Modding Help Pixel art help

I'm working on making some custom races and stuff but I'm stuck on how pixel art works. if anyone can link me to any good tutorials on making pixel art i would appreciate the help.

 

http://makegames.tumblr.com/post/42648699708/pixel-art-tutorial
http://rpgtoolkit.net/tutorials/graphics/lotuswares-pixel-art-tutorial/

And goold old fasioned practice.

 

Curse you Lazarus, you sneaky ninja you...

You pretty much posted what I was going to say.

 

Ive had my share of being on the receiving end of a ninja. =P