Kiki mascot drawings

[Tymon Dąbrowski]

Hi,

First, Carsten's ideas for Kiki with Krita tools are really nice,
especially the first three, and especially the filter layer.

Second, I think it would be a good idea to think about how we're gonna use
them. I'm assuming it's something that would accompany news or parts on the
website etc? Because from Tyson's mail it seems like he wants to use them
for other things, not splash screens, but other promotional materials?

Something like for example we already  got from David Revoy for donations,
Kiki with a Piggy Bank:
https://krita.org/images/pages/2021-11-16_kiki-piggy-bank_krita5.png (which
is awesome and I think it probably really helps there:
https://krita.org/en/donations/ and in post-download:
https://krita.org/ga/post-download/) (it's also used on some of the news
posts next to the "Donate text").
There was also an April's Fools joke post by David with Kiki making faces:
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1071/introducing-a-new-krita-plugin-kiki-ultimate-digital-painting-companion
There is also a similar thing but with Carrot instead of Kiki because David
made it for his blog:
https://docs.krita.org/en/untranslatable_pages/building/building_krita_on_host_linux_system.html#building-krita-on-host-linux-system
(
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article193/compile-krita-from-source-code-on-linux-for-cats
)

Is that the kind of thing that Tyson is thinking of?

My ideas:
- Kiki with a newspaper (for news)
- Kiki with a megaphone (announcements?)
- Kiki and fireworks or confetti (for successes, new releases etc.)
- Maybe something representing FOSS? There is this delightful picture:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/2023-02-14_Kiki-loves-free-software_by-David-Revoy.jpg
and there are some pictures of Kiki with friends:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOx6CoyWAAAUclL.jpg or
https://www.deviantart.com/goshaag/art/Sad-Libbie-715399236 but maybe we
could have a picture that shows the idea of FOSS? I don't really have a
good idea for it - the only ideas I have are for a bigger sketch or
illustration.


Btw do we have a new splash screen for 5.3.0 / 6.0.0?


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Side note: it would probably be good if we made it a rule to use the Kiki
Piggy Bank or a similar picture (I wouldn't mind having a variety of them)
for *every* Monthly Update and a new Released or Release Notes post to
accompany a good call to action to donate to Krita.
I think making it into a nice

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Best regards,
Tiar







śr., 4 lut 2026 o 13:37 Drawpile <drawpile at pm.me> napisał(a):

> There's a lot of toolage in Krita that has some "physicality" to it I
> think, so my idea would be theming the pictures around that. Like, a brush,
> a paint bucket, a layer stack etc. are all things that you can make Kiki
> interact with as if they were physical objects and users are likely to make
> the connection to both Krita and themselves using it right away.
>
> Some thumbnail scribbles in that regard
> https://drive.proton.me/urls/G96AY985T0#fCuK9lT32Gnf
>
> Regards
> Carsten
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, February 4th, 2026 at 11:19, Halla Rempt <halla at valdyas.org>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Tyson mailed me this question:
> >
> > "I'm planning to draw
> > some Kiki pictures for you to use in promoting Krita.
> > Although I have drawn many splash pictures, those are not flexible
> enough.
> > I think it's useful to have a set of pictures like what I did for Konqi:
> > https://community.kde.org/Promo/Material/Mascots
> >
> > In this more mascot-like proportion (a mascot for a currently WIP FOSS
> > project):
> >
> https://tysontan.com/temp/spirits_20260116A_takumi_torii_04_chibi_small.jpg
> >
> > The smaller body makes the character easier to fit in various
> typographies."
> >
> > He is wondering what ideas we all have for composition, theme, pose and
> action for images like this, so please come up with suggestions!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Halla
>
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