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>>3768901
>Then they would recolor it pixel by pixel,
Haha, source? I'd like to watch it.

Anyway, there's a specific "halftone" color in some raster editors, which paints with already dithered shade. I think even Mario Paint had it. And nope, it's not done by hand. Maybe they'd need to brush it up, but still 99% of work is done autpmatically.

However, it's true there's one caveat. You'd better draw the initial image with less than 256 colors. Then dithering becomes easy.

Also, you can specifically reduce the colors to a specific palette. See picrelated. I sacrificed the BG, but Kenshiro looks pretty good, don't you think. Especially since it was a shit JPG.