Okay, I feel like a jerk for bringing it up, but I think I ought to follow this through, I think it's important to try to understand and to explain why this would bother me.

Oekaki is a toolset, basically. I'm told it's a style of art, but on a basic level it's kind of hard to define if you're not using the tools. It's a toolset that I don't use, and it's not really a pixelart toolset, because people use it to make more standard digital painting sort of stuff most of the time.

So yeah, there's this distinction. Oekaki isn't exactly pixel art. So if you call someone's stuff oekaki when he's posting to a pixel art forum, you're saying "well, yeah, but it's not really pixel art, is it?"  -- at least, that's what I hear. "This doesn't really belong here, man."

But this is all I ever do. I consider this piece complete. It's pretty much to-the-pixel the thing that I intended to create when I set out to make it, rendered to the best of my ability, considering the techniques that I employ. These are the same techniques I always use, and I like those techniques, and all my stuff is like this, and I like the way my stuff looks. If this doesn't belong, probably none of it does.

So yeah, I take it personal. I think I'm assigning more malice to Jinn's words than he intended, but I'm not really sure that I am.

Yeah, oekaki is just another art form, just sketchy pixel art. An insult would be: "It looks like crappy scribbles", or "It looks like it took you 3 seconds".

But I do take the side of Jinn. Its pretty sketchy and I'm sure if you refined it some more it would look a lot better. It looks really promising.

{ I'm sorry tocky, it's not my intention to insult you or your work...

   But I think "oekaki" is another style to make Art. Not just a bad word.

Jinn: I like you, man, but 'oekaki' is an insult, as far as I'm concerned. Be careful where you whip it out, I'm sure I'm not the only person doesn't take kindly to it.

{ I think it's oekaki...
   But I like it anyway.