June 30, 2010
U.
By
Chicken Maker
8:05 PM
When it came to making U. I was left in a state of uncertainty. What would be a good U? Nothing immediately came to mind. I though, perhaps the chicken would roost in the bottom of the U. Strangely this idea quickly lost it's appeal. With myself uncertain about it I abandoned it. Eventually I glanced the beak. It's almost a shame I didn't use this for C.
T.
By
Chicken Maker
8:01 PM
Well, as happens every so often I'm releasing a spew of my alphabet letters. I'm excited. I'm almost done with this project.
SHWA-BAM! This is the letter "T" Usually it looks like a tall line with a wide line dropped on top of it. I decided to add a bit of flare on the left side so it wasn't boring. Then I went to myself, "But where does the chicken go..." Then the lower-case hit me. "t" Little thing popping off the top. And I was like, "Okay!"
So that's that as far as T. goes.
SHWA-BAM! This is the letter "T" Usually it looks like a tall line with a wide line dropped on top of it. I decided to add a bit of flare on the left side so it wasn't boring. Then I went to myself, "But where does the chicken go..." Then the lower-case hit me. "t" Little thing popping off the top. And I was like, "Okay!"
So that's that as far as T. goes.
June 27, 2010
Kung-Fu Comeback!
By
Chicken Maker
12:32 PM
Well, I decided to let the Kung-Fu Chicken make a comeback because I wanna watch the Karate Kid(Starring Will Smith's son and Jackie Chan) some time. Maybe when it shifts into the Dollar Theater in a month or so I'll catch it. Anyways... WHA-CHA! Kung-Fu Chicken is deep in his training. Balancing himself on a log sticking out of the sea. He ain't even near any docks or anything like that. He stands strong against the striking world of swirls he lives in.
June 26, 2010
Circles Are Fun
By
Chicken Maker
5:18 PM
Circles are a fun shape to play with. Well, more accurately I was playing with ellipses when I made this, and I got to have fun pretending they were all semitransparent. I think it all came off looking like it was, aside from the orange on the yellow brown mix but I couldn't find a shade that looked better. Anyways, the reason that circles are good is that they are... Actually what I was about to say is expressly untrue. I was gonna say they're a shape that's easy to render in 3D, but you can't actually do that. Still, it's easy to construct things out of those not-spheres.
Sweeping Strokes
By
Chicken Maker
1:05 PM
Many works call for subtlety and gentle strokes, however if one is too subtle in their work it won't be noticed at all. For this reason I chose to use more distinct versions of the colors when I applied the shading. Originally I intended to use a white background but the contrast looked poor so I ended up settling for a gray one. I feel that the impression given by this piece leaves a smile on the face of the viewer.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you for your time.
June 22, 2010
Golden Light
By
Chicken Maker
5:34 PM
The monotonous golden mixture of yellow and orange contrasts wonderfully with the heavy black shading the artist used in some of his previous works. The choice to use the golden colors makes the light seem more distinct than in pieces where whit is used as the white generally feels passive. The shading leaves a hard striking impression while the background softly blends waves of yellow and gold.
June 19, 2010
Project Page Header
By
Chicken Maker
1:02 AM
I decided that my project page could use a bit of sprucing up so I thought a bit and decided it needed some sort of banner or header or soemthing. It needed at least one picture on it at any rate. So here it is:
It's got a general-use chicken on the left because that's what I do on this site, a chicken foot on the far right because I'm not very good at those and decided I needed to practice, though I probably shouldn't have done that on a semi-permanent thing... A chicken in flight in the middle because it seemed exciting. A generic version of Shades McCoolGuy is on the Bottom right for character. The background is a silver tipped wing because it came to me and the thing looked rather empty. Faded look was kinda hard to get right but I think I got it right..
It's got a general-use chicken on the left because that's what I do on this site, a chicken foot on the far right because I'm not very good at those and decided I needed to practice, though I probably shouldn't have done that on a semi-permanent thing... A chicken in flight in the middle because it seemed exciting. A generic version of Shades McCoolGuy is on the Bottom right for character. The background is a silver tipped wing because it came to me and the thing looked rather empty. Faded look was kinda hard to get right but I think I got it right..
June 18, 2010
S.
By
Chicken Maker
9:39 PM
Here we have a classic letter. The chicken is upside-down and the entire this is rather minimalistic, though I have gone a lot farther with that before. The chicken is upside-down because that was how he looked best. Questions? No. Okay, good.
June 16, 2010
Not A New Banner
By
Chicken Maker
5:35 PM
Well, I was messing around, thinking maybe I should change my banner. I mean I've had this one for a while. So I thought up a design and tossed it together. After a bit of "Eh... maybe"-ing I decided it wasn't good to go so I stamped the word alternate on the corner and decided to show you folks. Like I said though, I decided against it in the end. Probably because its too empty.
June 14, 2010
Constellation
By
Chicken Maker
11:46 PM
Well, I told you tune in for this one. It's a constellation. I'm sure you've seen them. Generally you just have 4-5 stars that vaguely look like a square and someone went, "Looks like a T-Rex to me" and BAM! T-Rex constellation. I put a tad more effort into this chicken. I purposely made it not like up with the actual look of a chicken but tried to make it still vaguely look like a chicken. If you're wondering why the lines connecting the stars are green it's because that's the color they are on star charts and the light blue was being used for the chicken form in the background.










