While simplicity can be cool, like in your word design here, to complicate things a bit does not mean that it is not pixel art.
Example: http://www.lovepixel.idv.tw/works/cover/cover_05.htm
and yes i have considered aa'ing but the fact of the matter is my home pc wont boot let alone let me download, install and use any program which allows aa'ing.
however i do promise that if and when my pc returns i will take my work more seriously and learn to use aa'ing. ; ]
for real i never said it wasn't, but still that image is drawn in quite a classic amost cartoony like pixel style where its odvious its drawn in pixels, im refering more to the kinda modern styles of images where the pixels are more unseen, if you get me