Chicken Maker

Blind

2012-01-30T21:50:00.000-05:00

He's blind and the black and white was a conscious decision to extenuate the fact. On a side note he is not a swordsman.

FIRE!

2012-01-28T20:50:00.000-05:00

Haven't thrown a chicken on a backdrop of fire in a while. So I figured it was time. He's kinda confused.

Rainbow Force

2012-01-26T00:50:00.003-05:00

This is my new background. I haven't done any rainbow things in a while.Probably should have added some sort of side by side looping in addition to the top-down one.

Also Windows 7 for some strange reason insists on doing JPEG compression for the wallpapers, whereas Vista required BMP which was stupid for a different reason. I'm going to see if there's some way around that.

EDIT: Okay, so I save it as a .BMP then rename it to .JPG and for some inexplicable it works like that. Firefox will apparently also do it with no issue.

Cross Chicken

2012-01-24T20:54:00.000-05:00

This is one chicken crossed into another chicken. Don't worry I'll be back to MS Paint soon. I just wanted to play with my new toy a bit.

Chicken i

2012-01-22T21:54:00.001-05:00

I bought the full version of Art Studio on my iPod so I of course immediately drew a chicken. I then realized that I could save a PNG version of it which is great. So here it is. As it turns out the functions works in a poor manner and in fact screenshots the entire display and ignores the dimensions I was working in(128x128) Or maybe I don't know what I'm doing. At any rate this is what I got out of that.

SOPA

2012-01-18T22:20:00.000-05:00

I felt left out. Don't worry. Look Close. We sneaked the chicken in on the down low. Also I really thought the past tense of sneak was snuck but my spell check disagrees.

Moa Bird

2012-01-17T21:41:00.001-05:00

I started playing Guild Wars again. I'm not positive that was a good call with school starting back up but I did it so too late to change my mind now. Anyways as such I have celebrated my game playing by making a picture of it's main bird. The Strider. Or Moa Bird as it's inexplicably called after the tutorial area. I, of course, included a chicken on the side. This site is about drawing those after all.

Elderly Rich Woman

2012-01-15T01:51:00.001-05:00

This is an Elderly Rich Woman who is showing off her theatre stage to some of the new staff. She is very proud of this building and you can see her sparkling with youthful vigor as she talks about it.

Troubled

2012-01-12T16:52:00.000-05:00

Troubled by the decision the chicken looks at the questionable change to the site. An ad! Yeah, I decided to use AdSense. Like I said before. I could be making pennies a day! Which is more than twice what this site rakes in as is. So, you know. That's fairly exciting.

Anyways the site news is now out of the way so let's talk about this chicken.

I chose to use darker colors in order to make things seem more serious, which was difficult given the over all simplistic design of the line-art.

Okay, well, I'll see you guys next post. Feel free to leave any comments, complaints, objections, rants or praise.

9 Pentagons

2012-01-09T18:35:00.000-05:00

This is 9 Pentagons. That's 45 lines!

Questions? Comments?

Gentle

2012-01-08T19:52:00.000-05:00

Being so gentle.

Obviously this one is completely trustworthy.

No need to look further

Contraption Redux

2012-01-06T23:44:00.000-05:00

It was popular, so the Contraption is back for another round. It doesn't need bolts. It's clearly a robot. Nice and shiny. This time it doesn't have an opponent. Did he and the chicken make peace? Probably. The contraption isn't a particularly violent thing, despite his Terminator-esque eye.

0

2012-01-05T19:11:00.001-05:00

0 is the only non-positive natural number.
+ Chicken - Chicken = ZERO

I realize now... That zero shouldn't be the end of this project, but the beginning. Sorry for putting off zero for so long. Oh well. PROJECT COMPLETE~!

Sunset 2

2012-01-04T23:34:00.000-05:00

In this piece I chose to focus on generating a gradient like backdrop to emphasize the dark silhouette I had created. A sunset was the obvious choice for the nature of the gradient, as it often creates a natural shadowing. Moving from grey to red to orange to yellow in small but distinct steps.

cactisandchicken

2012-01-03T23:22:00.000-05:00

To clarify Cacti Sand Chicken is the title, because Cactus And Chicken would have a u in it.

