Kiki Character color exploration

Been experimenting with Kiki character since 2018, and his character evolved from initial sketches into what he looks like today.

Kiki's fur color had been a fun exploration process for me. My real cat, Kiki, was an orange tabby cat with a bouncy, cheerful, and kind personality. I wanted the Kiki character to reflect my actual cat's bubbly, warm and positive personalities.

I also experimented other fur colors to see if it would be better for character use, and at one point I wanted to change Kiki to titanium grey to bring out a more mischievous side of him but decided in the end to maintain orange as tribute to him. Diff shades of orange were explored, and finalized with the color on the left of this page.

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