Fan Submission

A guy I know (coworker) asked if I accepted art. The answer is of course I do  Send me fan work through Twitter, Facebook, tumblr or email. Or whatever else I have. Now let's talk about what's wrong with this

First and foremost it was made with one of the fancier brushes in the modern MS Paint (Though I think this version is also defunct now in favor of Paint 3D), grease pen I believe, so it lacks precision. The chicken's feathers have a texture, which is nice  but it's entirely the wrong texture. It's better to just leave it flat.

This piece is rather large, but didn't add much with all the extra canvas. The shading on the comb and waddle is nice, but the background is visible through, as the dark part wasn't drawn over the edge, but around the main portion.

Overall, a decent chicken and a solid first attempt. The fill on the body isn't complete, with the background visible through the colors. Most importantly it was not saved as a jpeg. This is the most important thing as it is the biggest problem I've seen with what people have sent me in the past.

Happy Birthday to Me

Feels good man.

Shades McCoolguy Fan Art

I received this a while ago and forgot to post it here somehow. Everyone. Look at this thing Karisean drew for us. Based of course on the popular Shades McCoolguy series. I mean... This is really good. My only objection is that his shades aren't pointy enough.

Link to this image on Karisean's DeviantArt

Filled Fan Character Sheet

I got a fan art. It's a filled out Chicken Heroics Character Sheet. Now obviously this guy, goes by the name Cypriss, doesn't know the rules of Chicken Heroics since I haven't released them to anyone but a few people who are helping me with the development. He did suggest that Seeds be a ranged weapon and I have no argument with that.

Now onto the key point. This is just some bad art. Those blank eyes are slightly disorienting. I just feels wide. I don't like the way the beak looks... I like clearer divisions between things. Not sure what I don't like about the comb. Well look, I'm more happy that fan art than I am upset about bad art. I feel like I'm letting you all down by not tearing it apart though... :-(

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

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.

April Fools: New System

So, I have decided that my drawing chickens can be curtailed in the interest of more member-base interaction. I'm not saying I'm not gonna post anymore chickens of my own or anything. I'm just saying I'm going to shift the focus. Also I think I'll go with larger posts rather than many short posts. Also I added labels for the artists who have made multiple contributions [Mozer, Briones, and Beth Harvey(on that note Miss Harvey. Do you have a preference on what I call you?)] to both make them easier to find and to add an incentive to participate. Of course I'll also link to your site if you provide one for me to link back to.

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Well well. If it isn't Beth Harvey again. Fancy clown. I like the cross eyed mask. Makes it kinda old school. Needs more accessories. And it's like he has a receding comb-line, though as a clown perhaps that was part of the point.  Also a jpeg.

Fan Chicken #1 by Beth Harvey

I might love you if you hadn't sent me not one, but TWO chickens saved as jpegs. Nice effort on the chicken though. I dislike the beak style but it's pretty legit. Like in the cartoons. Comb's poorly built and doesn't connect into the head at all. The tears cover up the eye, which doesn't look like it was very good to begin with.

Chicken Knight by Briones

Too bulky human with a chicken face. I expect better from you Briones. Old Chicken Knight was a million times better.

WHO CAN FACE HIM by Briones

Okay Briones. The fire does make it somewhat better, but what sorta racist message are you trying to send. Why is the finished version of chicken face white while the unfinished is brown. As usual though. I do like your fire.

Still Life by Briones

Briones... Chickens can't fly. Though I do like his evil plan to blow up that pyramid. Oh, and I don't know the author but Tom Robbin's "Still Life with Woodpecker" was clever. Trying to beat me to the punch on my own challenge, eh? Anyways. the comb needs to have more overlap with the head.

Fin by Chicken Maker Kaloo

 Another great piece by the Chicken Maker. Not much else to say really

Anyways. That's all for this time. Let's do this again some time ladies and gentlemen. You know. Once I've accumulated enough fan chickens.(send 'em in!) I promise to be gentler with my critiques if you come quickly.

Avion Affection

Briones sent me a Fan Work again. Nice to hear from him I suppose. Here he presented MINECRAFT! It's a great game and his block chicken is great work. But the chicken he drew is terrible. Those eyes look like gobbledy-gook. The beak is shaped stupid. The first and second panels are identical, but that's not really an issue. It's just a normal delay. thing. The top of the wattle is flat. I Mean I usually mush it into the beak, but it's certainly not flat. At least gotta have an angle on it.

And I like the pixelated heart. That is all

Scoot

Yeah. Another guest chicken. This one from MozerSmozer who sill needs a website so I have something to link to. Also you're just getting a chat log.

