Kiki mascot drawings

[David Revoy]

Great news. I'm excited to see new Kiki artworks made by Tyson!

+1 with Tiar about the refactor of the piggy bank illustration I made a while ago, but this time in Tyson more official style. 

Tiar's list of ideas (newspaper/megaphone/fireworks) are also all very good, imo. 

An additional suggestion: Kiki with a watering can, watering a cyber plant with the Krita logo (flower?). A pose that could symbolize care, development, and improvement.

David
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On Wednesday, February 4th, 2026 at 21:59, Tymon Dąbrowski <tamtamy.tymona at gmail.com> wrote:

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