I smell photoshop Dont use it for pixels that glow on ur character is done with photoshop "outer glow" in blending options this is not called pixel pixel is when u place each pixel, not filter it After zooming i see its not even close to being a pixel That background looks like a result of photoshop gradient tool Now dont say that u added the glow urself If u would have been skilled enuf to make a perfectly anti aliased glow to a poorly designed character, this wont be ur first pixel and it wont be so badly done ok i know it may feel like i m flaming but its what i saw Everything is done like I would expect a beginner to do like - no cleaning of lines, wrong anatomy, broken whip ( zoom in to it ), bad prespective, etc. So nothing new with it But dont call it a pixel unless its actually one Another thing, most of the stuff is pillow shaded Looks like you made everything in layers, selected one object by selecting a layer, then did Select > Modify > Contract ( or something like that ) Then you decreased it by 1 px, filled the new selection with a lighter color, and repeated and resulted in non-pixeled pillow shading Even the text is added with photoshop Perfectly anti aliased I suggest you go see tutorials and dont use powerful stuff like photoshop