I am not going to take your seemingly hostile message too personally. Since I don't know that you are actually being hostile. Nor would I blame you even if you were, since you don't know me, so there is no reason for you to play nice.
But I think you misunderstood. It was not a statement of "No one can draw this with just pixels". But rather a technical observation of "you can't fit more then one pixel in a pixel", due to the low resolution there is a certain limit on how much detail can be represented. Though someone could do a better job of implying a detail (this is a skill thing).
As for tracing images off the internet, I fully admit when I have, and at the moment, I have only done that once (with the image in the title screen). Others I have used 3D models I have done as a base.
Now, yes I am trying to improve. But just because I know when to stop working on something frustrating to do something else for a bit doesn't mean I don't want to. Just means I would rather stop and take a look at the problem again later, then getting mad and slamming on my keyboard like a little kid over it.
But I think you misunderstood. It was not a statement of "No one can draw this with just pixels". But rather a technical observation of "you can't fit more then one pixel in a pixel", due to the low resolution there is a certain limit on how much detail can be represented. Though someone could do a better job of implying a detail (this is a skill thing).
As for tracing images off the internet, I fully admit when I have, and at the moment, I have only done that once (with the image in the title screen). Others I have used 3D models I have done as a base.
Now, yes I am trying to improve. But just because I know when to stop working on something frustrating to do something else for a bit doesn't mean I don't want to. Just means I would rather stop and take a look at the problem again later, then getting mad and slamming on my keyboard like a little kid over it.