This was just a whimsical approach to making my chat buddies smile.
An online friend was feeling sick, and since I couldn't be there in person,
I sent her a picture of some chicken soup:

I consider it a bit of a bomb, as my friend didn't think it was all that funny,
and I had spent quite a bit of time drawing the darn thing pixel-by-pixel in MS-Paint.
That's right, no gradients here... that filled shading was anti-aliased by hand.