The mysterious rogue taking one last glance at civilization as he begins his journey into the desert.

Chicken vs Contraption

2012-01-02T18:28:00.000-05:00

Chicken versus Contraption is like man versus machine, but since it's chicken instead of man I figured machine needed to start with a C too. Had to flip through the thesaurus to get that one. Well, that's a lie. I used the internet. Still though. So, I need some opinions. That Robot look alright. Wasn't really sure where I was going when I started on it.

Happy 2012 Friends

2011-12-31T23:59:00.003-05:00

This not particularly enthusiastic chicken is here to wish you a Happy New Year. I resolve, here and now, with regards to this site, that I will post more next year than I did this year. I mean I barely managed 200 posts this year.

Decided this would be better as the last post of 2011 then the first post of 2012. Even used the fancy scheduling functions to set it to post in the final minute. But, given my intent I'll probably post somethign tomorrow too.

HERO: BATTLE 04

2011-12-31T23:17:00.002-05:00

I'm sorry. This issue took nearly nine months to come out. The next, and final, issue will be posted in a more timely manner. Enjoy the battle between the Rookie and the King.

House Puzzle

2011-12-31T00:11:00.000-05:00

Four chickens lived in four houses on a street.

RON has only one next door neighbor
CON is right of JON, but not next door
DON is right of RON

Felt like making a puzzle. Not a particularly hard one I'll admit. Highlight below for answer.
LEFT
Ron
Jon
Don
Con
RIGHT

9

2011-12-27T19:07:00.000-05:00

This is the number 9. Because transparency is fun. He's just handing out and relaxing in the round part of the 9. And yeah... I decided against the upside-down 6 style 9. I like the distinct parts.

XMAS 2011

2011-12-25T23:14:00.001-05:00

Sorry. It's a tad overlarge. Click for the full sized one.

I nearly missed Christmas all together.

Santa Chicken hovers beside the Christmas tree covered in chicken ornaments. Just a whole mess of generic scribbled together chickens for the fun of it. Even features ole' Politichicken. The Red White and Blue Bird of Patriotism, cause drawing realistic colors all the time is boring.

depressed

2011-12-23T20:52:00.002-05:00

a super depressed chicken contemplating suicide

CHALLENGE COMPLETE!

Suicide by fast food chicken restaurant.

These Potential Chickens Died On Your Farmer's Face Last night by MercuryCrest

2011-12-22T21:07:00.002-05:00

Sorry, couldn't resist the tagline.
I haven't used MS Paint in 15 years, but this blog has inspired me.
The attached is my version of "SuperChicken"...mainly because I eat them constantly....

Yes. eggs are indeed potential chickens. interesting use of colors, though it is rather inconsistent. I mean brown is the outline of the white, but black is the outline of the yellow. Of course you saved it in Bitmap which is lossless(which is good) but bad for the internet(which is why I resaved it in PNG) Also this picture was pointlessly large in resolution and surrounded by more white space than I like to see.

No real problems with it, though I don't care for large single pixel outlines.

New Projects Header

2011-12-22T20:33:00.000-05:00

I decided the Project Page needed some freshening up, and you know, a fair number of updates. And, well, as first I was just gonna update it or maybe reformat it a bit, but I decided to give it a new page image. Also, I think I'm redesigning the site to breath some new life into it. Don't worry. I won't pull anything too crazy. It'll still be basically the same... But who knows. I might just be going wild with it.

As for the fact that I straight pasted Shades in... Shades is still a great piece and I never redraw him anywhere else. That's practically the point of Shades McCoolguy

8

2011-12-22T20:20:00.001-05:00

The monochromatic dichotomy of this image gives distinct borders to the image, while the shared understated background helps to lend a sense of mystique to the form in the foreground.