Art program to create custom sprites?

[puggsoy]

Oh well, my mistake then. Guess that only counts for GIMP then (although you can make art, it's just it's designed towards editing).

My latest deviation would like to have a word with you. =P

Heh, yeah I know you can make great art with it. To be honest I'm mainly saying this due to GIMP standing for GNU Image Manipulation Program, rather than GNU Image Creation Program (GICP). From that I'm assuming that, at least from the developers' point of view, it was initially intended for image editing.
Also because I personally use it primarily for editing, since I rarely create stuff from scratch