I redrew my avatar picture with Gio "looking" at the observer with his head partially turned to the right (left from our perspective), and added a thick, white outline around Gio, as if he were made into a sticker. I also added extra detail to the downward sloping edges of Gio's hair to make it appear to "imply" the texture of a natural afro, which is hard to convey in pixel art.

This picture is enlarged 10x from its original size (100x100 pixels) to 1000x1000 pixels, and is at 75% Luminescense with a tint of 32 Red, and 8 Green (a dark shade of brown). I enlarged the picture in the Windows 11 version of Microsoft Paint to give it a screen blur effect (after drawing it in the Windows XP version and doubling its size to maintain clarity before enlarging it in the Windows 11 version to its current size), and saved it as a GIF file to give it a "texture"; this also doubles as an anti AI feature, as when viewed from afar, the picture appears like normal pixel art, but when viewed up close, it appears distorted due to the GIF file compression (which causes artifacting in the picture), in addition to the picture being blurred before being saved as a GIF file.

For any new viewers/observers (and to clear up any confusion), Gio is a humanoid cat, with five fingered hands with palms, and five toed feet with soles - not paws, or something in between paws and hands or feet, even though he still has hidden, retractable claws) - and he is male (I don't blame you for not knowing, as Gio being part cat doesn't make that obvious, especially not with the amount of hair he has on his head - well, unless he was a lion, as well as not being able to see the rest of his body, which would make it rather obvious that Gio is, in fact, male.)


- Gio
Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
6:14 P.M. Central Daylight Time (CDT)