


Click with the pencil tool, don't click and drag. Make sure you are zoomed in and draw at the pixel level. Use the pencil tool, with a square pixel brush, size 1. The second instance is the document you draw in. Open 2 instance windows of the same document, the first instance is at 100% zoom level - the second instance is zoomed to the level you are comfortable drawing at, usually 400-800%. The process I used at the time was in photoshop. I drew a lot of pixel art with a mouse before Santa brought me a wacom for Christmas several years ago. Gimp may also work similar (I haven't used it in years so I can't confirm it does) - but it's free to use and there are some awesome artists who use it. You didn't mention what your budget is or which tools you have already tried, but I have a specific process for creating pixel art like you provided above using photoshop. Several on the forum here have said inkscape is pretty nice. I'm kind of a a resource junkie, when I see a good link I'll save it, so I can't attest to the two tools below because I've never used them, but they might be helpful. Hey Boris - didn't you link to that cool smooth draw tool a couple days ago?
