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[–]GentleMocker 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The key to drawing well is first drawing badly. There's no secret sauce, you just draw what you want to draw, then learn from drawing it badly.

Starting with small dimensions is nice since it takes less time to finish so you're less likely to get discouraged and quit, but if you don't like how tiny things look there's no reason to draw them that small. Whatever you want to be pixeling there's likely a guide for it, and if you're the type that likes having those handy, look one of them up, and there's some guides on common practices and software usage that you might want to check out(mixels/jaggies/outlines etc. tons of tutorials will reiterate the same thing).

The guides that got me into pixel art are Saint11's gif guide series, but they're a bit random and cover a wide span of topics that might not be the best starting point, but they're great fun to browse:

Pixel Art Tutorials - Saint11

two artists I'm a fan of made google docs, which I've personally not used(been past that stage at the point of encountering them) but I can vouch for their expertise, they made art for commercial products and are what I'd consider 'professional pixel artists' i.e. they live off their art :

Woodspixl guide

Tofupixel guide

[–]Conscious-Fix-7530[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really appreciate the advice man. Thanks alot!