Pixel Pepper :: Pixel Art Detail

Great shading. 

Eh? are you sure? That's a very strange opinion. Pixel art strikes me as one of the less precise mediums for art. Just have a look at the Amstrad CPC compo recently, so few colors, extra big pixels. What's the appeal of that? It's certainly not precision. It couldn't be. Have a look at the artwork on an atari- extreme examples sure. But then even look at the artwork on an SNES, Designed for ~36 dpi, and typically less! not exactly sharp!

AA started to become common in game art as soon as there were enough colors, because people HATED the look of pixels! They're so jaggy, and imprecise! If you soften them up a bit with some intermediate colors, then it's not so harsh. the impreciseness of the pixels is not so bad with AA. But then, what you're really trying to do with AA is make pixel art look like it's not pixel art. Whatever distinctiveness the pixel has, AA is an attempt at erasing it. Because after all, if you just wanted AA'd artwork, you could just use a regular softbrush and not sweat this pixel to pixel stuff.

Sorry, but I must respectfully disagree with your assertion that it's AA and precision that appeals in pixel art. It just doesn't make any sense to me.

AA is just a technique, not a requirement. In the end, it's just a matter of style.
I use it a lot on my pixel art, but not this one. I intended to give a more squary, hard pixel feeling to it.

But anyway, thanks for the suggestion and the patience to edit Pepper ;D

Você está muito bom!
Ficou  demais!

Well, I resized it to fit an 300dpi print, and tried to clear that it was Pixel Art, explaining the why of the ultra-resized pixels.