This is the splash art I created for Krita version 4.3. It was in use up to version 4.4.
The picture was inspired by Claude Monet’s Waterlilies series. I emphasized the sky reflection in the water. Waterlilies and Lotus are symbolic plants in Chinese culture for being virtuous even in the most corrupted circumstances — they grow in the sludge under the water, but that doesn’t affect their flowers being clean. This quality reflects Krita’s free software philosophy and the GNU GPL license it uses. The colorful ripples stand for Krita’s color picker ring.
In this version, Kiki has a Techwear style costume that I designed earlier.
This picture was also supposed to be a color composition practice. Only a few colors were used, and they were all manually picked. I used no gradient or blending. The picture was created from beginning to the end using only Krita’s “basic-5 size” default brush. By eliminating texture from the brush, it helped me to see clearer the color relationships.
This picture is a personal favorite. I had fun with the experimentation of colors, and It was a breakthrough for me to be able to finally create something appealing after a very long low period.
Krita is a free and open source digital painting application. Kiki the Cyber Squirrel (the character in this picture) is the mascot I designed for Krita. I also provided, and has been maintaining, most of Krita’s simplified Chinese translations for the application, the documentation, websites, and everything.
Krita website: https://krita.org/
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