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June 30, 2026

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.

June 19, 2026

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.

June 17, 2026

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.

June 14, 2026

jaggies

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

June 13, 2026

Data

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

June 10, 2026

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? 

May 31, 2026

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

May 28, 2026

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.

May 19, 2026

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
 

May 18, 2026

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.

May 14, 2026

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.
 

May 07, 2026

Chalk

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

May 02, 2026

Swirling

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

April 29, 2026

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.

April 26, 2026

Dots


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

April 24, 2026

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.

April 19, 2026

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.

April 11, 2026

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.

April 05, 2026

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.

March 31, 2026

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

March 23, 2026

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.
March 17, 2026

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.

March 15, 2026

Brown Hat

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

March 14, 2026

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

March 10, 2026

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.

March 04, 2026

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?

March 02, 2026

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)

March 01, 2026

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!

February 27, 2026

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.

February 24, 2026

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.
February 23, 2026

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...

February 22, 2026

Twirls

Just scribble some loop-de-loops until you have an art. Try it at home.

February 18, 2026

Little Dance

Oh yeah, check out those moves. Not every day you see a chicken do a little dance. Definitely seductive or intimidating or whatever it's trying to do.
 

February 11, 2026

Wild West

Chickens come in green, but that color just feels wrong to me when I see it. Birds should be more neutral colors like Brown, Beiges, Black, Gray, White... I don't know why I feel that way because I will look at a bluejay or cardinal without a second thought.

This dark green chicken would have a big iron on his hip, but doesn't have hands to actually draw.

February 04, 2026

Nighttime Birding

Just imagine. It's late at night. You've in the city. Trash strewn around the alley. You've been being a bird all day. Now it's time for your Nighttime Birding

Blue-tint is still the best way you make it night.

February 03, 2026

Overflowed

This guy's got just a teensy bit too much flow going on. By which I mean I intentionally made all of the linework a little too long so there's a weird ugly overlap.

 

February 02, 2026

One Chicken (More?)

 

More colorways. We can have multiple colors on one bird. I tend to like a darker head and wing just as a random thing I've done on here for years. 

Inverting is gaudy, but we obviously can't not include that.


February 01, 2026

One Chicken (Ribbon?)

How should I describe this project... What if I'd done NFTs? Shuffling colors, backgrounds, random nonsense bonus elements. I think the way those generated was neat. It's a shame it was buried in a crypto scam.

Once I feel I have enough of these I'll parse them back out into their various elements and make an interactive version so you can make your very own One Chicken

Forever ago I made a Flash game called "400 chickens" that was just a basic picker with 3 or 4 options and it hit 400 with way less than I expected so this will probably have at least a couple thousand potential chickens?

January 28, 2026

One Chicken (Start)

Okay, I'm back. New Project. Just this One Chicken. We're just gonna keep doing this one. These two to start...

Probably should have opened with a more standard coloration? Well whatever. That can come later