The Art of Ed Dyer.: My first Mural Pizza Hut Call Centre March 2005 Ed...

The Art of Ed Dyer.: My first Mural Pizza Hut Call Centre March 2005 Ed...: This was the first mural I was ever commissioned to paint.  Pizza Hut sign at the top of the stair well leading to the office.  ...

My first Mural Pizza Hut Call Centre March 2005 Ed Dyer

 This was the first mural I was ever commissioned to paint.



Pizza Hut sign at the top of the stair well leading to the office.



I had been working at the Pizza Hut Call Centre in Sydney for a few years since leaving the Disney Studio, I was studying (kind of) at the time at TAFE. The place provided at the time was one of the greatest social outlets a bored 20- something could ask for and the meagre income was also a bonus.

It was the tail end of the summer of 2004, the work was easy, (bordering on the mind numbing) but still it was a great place to work nonetheless, it was a normal day just like every other one I got off the train jumped the fence through the military base and showed up to work as I'd done countless times for another forgettable shift that would undoubtedly be spent making little sideways glances at the cuter of the co-workers watching Big Brother, (one of the first useless reality shows) with the sound off and patiently staring the clock until I could scoot home early, or the iPhone was invented. 

It was on this day I found one of the office pamphlets to be most interesting (given that up until then it was mostly motivational garbage about not using the same spoon for sugar and instant coffee) it was a competition to find a design for a mural for the call centre entrance, before then all there was was a nice nicotine stain. Needless to say...I won!


My original design that scored me the commission.



Part of the feature wall leading up the stairs.

This pig was in the doorway

Super Supremo, Delivering Swift Cheesy Justice.

The first Call Centre "Phone-Jack-in-the-Box" Heads

34 Degrees South Mural process shots 2011

Photos: copyright Elise Watson

 More of the mural painting process, basically these are painted in massive panels, think Secret Wars but somewhat slower. 


The basic design outline of the piece is sketched out on the wall in willow charcoal, is then painted over with black oil based enamel.


The colouring or in this case the various grey tones are mixed and applied this can be messy, potentially toxic work work so I can't stress the O.H and S enough. 


If you are going to do one of these remember. 

• Work slowly but thoroughly- don't rush these things but don't drag it out.

• Invest in disposable rubber gloves, if you can get a box of 100 on the cheap they'll not only save you a lot of grief when you go to touch your face, scratch, eat etc. And you can greatly avoid washing your hands in turpentine.   





• Have a separate brush for each colour or tone, preferably a big brush and a small brush, and a tiny brush for ultra-fine work.

• Keep these brush sets with each colour and have a separate container for each. 

• Brushes are inexpensive for the most part, for the big brush you do better to go to the hardware store, the mid size brush you can find in most variety stores (please note that most of these are extremely poor quality with bristles that may fall out and flimsy handles) 



 There will be more tips to come stick around and watch this space.


Cheers


-Ed Dyer

P.S. I would like to give a shout out to Elise Watson
Without whom the filming and much needed conversations kept me company and who's wonderful patience and serene temperament is matched only by her beauty...;)
http://on.fb.me/skwR95

Biscuit Magazine November 2011

http://www.biscuitmagazine.com.au/issues/

My first publication with an online magazine :D Includes interview and samples of my mural concept work, my caricatures and my Vampentine's Day card.

http://issuu.com/biscuitmagazine/docs/issue14/22?zoomed=true&zoomPercent=50&zoomXPos=0.9457013574660633&zoomYPos=0.4602888086642599

http://bit.ly/ryew7X

34 Degrees South Mural 2011

This is the mural I painted in May of 2011. A combination of enamel and water based paint. Approximately 18 sqm of wall coverage.  


I was called in to design for 34 Degrees South, Food, Wine, Music a restaurant and night club on Bondi Beach in Sydney.


Though this was rendered much faster in this video the whole thing took approximately a week and 2 days. Which for the size of the wall space would have to be the fastest indoor mural I've ever done.


I would also like to acknowledge the following who helped make this happen: The owner and proprieter thank you for the opportunity to make this, Elise and Amy who not only made me look good as supporting groupies but helped out with the recording of the photos and videos. 


http://http//on.fb.me/rzpA1V

http://bit.ly/vMuQ4i

Snoop Drawing Dogg 2011 Ed Dyer

This is the first video of an example of my drawing, basically I find an image online that I like. In this I used Snoop Dogg fairly well known celebrity.

• I show the pencil sketch, (which due to the size of the movie can't be seen for the most part) t

• Then the inking- (which comes with equally high speed commentary) ^___^

• Finally the colouring 

This isn't so much a tutorial but a short about drawing caricatures, I would recommend this as a job for anyone who can draw and likes to draw too.


Hope you enjoy.


-Ed 

Halloween at Luna Park Sydney 2011

These are the faces of my first foray into Halloween characters, Tweeny, Steiny, B.N. Feratu and of course Blagoon.

I'd been meaning to do something in that vein for a while and developing these personalities from their humble beginnings, on the many, many pieces of A4 print paper I'm forever scribbling on. It was fun.

Tweeny here is a cross between my very 1980's homage to werewolf schlock movies and the overtly wholesome stuff that passes for that kind of thing these days.


His name is a simple play on words between Teen Wolf, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090142/ and "Tween" the asinine buzz word zeitgeisted onto a generation of kids who've known of no life before the internet.


His design essentially I wanted to portray a scruffy fun kind of personality, and to remember my late grandfather... I understand how weird that is but it's my cartoon!

 Steiny, came about due to my fascination with the whole Frankenstein's monster thing, that and who couldn't be fascinated by him especially since Michael Jackson's no longer around. But seriously.


The name is simple as the design itself Steiny, as in stein, as in look at that mug will ya! Looks like he lost a bet and has to use his face to tighten the bolts on the neck of the bigger monster.


The idea behind Steiny, the idea of the self made man... made man... that's man made or what happens when you take a corpse to get pimped put is a pretty cool one!


The original story by Mary Shelley, something she began writing at age 18 and finished at 21 is kind of fitting, one of the greatest horror stories of all time was conceived by some teenage goth chick!

 B.N Feratu, now let me be as abundantly clear as possible, vampires despite their weaknesses; the traditional being, wooden stakes through the heart, sunlight, garlic and the less conventional being boring bland high school girls with the personality of fly paper. Are, for want of a better word, resilient creatures.


I mean just picture it, according to the (at this point) mostly phoned in or tweeted folklore these monsters are not only shape shifting, cruel, calculated demonic predators stalking an otherwise oblivious herd from the shadows living immortally needing to fest on the blood and appearing to their prey as pure seduction.


They also like writing in their diaries, ponies and lots of awkward platonic hugs!


I wanted B.N Feratu to be what a vampire, to me at least, has only ever represented, A DORK!

So finally, last but not least the Creature from the Black Lagoon, underrated, underrepresented and primarily water based- like with any team, someone has to be Aquaman.

These characters appeared for the Halloscream 3 day Halloween at Luna Park Sydney, as display pieces at my booth.

Please watch this space, there's more to come.

Cheers

-Ed