My first go at making a sprite...

[Baegal]

What exactly is your technique? I don't feel like what you're doing is applicable to pixel art. Learning to convey your image on a such a small scale while still being readable is one of the beauties of pixel art, while you merely resized a much larger image (or used a photoshop-like brush tool, which gives waaaaaay too much AA around it(((it's meant for much larger images, like >1000x1000px)))) which makes the piece lose definition.

I'm wondering what process you used to make this sprite, because it's definitely not pixel art.

Like can you give a brief description of how exactly you made this?