so i learned that with your own line work you can use threshold to make pixel art lines instead of doing it manually yourself. would that be considered cheating in a way? since the pixel lines themselves are being done with an adjustment? I want to know because i kind of like this method for making sprites and objects.

Thanks for the response.
I haven't actually tried it on
any of my work yet but I was
considering it since I tried it on
a sketch that I did and it seemed like
such a easy way to get the lineart done
but then i realized that the adjustment pretty
much takes away from the whole point of
learning to make your own lines.

If it helps you improve your art and allow yourself to continue to develop your skills, then it's worth trying. Since you've drawn the lines already on paper, it might be educational to see how an automated process interprets those lines. That could help you see your art in a different way and maybe learn something about how you can create lines without the automated process. If you do it without really observing the process, you're cheating yourself from learning anything new. So try and be mindful, and consider what is happening to the pixels. If it looks automated(parts of it don't make sense), then not enough focus has been placed upon the pixels, and it would also be apparent to other pixel-artists that it needs more attention.