it. But then again I joined pixelation when I was about 16... 7 years ago, gosh, and I it did help me lots then.

But if I were to be brutally honest, had I spent those 7 years persuing real media and proper graphic arts studies and were I to start pixel art now as a 22 year old person, I'd probably reach my technical level in 6 months... plus, I'd be more skilled in said graphic arts and real media.

There's not much to pixel art. The only thing that cannot be attained in 6 months by a talented and studied person (like say, Snake, who had this sort of evolution while he's been here) in pixel art, is the time spent thinking about the aesthetic implications of the medium.

helm, theres something about you that I don't like... ah, yes. I've found it. It's that you think people need to study art to make it. Like me, I'm 12, pixel art is just my after school hobby. The closest I've ever studied art is looking at a few MLSS, Sonic and anit-aliasing tutorials, and one of the teachers in my school (has 3 degrees in art) says I have potential, and that great art can be anything you can see or hear.

and soup, i like it so far, and is this for mugen?