Pixel Art Categories

Mar 19, 2011

Why are so many things mislabeled as pixel art? While browsing I've noticed most are made with various brushes in photoshop (not pixel art), are photo reductions (not pixel art), or something they drew in msPaint (not necessarily pixel art). To be pixel art it needs to focus on the importance of individual pixels. People have made great pieces of pixel art in msPaint and photoshop, so clearly the program isn't the deciding factor. It's really all about the process and having full control over everything during this. Now why are so many things mislabeled? I've reported like 10 a day and checked the box so I'd get an update about things being