9:40 PM - MozerSmozer: http://img838.imageshack.us/i/scoutchicken.png/
9:41 PM - Kaloo: What did you do boy...
9:41 PM - MozerSmozer: ees Scout Chicken
9:41 PM - Kaloo: Why didn't you disable the antialiasing?
9:42 PM - MozerSmozer: wait what?
9:42 PM - MozerSmozer: I did no such thing
9:42 PM - Kaloo: So you claim you did disable it?
9:42 PM - MozerSmozer: new MS Paint just sucks
9:42 PM - Kaloo: Yeah, you gotta disable the antialiasing
9:43 PM - Kaloo: But I'll take the simple fact of new MS paint suck into account while I mock your absurd lack of wattle
9:44 PM - MozerSmozer: I'm not a wattle man I guess
9:44 PM - MozerSmozer: didn't do it on the other on etheir
9:45 PM - Kaloo: that's true enough.

So yeah. Team Fortress 2

Striking Body

I thought I'd try and add a body to your striking chicken. It didn't come out too bad did it? I love your blog by the way. The chickens are all amazing and yes its ok for you to write about your day. Its funny how you like to eat chickens and yet you draw them.... well ok its not that funny. Its was funny 5 minutes ago... oh well. I'll keep it short. Keep up the awesome work. 
-Beth Harvey 

Thanks for  making an effort. It didn't come out badly at all. Always nice to hear back from you people. Well. It's quite acceptable, but it still isn't good enough. I just can't even visualize the right answer to this body.

Punk Chicken

Dear Chicken Maker, I've been looking through your blog and I really like what you I see. I stumbled across your guest posts, and I was inspired, I hope you like this chicken. He's a punk chicken, I apologise if you've already done one and I've missed it. I'll never be as good as you, but I just wanted to try my hand at chicken creation.

Oh, and I had one question as well. Do you have any tips you can give me, as a new blogger, on how to get my website seen by people. I've created a facebook fan site and have attempted to share it through friends, and friends of the friends and so on. How do did you get yours to be as popular as it is?

Many thanks Louie Neale of The Third Side Story ( http://3rdsidestory.blogspot.com/ ) :)


Okay. I got a fan chicken a while ago but I forgot to post it up, so here we go!

My issues with this chicken are as follows: Firstly. The image is WAY too big. It makes it hard to get a grasp of the whole picture. The wattle is a bit too off the face and attached to the beak rather than the face.(An easy mistake to make) The body is too large and doesn't peak off sharply enough.

But well.... you got passion Louie. And I can hardly expect someone's first attempt to be aces.

And as far as a punk chicken. I hadn't... though I did make a couple chicken punks.

As for advice. Facebook's lame. I almost never told a soul I knew about the site and almost all my traffic comes from the link posted on the extremely popular Hyperbole and a Half, which you should stop being one of the 10-bajillion rip-offs of. Though I suppose it would be more fitting to say that Hyperbole launched a whole genre of blogs, but regardless you'll never stand out unless you do it on your own. Which based on your latest turtle drawing... I don't know where I'm going with all of this. I have no idea how Allie found my site to begin with... I started to ramble about things...

My advice is to make a niche for yourself. There ain't nothin' like this site! And that is the only reason that I garner any interest at all. Also being totally awesome.

A Fan Made Robot

Hi there, 
Seeing as how I’ve been both very bored and broke for the past week or so, I’ve been spending loads of time on the internets.
I found your blog a couple weeks ago and have been checking in every couple days to see what’s new.. I really appreciate your work.
So much so that I was inspired to create something of my own. Mind you, it has nothing to do with chickens, but like I said, I’m bored and broke, so I need cheap entertainment. This is my first real attempt at MS art..
I guess I’m just sending this because it was inspired by your chicken rainbow and nobody’s around right now for me to show it to.
His coat kinda came out pixilated.. I think that’s just because I was using fine lines. I wanted to put a flower on his lapel, but I’m not at that level yet. My idea for him was a timid kind of robot butler, or perhaps waiter at a classy establishment. Hmmm.. Anyways, enjoy!
 
Regards,
Mike


Thank you Mike for showing me your first attempt, even if it isn't a chicken. And thank you for being a fan of mine. I know it's a bit rude but I'm going to pick at it.

