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[B. van Stokkum]

The one picture I remember, I spent hours fiddling with it.  I believe it was on a 286 we got from my aunt as our first computer, so it was a DOS program.  The picture ended up being a weird system of caves/tunnels, filled with ants and other random things.  I think they had a pond...  :D

Don't have the picture anymore, but it was a lot of fun

[Ego_Shiner]

Old- -New

[sergiocornaga]

Kid Pix!

I made walkcycles for most the static characters in that. Especially the monsters, like the mummy and the Frankenstein...

However, I was doodling in OS/2 Warp's Paint tool long before that... God, I must have been about five at the time. I learned how to dither from studying the techniques used for the folder icons, among other icons. My massive quantities of pixel art from then are long gone now, though.

The best image I can provide due to all the data from my first three or four computers being gone is this, the first image in my Photobucket account. Nowhere near my first though, and definitely not one of my better works. I was maybe 13 at the time?

[Ishi]

My first pixel stuff would be in Deluxe Paint 3 on the Amiga 600. I remember I used to do mockups of lemmings levels and stuff. I had a demo of Kid Pix, but I just spent most of my time in that stamping cutesy frog images everywhere then dynamiting the screen.

[Corpus]

This was my first attempt at pixel art:

[Strong]

I've been messing around in Paint since I was, like, five, but everything I did back then wasn't very good. I remember I made a ton of pixel art overusing the circle and rectangle tools and not having any shading. I had all the animations for a ton of characters (though none of them were any good, of course) and even included a couple stickmen because I thought stickmen were cool.

Of course, I haven't improved much since then, but I've gotten some more of the basics.

[Seth]

my first pixel art was when I was a kid and used MSpaint to zoom in and make an entire castle scene, made with guys who spread their legs out at 90 degree angles to stand. 

if i had any of my really old pieces I'd post them, but even the oldest I have now (8 or so years old) don't even begin to capture how bad I was back then

[Inanimate]

This is basically my first pixel art. I don't count the Futurology fanarts.

[Shawny]

Aside from KidPix, I made a sprite of Bob-omb from Mario entirely out of circle tools. Lineart AND shading.

[Inane]

Blahh, I started pixelling while playing Graal Online 9 or so years ago. Nothing that old survived.
Here's a timeline:
First thing I submitted to PixelJoint: (hotlinked because I'm a lazy bastard)

First thing I posted on Pixelation:

1 Year ago (lineart by Arachne):

2 months ago:

[Xion]

where is the now?

[Inane]

THERE IS NO NOW
Where are you, now? Not on AIM!

[Μarkham]

I think most of my actual pixel art, outside of Kid Pix/MS Paint scribblings, started with Sim Life and the Sim City 2000 Urban Renewal Kit.  Then I went on to using the Urban Renewal Kit plus print screen to make graphics to make crappy add-ons for a game called "Creatures" and my early website attempts.

The website stuff still exists, but really creeps me out now so I won't post it.

After that, I didn't really do much pixel stuff until I got into Graal in 1999, and some of that still exists.  It's hardly any better than that Icee up there.  Then Graal started costing money.  Pretty much between 1997 and 2003, I had been bouncing between the Creatures series, Graal, Active Worlds, and some crappy RPGM2k project, never managing to complete any of my over-ambitious ideas, and then I got a scanner, attempted to do some webcomicing, and then discovered Flash and never did any pixelling until last month when I did this:



...but I still do everything vector or digital painting.

[MrLollige]

As far as I remember my first pixel art was this:


Now that I look at it.. it is not that bad at all 

[siiseli]

This

[Jared C]

Hah hah.  It sucks, but it was first.

[mokesmoe]

I remember KidPix. Me and my classmates had the whole KidPix studio at our school, although we only used drawing and slide show. We used the slide show in the most crazy ways too, although just for stick man DBZ fights. By setting the timer to 0 and having lots of frames we could make actual animation. Using the side swipe transition you could make a laser expand across the screen. Using scramble/fade (random pixels change very fast from one picture to the other) you could make people teleport. Ah, the fun we had! Now that I think about it, that was only 4 years ago. Seems like so far away though.

[sereneworx]

That's very resourceful of you!


My first pixel art was.... something, ages ago.

[Jared C]

I must see it!

[Pico]

These are the oldest i got. Done in 03 or 04. Cant remember which one is older