电子松鼠琪琪 (Kiki the Cyber Squirrel) 是我为自由开源绘画软件 Krita 设计的吉祥物，这是我绘制的 Krita 3.0 启动图，绘制于 2015-09-05。

Krita 3.0 最受人瞩目的新功能便是逐帧动画功能了，于是我决定在启动图中反映这一点。在绘制这张图的时候，我作为一个画师正处在创作低点。我当时意识到了自己单凭爱好自然生长至今的绘画技巧已经遇到瓶颈，不足以让我自如地表现自己的创意，因此我决定重新自学绘画基础。虽然这时我的人体基础还很薄弱，但初步的学习让我得以勉强凑合出了一套乍一看还算合理的跑步关键帧。

我在这个时期的图中还刻意放弃了细节和特效，采用比较初级的上色方式去“暴露”自己的问题。但可能是受心态不自信、创意混乱的影响，整体观感上如今就感觉不太讨喜了。

Kiki the Cyber Squirrel is the mascot I designed for Krita, a free and open source digital painting application. This is the splash art I created for Krita 3.0. Krita 3.0 introduced animation tools, so I decided to reflect the feature in the splash art.

I was in a low period as an artist at the time. I realized my self-taught art skill had hit a bottleneck, so I began learning the basics. I refrained from using details and effects, but instead used a very primitive coloring approach to expose my shortcomings in color composition.

Plagued by self-doubt and confusion, plus the lack of art foundation at the time, I don’t think the picture looks very good now. But I still managed to I put together a convincing enough running cycle in this splash.