Afterimage

Afterimage is objectively the best user on Pixilart. Pixilart has seen nothing but delight and fulfillment since she joined.
== About ==
=== Personality ===
Afterimage is a pretty chill dude, or at least she tries to be. She loves Car Seat Headrest and takes every chance she can to tell people that. She is obsessed with girls. Her wall mainly consists of occasionally funny jokes, obscure references, and that's about it.
=== Cool People ===
Afterimage implores you to follow (in no particular order): @usemame-here, @sentaiquarry, @website, @RingoBingo, @Elentric, @Angel-Eats-Kids, @Slate, @geesika, @Archer-A, @Jizzbian, @Birbs, @Mememellow, @dragonkey, and @10Gpixels. They are, in her opinion, some of the most chill individuals on Pixilart.
== Pixilart Career ==
=== Prehistoric Era ===
Sometime in 2019, Afterimage was playing Minecraft like the gamer she is. She was downloading some resource packs and decided to look and see what was inside the folders. She discovered .png files of the textures (alongside more folders). This surprised her as before she thought resource packs were complex files with code or something.This was 2019, she was immature then. Although to be fair, she still is. She thought to herself, "Wow, I guess making a resource pack really isn't that complicated. I should try to make one myself."
Afterimage searched the internet for "pixel art" and clicked the first result.This is, in fact, how she discovered Pixilart. Using the default palette, she messed around and made two pieces of pixel art: a short animation of a 32x32 flaming sword, and an animation of a 2D Minecraft scene. In this animation a creeper walked a few steps, and then turned its head toward the camera. These two pieces were the first pieces of pixel art Afterimage ever created. Sadly, they have been lost to time.
Afterimage discovered the posting feature of Pixilart not long after, but decided not to make an account. She also gave up on her endeavor to make a Minecraft resource pack after, like, a few hours. Her lack of of dedication to ongoing projects remains to this day.
=== Early Era ===
Once in February/March, Afterimage got a video about pixel art recommended to her on YouTube.it's kind of a mediocre video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R44hZgtqMI8 This reminded her of Pixilart, so she decided to visit the website again. She signed up under the alias of Nanner and uploaded her first piece of art: a 20x20 sprite of the character Link from the Legend of Zelda series.https://www.pixilart.com/art/link-cf75e8cf34be4d6
This being basically her first encounter with social media, Afterimage was astonished to see that she immediately received ~20 followers. Encouraged to make more, Afterimage began to make plenty of Zelda themed art. If not for the encouraging words of @CrowCultLeader and @Delta4, Afterimage would probably not have remained on the website. After further perusing the site, Afterimage discovered Pixilart was filled with edgy preteens. This greatly disturbed and disappointed Afterimage, and she has not recovered since
A few days after she joined, Afterimage decided to actually make that resource pack. She titled this pack "Ember Rising." She was trying to fit in with the edgy teens, I guess. Her goal, however, was not to make a full pack; she only wished to make tools, weapons, tool materials, and blocks of material. She uploaded these drawings individually, but you can no longer see them on her gallery, as she deleted them all and compiled them into a bigger drawing.https://www.pixilart.com/art/ember-rising-4c31f563152eb31 As a result of uploading her drawings separately, she had five drawings with "hoe" in the title. Pixilart used to automatically mute any user who swore frequently, and thus, she was muted for a whole week. Afterimage's life during this period was scarring and traumatic.
Afterimage's art during this period was characterized by small sprites, primarily Zelda related, typically on transparent backgrounds. She mostly used the default Pixilart palette, and her colors tended to be either harshly contrasting or not nearly contrasting enough. She was still getting a feel for pixel art, quickly learning, but unsurprisingly falling victim to the typical techniques new pixel artists use.
=== Growth Era ===
About a month into her Pixilart career, Afterimage received her first Staff Pick. This honor was bestowed upon her animation titled "Sunset Bridge,"https://www.pixilart.com/art/sunset-bridge-17fb7848a4c2483 an animation of a train driving on a bridge during a sunset. This was actually an edit of a drawing she made a few days prior. This drawing also later received Picture of the Day. Receiving this honor invigorated Afterimage and inspired her to make more art.
