I made artifacts/image.png, a 512 × 512 PNG of the IU_0222 character, and looked at the result. The generator script is in tools/make_iu_0222.py and isn't committed yet.

How it was made: I drew the character on a 32 × 32 grid in a Python script (Pillow), then scaled it up 16 times. Every pixel is a hard 16 × 16 square, with no anti-aliasing, gradients or blur. The image uses 12 colours.

What's in it:

• Cat: a front-facing bust, centred, with tangerine (#f0a04c) skin. It has rust cheek stripes, a bone-coloured muzzle, a bubblegum nose and black dot eyes.
• Beanie: cobalt with a ribbed navy and cobalt cuff and a lilac pompom. The ears poke out on both sides with pink insides.
• Armor: steel with shoulder plates, a neck guard, a chest plate, bone highlights, navy trim and gold rivets. The shoulders reach the bottom edge.
• Outlines and background: every shape has a thick black outline. The background is solid #0c1610 with six small moss-green specks, and there's no text, frame or scenery.

After the first render the pink inner ears weren't visible, so I moved them and rendered again.

Requirements that aren't fully met:

• The outline black (#000000) isn't on the listed palette. I used it because rule 3 asks for black outlines.
• I couldn't check that it matches the other 786 pieces of the set, because no reference images were provided.

These notes, plus the dimensions and format, are recorded in artifacts/README.md. The PNG and the README are left untracked as instructed.