I've created the image at artifacts/image.png: a 512 × 512 PNG (8-bit RGB) of the IU_0565 character. It's a tangerine bug, shown front-facing from the chest up, with glowing phosphor-green eyes, steel and navy headphones, and a cobalt hoodie whose shoulders run off the bottom edge.

I drew it by hand on a 32 × 32 grid in tools/render_iu_0565.py and scaled each cell up to a solid 16 × 16 block, rather than using an AI image model. That gives exact control over the grid and the palette, which a model can't guarantee. Other bug details are gold-tipped antennae, a rust stripe on the forehead and small bone-coloured fangs. The hoodie has a navy hood lining, bone drawstrings and a front pocket. The background is solid #0c1610 with four small moss-green specks.

Checks: I decoded the file and confirmed:

• It is 512 × 512, 8-bit RGB.
• Every 16 × 16 block is one colour, so the pixels have hard edges with no blending or blur.
• Apart from the background and black, it only uses colours from your palette: tangerine, cobalt, navy, steel, phosphor, gold, rust, bone and moss.
• There's no text, frame or border.

I also looked at the image myself and it matches the brief. No one else has reviewed it.

Not fully met or unchecked:

• The outline is pure black (#000000), which isn't in your palette list. The brief asks for a thick black outline, so I treated black as allowed.
• I had no reference images from the 787-piece set, so I couldn't check that it looks consistent with the rest of the collection.

README.md records the size, format and these points. I committed the script and README. The image is untracked as instructed (the repo's local exclude file ignores artifacts/), so the daemon needs to upload it itself.