Afterimage's art during this period was very similar to the prior period, but she began trying harder than ever to get more staff picks. This was likely damaging to her motivation and inspiration, as she continually tried to make more impressive scenes and was disappointed by lack of recognition. However, she did not cease to keep trying.
=== Color Experimentation Era ===
Afterimage decided to branch out with her colors, and tried selecting her own. Her art began to rapidly improve at this point as she learned and experimented with new techniques. Not all of these techniques were necessarily good (such as excessive anti-aliasing and dithering), but she is still very fond of some of the pieces from this period. She eventually made her first palette, the Nanner palette,https://www.pixil.art/art/nanner-palette-25c2acc3c6372f2 which was undoubtedly a turning point in her art career. Once again, this was not necessarily a good change, as the palette didn't accommodate many different styles of lighting and whatnot. During this period, she continually tried to force the palette to work with drawings they weren't meant for. Nevertheless, she made some impressive pieces.
Afterimage's art during this period was characterized by A LOT of anti-aliasing. Once she discovered it, she went absolutely ham and used it as much as she possibly could. She did also experiment with more saturated colors, which gave a lot of her art more life and personality.
=== Nanner Bread Era ===
By this point, Afterimage had decided she wanted to continue making big master palettes she could use for all of her drawings. She went through a handful of these, continually trying to improve them to perfection. There isn't too much to say about this period. She made the Nanner Bread palettehttps://www.pixil.art/art/nanner-bread-08bcc1dfe82dee1 and used it for nearly every drawing, until she moved onto her next palette.
Afterimage's art during this period still utilized excessive anti-aliasing, but she was getting better at clusters and creating simpler chunks of color. Though her art was rather nice to look at, the fundamental elements and forms were still rather crude.
=== Nanner 32 Era ===
Aside from art, this was a very exciting period for Afterimage on Pixilart's social scene. She was just starting to get involved with interacting with people, and had some fun times. Among these included her Archer-a parody account, Archer-d, into which she put a shocking amount of effort. She made a bunch of stupid palettes for it, but halfway through one she realized she was onto something. Prior to this, Afterimage had always strove to keep the color values of her palettes round, evenly spaced numbers, like multiples of five. This was incredibly dumb. It took making a joke palette to realize this. She tweaked one of the Archer-d palettes, and it became the Nanner 32 palette.https://www.pixil.art/art/nanner-32-73182e9af5a669c
Around this point, Afterimage decided enough was enough and that she really wanted to be able to quickly make nice looking characters like some of her biggest inspirations during this period, RingoBingo, Froemazy, and Elentric. She tried her hardest, and eventually made something that looked acceptable, although the anatomy was pretty terrible. At this point, she decided her art was good enough to make people gifts they deserved, and made many of these.
Afterimage's art during this period began rather similar to the previous period. After her character style experimentation, it almost began to look worse. That was, however, kind of the point. She was trying to streamline a style she didn't have to put excessive effort into. She would go on to fix up how everything looked later, which was rather genius of her: to work on streamlining the drawing process before improving her technique. She utilized two-pixel thick outlines, which was a very signature element of her style in this period.
=== Color Revelation/Dark Era ===
Afterimage eventually realized using palettes was dumb and didn't allow as much freedom as selecting new colors for each drawing. This epiphany greatly improved her art in general, and she continued to use this newfound knowledge to make gifts. Although, not long after, due to a variety of factors in her personal life, Afterimage took a several month long break during this period. This was quite a dark age in her career. She wasn't feeling very well at this point, and started the @KatieAfterimage account (don't you dare try to follow it, I only accept people I know (although you probably came from that account anyway (hi quinn you're probably the only one reading this))), where she endlessly rambled to herself. Yeah, totally alone. Crazy, right? After a conversation with Bedtime, she eventually realized this was dumb, so she invited people to that account and returned to her main account as well.
Afterimage's art during this period stunningly improved. She made a lot of super great, complex scenes. She toned back on the anti-aliasing, though it was certainly still present. She redrew a few album covers, drew other people's characters, and made fanart of her favorite pieces of media. Honestly, that is pretty much all she has ever drawn and ever will draw. What can she say? Music, friends, and her interests are the things that make her the happiest in life.
