I redrew Gio with more realistic proportions than my previous picture showing his height ( https://www.furaffinity.net/view/59141109/ ) along with a much more realistic body shape, and changed the colors of his pants, belt, earmuff pads and support bar, hair, nose, and claws (on his feet) to darker shades of gray that are almost black to reflect how he'd actually look in the real world, since everything that is dark shades of gray (except the skin in his ears) would actually be black - but are dark shades of gray due to graphics limitations, since his fur is already black and the details (such as his pants, hair, nose, etc., would not be visible otherwise to myself - or you, the audience).

As drawn, Gio is 6 feet (72 inches, or 183 centimeters, or cm) tall , not including his hair or ears. If you included his ears, he'd be 6 feet, 5 inches (6'5", 78 inches, or 198 cm) tall ; in reality, he is actually 5 feet 11 inches tall (5'11", 71 inches, or 180 cm) tall to the top of his head, excluding his hair and ears - and 6 feet, 4 inches (6'4", 77 inches, or 196 cm) to the top of his ears.

I tinted this picture with 32 Red, 8 Green (a dark shade of brown) at 50% Luminescense to give it a retro look, similar to how color film photographs and older, pre-2000s animation would appear on a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) TV, as an image with "perfect" colors or a high blue saturation is obviously from the present day and clearly digital - not that I'm hiding the digital part, as it is clearly pixel art. In addition to that, I resized the image in the Windows 11 version of Microsoft Paint (after drawing it in the Windows XP version) to 500% (or 5 times its original size, or 5x) from 216x288 pixels to 1080x1440 pixels (without enlarging the canvas) to blur the image by using the anti-aliasing glitch in Windows 11 Microsoft Paint. I then saved the picture as a GIF file, to recreate the imperfect look of old color film photographs (think Polaroid, Kodak, etc.) in which the imperfections are only visible up close due to how the printer mixes red, green, and blue ink in layers to produce the image on the film of the photo.

This look (blurring + saving as a GIF file) also doubles as an anti-AI (Algorithmic Imitation, not "Artificial Intelligence") layer, as from afar it appears as normal, but up close, the image, while still very clearly and obviously pixel art, is "damaged" so that any AI copying this image as a "pixel art" reference will produce an image that no real pixel artist would ever create with obvious artifacts and too many colors (from the GIF processing). Don't worry, I (and only I) still have the original, undamaged version of said drawing. I also didn't forget to reset Windows 11 Microsoft Paint before turning my Wi-Fi back on - I am very well aware of Microsoft's data farm for AI from Microsoft Paint and other apps on Windows 11, and am not taking any chances.

Anybody who does digital art (myself included) would be wise to only release "damaged" reproduction copies of their artworks, photographs, prints, etc. so as to make it harder for Algorithmic Imitators (AI) to use my or your artworks as references to copy your style or quality. Perfectly polished images is making yourself a target for such machines and their scouts to copy you.


- Gio

Friday, May 23rd, 2025
4:05 P.M. Central Daylight Time (CDT)