Kiki mascot drawings

[Tyson Tan]

Thanks David, those are good ideas!
I like your piggybank donation image, so maybe we don’t need to replace it
-- I can’t think of a better alternative anyway.

Not all images have to be in my style. It's better to have a more diverse
library of clip arts for an open project.

A while ago, I was asked to draw a Konqi specifically for printing.
Konqi already has many "mascot duty" pictures that make him versatile.
It made me think we should do the same for Kiki.

When I was working on the 5.2.3-5.2.15 splash, we already ran into an
issue:
splashes have horizontal composition, making them hard to repurpose for
other tasks. Which is not quite "energy efficient" XD.

So I thought it'd be nice to expand the promotional asset library with more
useful/specific/flexible ones.

On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 7:07 AM David Revoy <davidrevoy at protonmail.com>
wrote:

> 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?
> >
> >
> > ---
> >
> > 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
> >
> > ----
> >
> > 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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