Same Chicken Post #3 (Rounder And Cuter Style, Borderless Style, Silhouette)

Yeah, this one might not count as a style I use. I mean I've only drawn two so far, and one of them was just a bit ago. Still it was my intention from the start to use it from time to time. After all there's always room for a cuter cuddlier version of things from time to time, isn't there? Anyways to explain the basic style. First everything is rounded, plus I made the outline using the large circle brush, instead of the middle one. I like the nice round eyes, though those were a newer decision. Lastly I shaded it lightly with a lighter version of the color thinly on one edge. Plush. Plush... Plush isn't a sound effect is it?

This is one of the earliest things I tried after I started. By dropping the outlines I was able to more easily change the shapes of things to suit my needs. In my first few chickens I didn't have a very good feel for how things should be shaped so being able to change them as I went was a very helpful ability. In this one in particular there isn't much of a change from my usual style but if I were doing something fancier I'd have had to make sure not to put any similarly colored bits next to each other.

And lastly the Silhouette. I would never have been able to post up just this. The only time I really do up these sorts of things is when I'm focusing on effects in the background or something else complicated. In this case I decided to leave the eye uncolored because it looked really lazy just putting up a black blob. Anyways the difference in the creation phase is that I need to make the details more extended from the body. After all anything overlapping just gets buried and you don't see it at all. (try copying one of my other chickens into Paint and dump everything black if you don't understand)

W.

Here is W. It's actually a lot smaller than the other letters in my series of letters. I'm not really sure when I started thinking of W as being 2 parts. I mean I do, but yeah.I like that little interlocking thing I've got going on with it. I probably should've made the outside edges jut out some, but I lost track of the size and thought it was big until I finished and realized it was relatively tiny.

Firework Day!

Well, at this time last year I ended up finding a picture of fireworks on Google and editing it up in Photoshop. This year I felt confident enough to do the fireworks freehand.  I think they look pretty good, especially the green one, which looks like a flower to me for some reason.

For those of you outside the US, who didn't pick up any of our culture from the hit films, I'm American and this is Independence Day. We celebrate it with festive fireworks.

This post was a scheduled post so I decided to put it up at 7:04 AM, since 7/04 is July 4th.

Doc Round

Now, I know what you're thinking. Whoa whoa whoa. The Chicken Man is postin' up FOUR things today!? That guy barely even posts one thing a day. This is true but I don't care.
This is Doctor Round. he's the refinement of my Rounder And Cuter Style. I think I made some nice cute eyes for him. You know, the weakness of the original Rounder And Cuter. And you know he's got a stethoscope since he's a Doctor.

Normal Human Person

Here we have a normal human person. You know, working on humans as a distraction from my normal practice of making chickens. You know how it is. It gets a bit dull from time to time. I know, usually when I do something blatantly not a chicken I have the common decency to include some sort of chicken with it but I mean I've already posted up two chickens today, so it's not that bad.

Same Chicken Post #2 (Gritty Sharpness)

Here I present another work in the 'Gritty Sharpness' style. As I originally said way back it's basically an imitation of black and white cell shading. First I draw up the line-art then I apply the thick black shading on one of the sides. The sharp contrast brings out a unique effect which I feel helps draw out a more striking appearance. The Gritty Sharpness is something I like to consider as a signature look for this site, though in reality I have less than a dozen actually done up in this style.

Slugger

Yay, baseball. I went to a game last night so I was in the mood for it.  It was just a little minor league(Class A to be specific) game but those are nice. I mean I could never afford seats like I had at a Major League game. Right behind first base. Literally two rows of people between me and the game.

Anyways I gave this guy a heavy set, wider than my usual style. You know, since he's a tough guy who can knock the ball right outta the park. His uniform is blue, because it didn't look match up with any of his other colors. The 'C'  on his hat is, of course, for Chickens.

Same Chicken - Post #1 (BCM Style, ACM Style, Abstract)

Well, I'm starting a new project. One that's less 'sophisticated' and 'story having' than the others. In this project I will explore the range of my styles by remaking the exact same chicken a while bunch of times.  The chicken will be brown(if color is involved), facing left, the top of the wing visible, on a purple backdrop, with the size 242x246. Using these basic attributes I will demonstrate my artistic range of making chickens in MS Paint. I'm starting it off with three, since otherwise it would just be one chicken and not a very interesting one.

 Well, I suppose it's rather obvious that I'll be opening this project with the 'Basic Chicken Maker Style,' as I've come to think of it.  The basic style I apply is to make an outline, using the middle round brush in paint, with vague shapes for the details, such as the beak, wattle and comb. Following that I dump in colors using the paint bucket tool. I'll be honest with you. My basic style is very simple and easy to do. That's why it's the basic style.

And I'm following up on explaining the basic style with the 'Advanced Chicken Maker Style.' These tend to be more striking, with a sharper more compact appearance. I still tend toward the middle round brush while working on these. The key difference though is in the nature of the coloring. While my first step is still to dump it full of colors I follow that up with using advanced methods to shade along the edges. (The advanced method involves cutting and pasting with different colors being transparent in case you're curious)

  This isn't really one of my usual styles. I've only thrown together a few 'Abstract' chickens. I stick to what I said on the original. Abstract art is the kind of art you make when you wanna do art without actually working on the details. You just toss it together quickly leaving an impression of whatever you're designing without thinking about it too much. If you're lucky it'll look nice in the end. Yes, I know that abstract art is hard to do. You need to ignore everything you've learned in order to draw out of your usual style.

Hero Black/White

Well, I've refined the character design for my comic character. A bit simplified. Yeah, I know I gave him some funny looking feet, but they're easy to do consistently. Also, the comic'll be in black and white(and grays). It looks nice and it's easier to make nice looking Black and White than to make nice looking color. You have to do a lot of shading work to improve the style of color. Color covers though. And my plan is to release this in chapters instead of pages like most web comics do. So, I need an opinion. Should I do all of the thumbnails going down the page or should I do a list of links or should I do something fancier? I'm not sure how that last one works but you know.

Also I killed the link within somehow, but whatever that thing was kinda stupid anyways.

V.

V has always seemed like a rather angular letter to me. Perhaps because it's just one sharp point. For this reason I used no curves in the production of V. I also, at a later point in the design process, decided to use only colors that would be purely a blend of 255 and 0. The striking result is here.