When I was about 11 i was messing around with applepaint or whatever the paint program was called on the macintosh ( one of those ones that was a single unit ). Anyway, I was trying to draw something, but really didn't like how jagged the pencil tool made everything look. Zoomed in, tried to make something pixel by pixel and came up with a little man. Decided to make a bunch of these, knights, men, women, animal people, whatever. Then decided I could do a little wares waldo montage. A few hours later I had something like that, brought it to school, all the kids thought i was cool

Didn't repeat for nearly 12 years.
WHat got me back into it was that taiwan site lovepixel, the first piece I did was:

Really the one and only ISO piece I've ever done, moved on to pixeling my sketches after that.