=== Grand Return Era ===
After returning to Pixilart, Afterimage immediately decided the two pixel outline was dumb and started on a one pixel outline. This was an imperfect solution, though it was a step in the right direction. Her social experience on Pixilart had a great resurgence during this period, and she began calling Downgraded, Quinn, and other friends on Discord more frequently. She joined the Gromit Mug group, and got up to many silly antics. This was quite the revolution in the structure of her Pixilart experience.
Afterimage's art during this period was similar to the previous, with few noticeable differences (aside from the one pixel outline), although she continued to steadily improve.
=== Style Revolution Era ===
Feeling invigorated, Afterimage decided her art was taking too long to make, so she began an effort to once again streamline her art creation process. These experiments yielded great results, and she figured out how to simplify her style while making sure the fundamentals were still correct. This was similar to her character experiments of the Nanner 32 era, but this time around she focused on a slightly different goal: focusing more on the anatomy/forms of her subjects rather than over-engineering the rendering process. Through this simplification, she was able to almost completely break the habit of excessively anti-aliasing. She also experimented with digital art a little bit, though not very much.
Afterimage's art during this period again improved dramatically, and she posted art far more frequently as she sped up the drawing process. Similar to the Color Experimentation era, Afterimage also once again experimented with saturated colors and made some beautiful color schemes for her drawings. As usual, she made several gifts, fanart, and album covers. Near the end of this period, she rebranded her account from Nanner to Afterimage.
=== KatieAfterimage Era ===
Eventually, Afterimage grew bored of the Pixilart community as a whole, and only wanted to interact with the users she knew best. As a result, she decided to retire her original account, and reclude herself to her private alternate account. As a final hurrah, she created the Pixilart Trading Card Game for her main account. Over 200 fan-created cards have been made for it, and many continue to be made. She only posts art and wall posts on her private account now. She took an extended break from the site during this time, but semi-returned to post infrequently.
Her art during this period did not change much, and she began to post more sporadically. She continues to steadily improve in artistic skill, but has made no major changes to her style. During this period, she designed her four main ocs (please draw them).
=== Current Career ===
Afterimage is still uploading art to Pixilart this day. Unless she left and forgot to update this article. If she leaves, feel free to update this section. 
== Personal Life ==
Fair warning, this section is just stupid.
=== Early Life ===
Afterimage was born on Nanner Island when time began. Ever heard that riddle "I am the beginning of the end, the end of every place. I am the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space?" The answer to it is Afterimage. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a fool.
Since Afterimage was born at the beginning of everything, she was born alone. She had no friends. The same remains true today. Nevertheless, through pure grit and determination, she grew up into a ripe, healthy nanner. Truly a success story for the ages. Everyone should follow in her example.
=== Pixilart ===
On March 2, 2020, Afterimage joined Pixilart. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. However, she remains on to this day, despite her haters.
=== Involvement in Sociopolitical Affairs of Syria (2006-2007) ===
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=== Death ===
Very little is known about Afterimage's death. Some say she just up and died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if she had enough human left in her to die. Some say she’s still out there, bidin’ her time, like, but I don’ believe it. Others say she was assassinated by the KGB. This is a more likely theory due to her known interactions with the organization in Bangladesh.The section about Nanner has possibly been removed to cover up her controversial actions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB#Bangladesh
== Relationships ==
You'r momhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal_insult
== Trivia ==
* Afterimage is based.https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/96044-trollface
* Afterimage is obsessed with nanners.If this article says it does not exist, it is because the elites are hiding things from you. Don't trust anyone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanner_Obsession
* Afterimage can make the Arbiee Sprite from memory.
* Afterimage can spell and speak aloud "honorificabilitudinitatibus" from memory. She is always more than happy to tell you why. No one has asked her to this day. You can be the first.
* Afterimage's favorite Quora question is this one.
* This entry has multiple typos. You win $13,000,000 if you are able to find them all and type them in the comments below.
* Afterimage's favorite video games are Portal 2 and Super Mario Galaxy. She has made pixel art of both of these games multiple times.
* Afterimage's favorite song is "Black Coffee" by Breanne Düren.
*Afterimage got invited into the pixilsmp and YOU DIDN'T HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
== References ==
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