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 All water under the bridge.

 It doesn't matter now I deleted it to avoid the confusion.

Uh this is my last comment on the topic cause in order to avoid all the confusion I just deleted it. So there not harm, no foul.

 Hey greenraven about that "Public" thing... Let me ask if you were in public and playing certain songs was frowned upon would you change what music you listen to just to fit into society's image? (I'm really asking)

Okay why are you stalking all of my art?

This is for sure done by hand in paint and animated with Ulead GIF Animator. There's no description because it's optional and I only uploaded this one so I could have an avatar 

 I'm not taking it personally dude... I'm just saying I like using pillow shading cause people don't use it enough. I LIKE MY WORK TO BE DIFFERENT IS ALL and as for saying poor practice, dude that's offensive if I said I chose to use pillow shading then why would it matter, besides I didn't ignore any light source I just chose to use my own light source... (Before judging really take a chance to look at something before jumping in and saying that's not the way you'd do it, please)

I may be new to this site but I'm not new to pixelart and as for my growth as an artist I'm an art major in college, I think I have a handle on my own ability.

I'm not saying you don't have your reasons for saying what you do but when multiple people try to point out something then yeah of course I'm going to go on the offensive. I mean constructive criticism is one thing, but complete and utter disregard for a person's choice is another.

 Dude do you have an issue with me cause, if you can read the top halp is but the bottom's scratch. Kid take it elsewhere.

 Uh dude you do realize that even pillow shading has it's uses and if everyone did the same thing it would be boring... besides I don't care to change my style of shading just because someone says it's shaded oddly

 Yeah I meant to put it in info but since this is my first time using Pixel Joint I didn't know if that would even show up or anything and you can't really call it a copy of anything cause if you compare it to the reference I was sure to go in and edit every minuscule detail and the only part even made using that was from 1 pixel below the hole up to the head.

Kid no one is deputing the rules with you idc really because I didn't try to pass it off as SCRATCH work and as for the Psychology thing haven't you ever heard of sarcastic speak AND AS I SAID EACH PIXEL IS TILL HAND PLACED

@ Elk I appreciate you saying that and not just jumping to the conclusion of "Oh that's too nice for a new member to be posting and trying to figure out if it was a edit". And also some of your work like that Gamabunta are my favorites.

I'm not going to argue about how I made it but each pixel is hand placed. I noticed you pride yourself as a rip spotter but that aint me so dude take it else where... BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T LIKE RIPS THEN EVERYTHING SOMEONE MAKES SHOULD BE ORIGINAL OTHERWISE THEY'RE RIPPING IDEAS...  PSYCHOLOGY 101 

 It's an edit of a screen shot of the newest Bleach episode, resized to about 25% of normal size and reshaded with my own palette.