Hi everyone. For the Krita 5.3 release, we (Krita’s developers) are looking for artistic contributions for some banners and icons to use in news posts, in announcements, to decorate parts of the application, to advertise donations or similar purposes. Specifically the following formats:
Icons. The minimum size is 400x400 pixels , but they may be larger (in the same aspect ratio.) They should have a transparent background . An example for something like this can be seen on the donations page on krita.org, with the Kiki with a piggy bank icon.
Banners. The minimum size is 2000x400 pixels , but they may be larger (in the same aspect ratio.) You can also make them wider, but it should be possible to crop them to this ratio without losing anything important. Ideally, they should have some room for text, like we might put “update to Krita 5.3” or “support Krita with a donation” or “get Krita on Steam”.
If you have other pictures at hand that you think may be useful, you can offer those up too of course, but we may not be able to use them if we can’t make them fit.
As for what should be in the pictures, that is mostly up to you. Of course having Kiki in them is nice, but people, other creatures, landscapes or the abstract are all fine too. However, some things must be avoided:
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No AI use whatsoever. We don’t care if you organically sourced it, we just really, really, really don’t wanna deal with it.
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Do not include anything from popular media , like fanart of a cartoon, comic or video game. These have copyright issues.
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Avoid species made by someone else , such as synths. Even if the creator is generally fine with their use, they still cause copyright issues. Kiki can of course be used freely.
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Don’t use characters that you or others use for other purposes. This is mostly to avoid grief in the future if you, for example, end up disliking the character.
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Don’t write text directly on the pictures , not everyone speaks English! You can leave space or speech bubbles for text to be inserted though. Signing your work is fine too of course.
The pictures must be licensed under one of the following Creative Commons licenses: CC-BY SA 4.0 (recommended), CC-BY 4.0 or CC-0. Please clearly state under what license you offer your pictures and under what name we should credit you. Any Creative Commons licenses with “ND” or “NC” in them are not usable. We also don’t accept custom or informal licenses, the Krita Foundation doesn’t have the legal resources to deal with that.
You can post the pictures you want to offer in this thread. If you prefer to stay out of the public, you can also send them to me via a direct message (click on my icon and pick “message”.) Of course we can’t guarantee if we use the pictures and to what capacity, but all help is appreciated.
Our goal is to release Krita 5.3 in February 2026, so we hope to see submissions before end of January. Submissions coming in later are still welcome, but are increasingly unlikely to make it.
Thanks!