↔ Hey, hey, I think it looks like pixel art just fine. o_o

The only thing that throws people off is the vast amount of colours.

Frankly all AAs look the same to me, even this one... How can you tell?

ok... you didn't use PS but for sure you are use Dpaint AA built in function...

" AA was made by hand" come on ...

Yes... especially when you realize that it was drawn about year 2000. I didn't even hear of PS back then and it was fully drawn in DPaint. Every pixel here was put by me, and even AA was made by hand, that's why it's not perfect. This work here was tough and took me a looong time. And better give a closer look at shading technique. You will see how it was made. There are some tiny labiynths used for shading - very time consuming painting...

Omg, how could you shade that upper part of K so good? Even in 8x zoom I wouldn't be able to distinquish the pixels hued so close together..

It's not messy it's converted from Photoshop... =]

The AA on this looks quite messy and just a little suspisous.