“Recharge” (2026) - An attempt to create a splash art illustration featuring the legendary Kiki the Cyber Squirel, the official mascot of Krita. Eventually, I decided to turn it into a larger package, including a big “making of” tutorial, a brush bundle etc. (with the intention of gifting it to the Krita Project.) The last slide shows a mockup of the loading window.
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Hey! Zegalur is here! I follow you on youtube
Great job. Kiki is growing up and becoming a more serious girl. 
Шикарная работа. Кики как и подобает растёт, становится более серьёзной девочкой.
The fact that this is not just a paintover based on a Blender scene is crazy. 
In fact, in seems 3D-programs were not even part of the process (shown here: kiki-splash-art/03_making_of at master · zegalur/kiki-splash-art · GitHub).
How anyone can have such a feel for volume and material/reflection is beyond me. 
The only thing I miss a bit is an explanation of what Kiki is actually doing in this pose. Is she drawing an analogue painting with digital tools? Or digitalising an traditional sketch? 
My idea was that she’s studying the sketches she made, mentally preparing herself to work on a large canvas. But yeah - it is not clear. This is the kind of thing I wish I had thought through better. I now have tons of ideas on how I could made it much better, like, giving her a pencil and replacing the palette with a 3D hologram reference, etc.
Totally Amazing result. I love it.
A lot of cool ideas and an amazing rendering. I really liked the timelapse you posted on Insta https://www.instagram.com/zegalur/ with the thumbnails and composition research.
Congratulations! Your artwork has been voted into the featured artwork gallery row.
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Oh, wow, thanks @sooz ! 
Hi again!.. I’ve dl the pack, and found it to be very usfull ( for what i wrote in the pm erlier) .. haha, actually these 6 process ones, togheter as a series, to use in a project-reel-material for possible furter postings on social media platforms in a humble try to reach out a bit… the whole pack i great man… there are other material i will uae as well, process etc.. thank you!..cool indeed, an awesome picture!! i will mail you, and let u know when i have some of it worked on… cheers @zegalur ( ps, ) and of course, Pavlo…you will be credded!
@zegalur Happy victory in the contest.
С победой в конкурсе.
Was this an actual loading screen for Krita?
Read through this topic, the answer is here.
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impressive!
Wow this is pretty cool!
Cool
Awesome!!!
One of the best paintings of Kiki´s life. Very very good job and thanks also for all the info and making of. +10
kiki is nice
