The ink splatters and drip overlays are the main challenge in this how to draw Corrupted Ernie the Chicken tutorial, since they need to feel chaotic without losing the underlying rooster silhouette beneath them. Corrupted Ernie comes from the Friday Night Funkin’ mod roster, and getting that corrupted-mode aesthetic right takes careful line control.
What Makes This 30-Step Sketch Worth the Effort
The tutorial runs 30 steps and focuses entirely on line art with no color, so the challenge lives in the linework itself. The corrupted style means heavy black ink splatters sit on top of a structured bird figure, which requires working through two visual layers at once. The pose is upright and forward-facing, but the spread tail feathers and raised microphone add enough asymmetry to keep things moving throughout the build.
Corrupted Ernie at a Glance
- Rooster with comb and wattle on head
- Microphone raised up toward beak
- Apron or short skirt outfit on body
- Large tail feathers fanned behind body
- Clawed feet with striped legs, standing upright
If you enjoy drawing corrupted and glitch-style characters, the Boyfriend Doll sketch and Neo Monster are both worth checking out next. For another mod character with heavy ink-style linework, MX from MARIO.EXE follows a similar approach.
Reading the Step Colors
Each step image uses a three-color system to show progress clearly:
- Red Color: lines added in the current step.
- Black Color: lines completed earlier.
- Gray Color: base sketch for structure.
How to Draw Corrupted Ernie the Chicken: Step-by-Step Tutorial
Share Your Corrupted Ernie Drawing When You’re Done
Once the ink splatters are in and the linework is clean, drop your finished drawing in the comments below. Seeing how different artists handle the corrupted overlay is always interesting. New tutorials get posted to Facebook and Telegram the moment they go live, a new YouTube video based on existing guides goes up every day, and Pinterest stays updated regularly too. If you liked this one, Soul Tails and Pibby Monster Glenn Quagmire are two more corrupted-style FNF characters worth trying. Support the project on Patreon if you want access to unique hand-drawn coloring pages that go up there exclusively.