I ám taking it seriously, but what is all this about me lying to myself? What would I be lying about?

I can see why people might think I made that one (the butterfly) in a different way than simply draw it with pixels,
but I didn't. I don't do any digital art, other than pixelart.

170 colours makes a lot more sense to me. The picture is .png format, so it's still just the way it was when I made it, unlike with .jpg format. And there is no way I could've used 1268 unique colours.

That picture.. That's nowhere to be found in the original.. Strange, truly.

And it's .png format, so no automatic blurring or anything.

Are you serious? I did all of this myself, placed every pixel with my own hands.

I'm nót lying, and what you're saying there hurts. I'm not that kind of a person.

I've been doing pixel art for 3,5 years now, I wouldn't dare fake something like this. I'd háte myself.

Do you even know how that feels?
I spend hours working on these things, because pixel art is what I love doing most of all.
And I get called a liar for it.

You're kidding me. ._.

I didn't use any special tools of any kind to make this, I really didn't.
I don't know how I got that many unique colours.

No, nothing. I just drew it.
 

To those who think I didn't do this all myself, I'll take it as a compliment.

256? Wow, that's a lot..

I did this all myself, trust me. This is how I always make my pixelart. I just start and keep going till I think it's done. Guess I always use a lot of different colours.

I combined some pictures in Photoshop;

Link

I don't trace, ever.

Thank you for the feedback.
You're right, of course. I was never really satisfied with the expression of the face..

But I made this quite a while ago, and have improved since then.