thank you for the tips Bengoshia! (also, the monitor link doesn't seem to work)
i actually made the monitor and water bottle off of my monitor and an arrowhead bottle. yeah...
I'll tell you how i made the cat.
i made the outline and filled in the colors
and for the first version i had this
(to tell you the truth, the reason it doesn't have a nose is that i didn't plan for t to be a cat)
then a friend of mine told me that the colors didn't look pleasant. so i changed the purple to red. (last time i used the fill bucket)
then i added a nose...
then i took about 6 colors and used them to shade the red, and i started shading more and more.
then i did the same with the yellow.
then i touched it up after about 3 weeks of me neglecting it.
and theres the finished product.
i call it hand made because i made it with the magnifier tool in MSpaint and the pencil tool.
and i never use brush tools. they always mess up my outlines. i never use it in pixel art.