I see, I've been doing American Kenpo on my end. On my end, I'm a Banjo & Kazooie main. If you wish to see my portfolio you're more than welcome to here and I also have an account on Newgrounds, which is my preferred social but I'm on here to expand networking opportunities with others.
Since I was a little kid in the late 90's and early 2000's I grew up with the SNES and PS1 in addition to the gameboy and gameboy advance. Since then I branched out to other consoles. Hence my love for pixel art being a thing and after meandering between different communities like The Spriters Resource, Pixel joint and Newgrounds I've ended up doing what I'm doing for the most part. I've been doing my practice with art for about 13 years now.
Also life doesn't get easier but when you do more stuff along the way it gets better over time. Don't stress too much over a lot of it and you'll do fine. Also nothing wrong with being a Kirby main, if you main Minecraft Steve that would have been worse. I'll be sure to check out your game at some point. If you want to get to know me more by all means you're more than welcome to contact me Via Newgrounds DM. (I don't know if Itch.io has a DM system, sorry)
Either that or Discord, username is the same on there.