Black Bird

Bravely wandering the desert is one of those core experiences that everyone has had. You may need to adjust your perspective a bit if this doesn't sound true. Maybe your desert was just a large parking lot or a lake.

Pink Shadow

A nice knobby silhouette. Smooth is fun, but largely unrealistic. 
 

Can Of Chicken

I've drunk bone broths, and Campbell's has those little "drinkable" chicken noodle soups, but for some reason my can of seems gross to me... Maybe because it's soda can?

Show Off

Show off what makes you you. I mean I won't be. That seems embarrassing, but you should. This little guy is.

Whatever Colors

One of the true wonders of art is that you can just use whatever colors you want. As long as they're a little offputtingly bright people won't even think it's an issue that the beak is cyan.

Copper – June 2026 Wallpaper

Despite being a simple giant rooster he's also a cop with a gun. There are no themes or meanings to go along with this excitement. There isn't even an accurate drawing of a revolver.

Thank you, as always, to supporters. You make these wallpapers possible.

Round Recovery

I think I'm still a little sick, but I'm back to work so I'm back to you all as well.

Today's chicken is cute.

In A Daze

I've been sick for a week and I'm not really feeling it anymore. 

Intentionally messy linework is annoying to make. Making this with clean curves and shapes seemed wrong though.

Crossed This Road Before

If you keep going where will you end up? You've crossed this road before.

My mind was in a weird country song kinda mood and I accidentally drew something resembling a road line so figured that's where the chicken would be.

Upsidedown

I drew this one upsidedown because this site needed a little more whimsy. Seemed off to present it right side up so I did the playing card style illustration and rotated it around so you can see it both ways.

I'm a bit too competent at this (drawing chickens in MS Paint) so it isn't really distorted much at all?

 

Rainbow Load

This is vaguely digital so it needs to load, but it's not too high tech so we're not doing any blur nonsense. Just green was boring though so I had to reach for the real inspiration, some old 80s rainbow branded tech, like a ZX Spectrum or an Amiga 500. 

Purple > Blue > Cyan > Green > Yellow > Orange > Red

But stopping at Red seemed incomplete, so like a prism the final version is white.

Tough

 

Black and white is tough, as the young people say. Is that what the young people say? It's so hard to keep track. This one is definitely a tough guy though.

Staggered Lines

I like the shape tool and I almost never use it because curves are one of the top things in art, and if I'm not doing curves I'm usually doing strong 90 degree angles. Straight lines just give the whole thing a sort of polygonal look, even though it is obviously a 2D Raster image.

Chorus – May 2026 Wallpaper

For some reason I imagine the sound of this chicken chorus as a barbershop quartet, but that is not the sound that a trio of chickens makes at all. They would just be squawking. In my research, which it may surprise you is a regular part of making this fine artwork, I did see the phrase chorus of gakels, but that's a frustrated hen sound and these punks are clearly having the time of their lives.

Thank you, as always, to my Patreon supporters for supporting this questionable project.

jaggies

Less than pixel-perfect. This chicken has some extra jaggies.
 

Data

Usually when there are random binary numbers on this site they spell Chicken or Cluck, but these ones (11010101001110101010011101) are literally just meaningless

Healthy Zoom

Really just can't be bothered to draw the rest of the chicken so let's get this month started with a nice healthy zoom.

That sure is an eye, and maybe an earlobe. Bit of beak. I don't think you should see any comb from this perspective? 

Blocky

This one has angles instead of curves. You may think this would make it more extreme, but it isn't pointy. It's just blocky

Gray Ball

Many naturally associate being round and cute with being colorful, but that is strictly optional

Kamina

Everybody loves giant robots and pointy sunglasses, so let's resume my anime reference series with Kamina, hero of Gurren Lagaan. He believes in the you who believes in him who believes in you.

Assorted

An assortment of one chicken, filled with mysterious potential. Each and every one of them would bite and claw you right away.

This is, of course, a beautiful(?) tiled background for anything you need one for.

Non-zoomed version
 

Shapes Behind

Various shapes go into making art, but none of these ones in the background. Those ones aren't artistic shapes at all. They're strictly taking up room to make this one less boring.

More Square

Who would want things like curves when we can have nice reliable angles.

Though this is natural and hand drawn so these angles are acute and the lines are a bit wobbly.
 

Chalk

Drawing on a blackboard. Most blackboards, in my school experience, were actually green though.
 

Swirling

Seeing things the way they aren't, because this way is just that much more exciting.

