I Drew the Chess Pieces as characters

complete with inspirational quotes. I am also an unprofessional artist.

"To truly possess strength. You need bravery, knowledge, and most of all; large numbers!"

-The Pawn

"Moving in an L shape is merely for vanity's sake. To be a true knight, one must also be able to accept Ls when they come up. Not even a horse is perfect."

-The Knight

"Our creator, our days of fighting for no reason are to be cherished. Follow me, young pawns. Diagonally is how god intended us to move. Only one color square is key, we are too great to go straight, my people!"

-The Bishop

The rook becomes the below image only when moving

"Uncertainty in a great battle gets nobody anywhere at all. Take it from me and move straight forward, never let anything stop you in your tracks and you can be unstoppable pal."

-The Rook

"Every man, woman and horse deal with adversity on the daily. It matters not what, and who you are, nobody can define your purpose. Always push to be what you want!"

-The Queen

"Polygamy is fine as long as the women can help you fight to the death!"

-The King

if you wanna suggest a fairy or made up chess piece, i may draw it next. Cheerio.

If you cannot see images for some reason, i dunno how this works but you can try these links;

The Pawn

The Knight

The Bishop

The Rook (1)

The Rook (2)

The Queen

The King

How many times must i say it?! i am by no means a professional. Why else do you think my name is Unprofessional???

Anyhow thanks. I can create more drawings, just give a suggestion or two...

The suggestion has to be an existing chess piece (fairy or from other versions) or an idea for one u have. This is the rule.

Wow, this is legendary.

before anybody asks what program i used, i honestly don't know. Just googled a drawing program and went with the first result... Don't even remember the name.

lol amazing

Sure, why not? It beats most of what’s posted in the general chess discussion section.

I thought the drawings in the center symbolized the movements, but when I see the one with the horse, it seems a little strange. I guess it's because I'm not a professional artist either

I wanted to give the pieces some life without entirely removing what they are (like other artistic interpretations of chess pieces typically do)

Also the reason the king talks about polygamy is because you can have multiple queens in online chess. Let that sink in.

several thanks to whoever clicked on this forum. If this receives enough attention, i will post similar drawings of a couple fairy pieces (those extra pieces you can find in the 4 player and variants section. an example is the camel which is an elongated 1x3 knight)

you welcome, I love the sad face on the horse's nose, could you draw a version for the black pieces too

I don't think i will be able to do the black side for now. apologies

I'm just sticking to a single color to keep things simple. Besides the black side would look exactly the same but black.

Actually, you can convert the pieces to black by using the invert colour function in paint.

They just exist as images in google drive. I'll see what i can do.

Took me way too long, but here's the Black King! complete with a slightly different expression.

stay tuned to see the other guys in a black tint.

The black variants are completed finally.

The cloud like shapes behind the queen were a mistake, and she's supposed to have a wine glass.

The black pawn

The Black Knight has one bigger sword

The rook does the exact opposite, he dual wields.

and lastly, the black bishop is just spiteful that he has to go 2nd all the time.

yahoo to all of you.

now with the new black models anyone can access them and play a chess match without problem

They're not meant to be played with, only looked at as you rethink how chess was designed to begin with. But alright, just give credit if you can.