you know the small pixel drawings like in my sig. well i've been trying to draw those and so far all i got a a voltorb and a starcraft gameplay marine

first thing use colored outlines check my sig for example
as well use shading,makes it a cooler sprite...

err right now im using paint....what should i be using cause paint doesn't have that many colors....

Overall it's better than I could do.

well i tried to do what u said...

i was refering to the black lines too.

It still looks fine with the black lines. If needed I would only make them dark grey?

Eh, whether you use colored lines, black lines, gray lines, or no lines at all depends on the style, what kind of backgrounds are being used, if you have color palette limitations, etc. They all have their places, although colored lines will often work best - basicaly, take the color they're outlining ( red and white, in the case of your Voltorb ) and make them darker shades of that color. Try 63/0/0 for the red part and 63/63/63 for the gray part and tweaking that to taste.
As for program...
MSPaint's more than fine, although if you must use something fancier, I can suggest GraphicsGale - it has a free version, supports frames, layers, and color palettes, unlike MSPaint. With pixelart, you really don't need filters or gradiented brushes or such, and many consider them to be 'cheating.'

mspaint has an infinite array of colors...

anyway imo its just as easy to make a sprite in photoshop as it is in mspaint.

Yes, but *.gif's don't. And neither do all areas where one wants to use pixel art - create some graphics for a game, and you have to stay within the constrains of that game. Keeping small color palettes can make things easier for people if they happen to want to edit the image - and this can include yourself, of course. And some people just prefer to stay within certain limitations for their own purposes - aesthetic preference, challenge, what have you.

well...ima start fixing the marine and making a hydralisk

update

Pretty sick, i can't help but think that the hydralisk face looks like another face i've seen before though lol but yeah good stuff, better then what I can do. maybe start animating one eventually? that'd be sick , good luck.

thx but im not that good yet

It's good, keep up the good work.

nothing big...just drew a pokeball, box and a otamamon

<3 otamon whatever the hell it is

Otamamon

Otamamon

Update:
I drew a larva and a crappy vulture

oh a polywhirl =O