Bubbles – April 2026 Wallpaper

Sometimes I overthink and overdo these wallpapers but this one is nice and straight forward. The most important gimmick is that it tiles seamlessly so it will display nicely on any oddball displays. Together we are just peaking through the floating bubbles to see several angles of this chicken.

To my followers and fans, thank you as always for your support.

Dots

 I considered actually putting polka dots on this chicken to firm up the title, but they were ugly so it's generic instead.

Bawk

The angled "chisel" brush (just a 4px diagonal line) is the most quintessentially MS Paint tool. It's not even good, but everyone loves to misuse it.

Red Glow

Red is an angry color, but light red is pink, and pink is a pastel. We all know pastels aren't angry. They're vaguely friendly.

On Two Lines

 

Picture if you will, a world not of sound or sight but of... chicken doodles? This is the Chicken Maker zone.

I did this in blue before switching it to purple because it was a little too similar to the flag of Finland and I'm trying to avoid that controversy.

Bunny and Chick~

A bit late, but happy easter. I skipped April Fools so this is one of the main not chickens I draw every year...

This is not a quality Rabbit, but I think I roughly aligned the quality of the chick to match? Both are acceptable in a short children's book for sure.

Backwards Cap

Full of the rousing spirit of the 90s this chicken has a backwards cap!

Once he gets his big jeans and the Tony Hawk soundtrack starts playing he'll be unstoppable

Fez

As I'm always telling you this website is all about drawing chickens in funny hats and to my shock I've never drawn a fez, one of the classic funny hats, on here. Not even when it was a trendy indie game.

Chicken Maker for 17 Years

This website is 17 years old, so about half my life Chicken Maker has been here as one of my main creative outlets. Even after all this time I'm still not quite sure what this is supposed to be exactly. Mmm... I'll just keep calling myself a fake artist.

Here's some of my favorites from this year.

These blocked out wallpapers are nice. 
Blue Nights

It's St. Patty's day so I guess a jig?
Little Dance

I actually did a lot of cowboys this year?
This is the only one with boots though.
Sepia

Magicians are one of the core funny hats
Card Trick

Red cultists are for Devils and green are for Cthulhus
Red Cultist

I'm still doing this faux NFT generator project.
Actually posting them feels like junk content though?
One Chicken

I'm also fond of Invisible, but it was already green. Happy St. Patrick's Day and I'll talk to you again, real soon.

Brown Hat

This bird's got a brown hat. Only distinctive feature worth mentioning as it heads into battle(?) one more time
 

Edges

 

Small detailed lines are fun, but are admittedly not that clearly visible so I've included a zoomed in version of this graphic and its three variants

Tall

This bird is tall. Not that I believe in things like that or anything, but I'm pretty sure that's how perspective works.

Baseball Season

As seems to happen every year Baseball season is coming. Really Spring Training is already in full swing. Get out and toss the ball around.

All I actually do is visit the batting cages a couple times a year though?

Small Brush

The tiny little 2x2 square brush is one I don't use very much. It lacks the smoothness that even the 4x4 circle brings in.

I don't know what kind of youths are on here, but the clear standard that was MS Paint has really changed over the years. I still use the Windows 98/XP flavor of MS Paint so there's only 12 "brushes", round (1x1, 4x4, 7x7), square (2x2, 5x5, 8x8), and the two diagonals (2x2, 5x5, 8x8)

Blacklight – February 2026 Wallpaper

From the depths of a blacklight poster in the back of a questionable store in a shopping mall we bring you the latest in MS Paint Chicken art. This isn't actually what those looked like, but it's filled with a nostalgic feeling.

I haven't made a new vertical wallpaper in a while and when it comes to my phone background it's just going to need to stay a little on the gaudy side so this felt fresh.

Thank you as always to my supporters on Patreon and everywhere else on the net!

Scrawls

Top Left is my favorite, but they're all pure and visceral displays of my primal emotions. Slyness, franticness, and of course being a squishy sleepy boy.

Space Chickens – December 2025 Wallpaper

We may be slightly behind on our regularly scheduled content, which is strange because I don't even have a schedule.

This, obviously, is based on my reliable Fantasy Football branding as the Space Chickens. Had it been posted in December I would tell you we were right in there, going the distance, competing for the Championship wrestling belt. Instead I'll tell you I lost in the end. But it's really all about the random trash talk we shared along the way. 

Enjoy these colorful chickens, and their mysterious home world.

Duel

Is it east vs west, or man against man?

As usual, the answer is no. These are chickens. Probably from the same place. Potentially brothers?

Brother against brother, like north vs south...