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This week’s DrawerGeeks was Game Shows.  I don’t know why I decided to go with this, other than it was fun frying an egg and flopping it on the scanner. Read on to see some making of stuff.


First up is the sketch. Sharpie on copier paper.

Next up I fried an egg. Then I scanned it in at about 3,000 dpi.

Here’s the egg as it’s getting incorporated into the illustration.

And here’s a little video showing the process I used in photoshop to put it together.

The final illustration again.

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Paul - March 20, 2008 - 7:43 pm

“Tell ‘em what they’ll win Johnny!”

Man, I’d love to be on that show…. although it’s pretty rough if you miss the super gravy bonus round.

mike - March 21, 2008 - 10:11 am

you are so, so awesome, bryan.

love that video music!

Jen - March 21, 2008 - 11:46 am

I am married to a man who puts fried eggs on sensitive, technologically advanced devices. Yep.

keith lango - March 21, 2008 - 1:15 pm

Jen, you love it and you know it.

Bryan- this one piece alone encapsulates the entirety of your creative career. And I mean that in the most complimentary of ways.

-k

Brian R. - March 21, 2008 - 1:52 pm

Bryan,
As Keith says, this piece really is the pinnacle of your food-on-sensitive technology experimentations.
Bravo, sir. Bravo.

Muffin - March 21, 2008 - 6:25 pm

haha, you are such a genious, Bryan. :) You were the king this time, no doubt.

Sarah! - March 21, 2008 - 9:25 pm

I wish this game was really on tv so I could watch it. Also now I want to eat fried eggs! Fancy work all round!

Jody - March 22, 2008 - 3:18 am

Bryan without a scanner is like a summer day without sunshine!
Hey, in response to your comment regarding that new illustration. It’s BIG ….28 ” sQUARE, JUST ABOUT! I just fedexed it off a few hours ago! :)

Andy J Smith - March 22, 2008 - 12:15 pm

Killer drawing!–even though I’m a scrambled egg guy!
The texture looks sweet especially against your loose, thick black lines!

bryan - March 22, 2008 - 6:44 pm

Paul, I’ve never scanned in any gravy. Yet.

Mike, ya, that music will eat your brain.

Jen, you’re the one who told me not to cook it over easy.

Keith, are you saying my career is fried?

Brian, I just wish I could actually have a career of food experimentation. Right now it’s still only a hobby. Food bombs ho!

Muffin, thanks!

Sarah, if only. If only.

Jody, yes, scanners are so much fun. Holy moly that painting is big.

Andy, hmmm. Scrambled eggs. Samurai. hmmm.

dugbuddy - March 23, 2008 - 5:40 pm

Hands down the best of the year so far for truly outside of the box (or shell) thinking. I need to build a monument to you sir. Yes, a monument.

bryan - March 24, 2008 - 1:11 pm

thanks Doug. Boxes, who needs ‘em.

Bruna Brito - March 24, 2008 - 1:44 pm

OMG! eggs on a scanner… very corageous, very brave.
amazing art as a result!!! BRAVO SIR BRYAN!
:D
b.

Juby - March 26, 2008 - 2:55 pm

This is fun…creativity….Great!

bryan - March 31, 2008 - 10:18 am

Hey, thanks Juby.

Cristina Irizarry Santiago - April 10, 2008 - 8:58 pm

Hahaha. I can`t believe you actually scanned a fried egg. I bet that scanner was real messy afterwards… lol

mikey kline - June 18, 2008 - 7:57 am

Dude,
Were you just grabbing screen shots on your Fried Egg (loved it) video, or do you have some kind of funky utility that occasionally grabs a frame? I’d love to show some kids how I work, and time-lapse would be a wonderful least-time-invested way to do it.
Keep up the Juan Der Fool work!
-mikey

bryan - June 18, 2008 - 10:40 am

Hey Mikey! Wow, your work is great, I love your cartoons and illustrations. I used a program called Camtasia. It records whatever you’re doing on screen and makes it into a movie. For this particular one, I just had tons of photoshop layers and just turned them all on in order and Camtasia recorded it for me. And then I panned around and zoomed in and out of the image. Pretty simple.

mikey kline - June 19, 2008 - 6:09 pm

Cool! Thanks for the info and kind words. BTW, i can’t tell you how many times I’ve wrapped my scanner with plastic wrap before a project. I think it’s sign of genius, eh? FOOD TEXTURES ROCK!

bryan - June 23, 2008 - 12:17 am

Yowza, you are far more advanced than I. I just slap whatever right onto the scanner and clean up afterwards with windex and paper towels. I do the same thing in the microwave!

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