First things first. Mike saved his robot butler as a BMP, which is good(unlike jpeg) but not web friendly. It's best to save as a PNG. As for the coat. There's nothing wrong with a bit of pixelation, but since you used gray for the outlines you probably should have colored the whole coat black(maybe with a red tie). I'm supportive of the fact that he had a simple idea behind him. He's a classy robot servant. It's a good base. I must say his slightly crooked grin makes him look a bit evil though.  I actually rather like the floatation rings. Your biggest problem is the tophat.You have the band placed midway up but that goes at the brim, like so.(Sorry. that's rather abstract looking. This earlier rather terrible one may be better)

At any rate your robot looks about on the level of this robot. And I rather like ole batwings there.

Sorry about the lack of  chicken this post. I'll have another up later today

The Moze Knows

Okay someone took me up on that "If you have a guest chicken" thing pretty quickly. I'm more than happy to accept it you understand.

This is a Spawn Chicken. It was made by "mozersmozer," a styling young lad. Now he actually sent me a jpeg earlier but he knew he should be ashamed of it and withdrew it because he's all sorts of awesome. He then remade it and submitted what you see now.

Now, I like it and all but I must say it gives me the impression of a penguin. Probably the lack of a waddle. I mentioned that to him and he just shot me a "Don't need it." so I'm sure he knew. The comb feels a bit tacked on since it lacks the shading the rest of the image sports but I can't really hold that against him.

I was a fan of Spawn so I can really appreciate this one. I can also say I wish those eyes were more glow-y.

Oh, anyone interested can see the one he withdrew here. Real awesome guy redoing it like that.

Briones Sucks Now

 

You know I used to think that Briones might be better than me just because his looked nicer and he had more talent. But this one has restored my faith. Firstly it's a jpg which as I've explained numerous times means you just don't care. You see jpgs leave all sorts of artifacts on colors. Also the bottoms don't match up at all. I'll admit that the exploding eye is pretty good. I wouldn't have ever thought of it after all. It's a real shame that despite his talent he doesn't put very much real caring or passion into it.

I unfortunately don't have enough energy to explain to you more thoroughly right now internet but just remember that I'm the best.

If anyone would like to submit some sort of guest chicken then get me at kaloo0 on AIM.

"hold the line!" by Briones

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 Yes, that's right. It's time for another guest chicken from Briones. He's great at this but only in short bursts. Tomorrow's his birthday so I decided I have to completely crush this one with my next. It really is nice though. See how he's got that nice fire. I just can't pull off that sort of fire. Really I can't give some in depth commentary on it and it is pretty solid. The only real problem with it is that it should have been a Chicken Knight vs. a giant fire breathing chicken. I mean come on. That's just simple logic that is.

Fan Work by Briones

You see... This is what it's all about. The technical skill, the color choice, and especially the passion. They all shine through in this one. New Challanger! has it all. I'm not sure if it was a lack of caring or just good ole American ingenuity but I don't even mind that he mangled the spelling of Challenger.

I wanna see more like this. It sets a new standard!

Guest Chicken, from Cory Marinecz

This is the first time I've gotten any 'fan' work so I suppose I should be flattered but it's so awful that I can't bring myself to it.  Included with the image was the following quote "This is a sad chicken with a top hat and an identity crisis. :(" And being as this is a first I've decided to crush it with a 5 paragraph essay! The problems are the lack of structure, the contrasting colors and the lack of passion by the artist.

The structure is a complete mess. The porportions are terrible. The feet are poorly structured. However the artist's lack of technical efficiency can be forgiven by his inexperience in the field. Despite this some attributes are simply unacceptable. The "top hat" isn't a top hat at all. What is seen in this image is a tophat. What this is wearing appears to be something like one of those samurai basket hats.

The contrasting colors used in the image are awful. When I consulted him he told me that it was to represent the identifty crisis the chicken was suffering from. This might have been acceptable if he'd at least used duller less vibrant colors, but looking good comes before procuring a message. Of course the orange bit just looks awkward. Everyone knows it should be red after all.

Finally his lack of passion for the suject is simply obvious. This was obvious from his analysis, which seemed like a tacked on after thought. He knew it wouldn't be clear without it and yet it is just a jotted down set of jibberish. The fact that he saved it as a JPEG in paint, which is known for it's quality loss when using JPEG, shows that he just didn't care at all. 

In conclusion the work of Cory Marinecz lacks in many qualities, from his technical ability and his color selection to his lack of passion bringing down the work.  If he'd had more firey passion for his work, a stronger stylistic sense, or more technical skills the work could have stood as a fine example of what this site is all about. Unfortunately this one will never find itself so inclined, not even at the level of Two Days Too Late, during the creation of which I completely lacked any passion or style.