Getting Started with Your First Mural with Eric Friedensohn aka @Efdot

In this video, Eric Friedensohn (aka Efdot) and I chat about how he became a mural artist and how YOU can get started on large scale mural design as a beginner.
You’ll learn:
✔️Eric’s top tools for mural design
✔️How to use the tools in your tool box
✔️3 methods for transferring your design on to a wall
✔️Eric’s tips for success with mural painting
✔️The most he’s been paid for a commission
✔️AND SO MUCH MORE!
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Tools mentioned in this video:
✔️Paint brushes
✔️Wall paint (any brand will do)
✔️2H or 4H pencils
✔️Tape measure and straight edge
✔️Bucket
✔️Drop cloth or sheet of paper
✔️Empty paint markers
✔️Painter’s tape
✔️Projector
✔️Spray paint
✔️Paint roller and tray (with an extender!)
✔️Pounce wheel
✔️Krink Markers
Bonus mention:
✔️Pat Flynn - Superfans: amzn.to/2O8a1LI
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[@junkjournalguy]

i created an oversized Sign/Mural for my employer....I used my iPad to photograph the area where mural would b painted, then upload to Procreate for iPad added the grid tool to divide the quadrants then drew the grids on the wall using white chalk traced letters using a sharpie wide pen, then acrylic paint over the sharpie wipe chalk marks away... worked excellent!

[@gabrielleholt1863]

I'm 27 and have no idea what career path I want to embark on for my future but I have secretly wanted to assist in painting a mural for years. Even better would be designing my own! So this video was spot on for beginner insight into the world of murals. I'm going to research ways to jump into this as a volunteer this summer in my city so I can build the confidence to set out on my own!

[@stvjrmllo]

How'd it go so far?

[@noahjames9983]

Good luck 🤞

[@ladyhakora]

I'm going to be 27 in a few days and I'm in the same boat. This is my Summer goal.

[@msd7965]

Thank you for the interview with Eric. I believe $19,000 is cheap for amazing good art. Look what paintings in a gallery can go for! You put a lot of time and skills into your works Eric. You deserve that sort of money.

[@ifeoma9421]

This so far has been the most helpful mural beginner video I've seen. Thanks Becca for bringing Efdot on here! And thanks for sharing your tips with us Efdot 👊🏾 More videos like this please ☺️☺️

[@papapros2251]

i know this video is a couple years old now but i just wanna say that you guys crushed it. it's very clean & profesh, timing was on point and you are both excellent speakers so it was both fun and informative. epic collab! i took away some good tips from efdot that will help me on my mural journey for sure. i've been a graphic designer for almost 20 years now specializing in print. everything from business cards to billboards, to many mass tshirt orders and promotional items plus everything in between. small format, large format, screen print, digital print, full color & offset, typesetting and even bindery. working in print shops, sign shops, graphic design departments in major corporate offices and acting as a print broker for my own business has kept me afloat up until this point. ive always loved painting and have painted for fun on nearly every substrate you can think of but ive always been interested in murals. i have an opportunity to paint on a rather large exterior wall at a relatively busy intersection in my town, and i look forward to using some of the things that i've learned here today. thank you both for sharing some knowledge. keep killing your scenes. papapros out! 👊

[@JosephMelanconArt]

SUCH great info. Thanks to you both!

[@angierae403]

Just started my second mural ever … 6 ft x 12 ft outdoors …. This is giving me confidence and great pointers

[@moliver1669]

I get to do my first mural in a couple of weeks and most of my experience is through graffiti, im anxious but I know I got it, just want to make sure i dont mess it up and comes out nice, thanks for the advice

[@katelynmichellee]

how’d it go?? :)

[@whoisharo4689]

How did it go? How did you start it?

[@leilanipatrick111]

This was excellent! You both are awesome. I’m a graphic designer/illustrator from Los Angeles & I have a meeting for my first mural today. Truly inspired, thanks!

[@Cococure-gj3mr]

Great interviewer pulling pertinent details forward 👍and really informative conversation from both of them! Thank you both so much 🙏🏿

[@madakamads]

Amazing interview in so many ways!! Thank you so much, Becca and Eric, Sending love and good vives from Brazil

[@AnaDavila-qw6hj]

Super helpful, useful, practical information!!! Exactly what I was looking for!

[@joychip5994]

Yea green frog tape now in yellow also love your teaching very good

[@clairemeacham5792]

Very Useful information for beginners! Love @efdot chill and honest "style". Thank you both : )

[@efdotstudio]

Thank you! Chill but useful - I might steal that, haha.

[@wanderingcreativity]

This is wonderful and helpful thanks for the show it brings glee to our days! 🖌

[@efdotstudio]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@KharaokeTube]

Got a link to this video in my email and can't wait to watch the whole video with a cup of hot cocoa!

[@hulashelly9281]

Again, good stuff!

[@Tat2TankT]

Thanks for sharing y’all i so grateful

[@lesgaston-johnston3058]

Fantastic Becca, thank you very much. I am sure you had me in mind after the recent question i sent you. Eric thank you also for some great insight into murals and materials, as i am going to start my first one in the new year, like Becca said i am really scared but you have given me an added boost. Thank you both.

[@efdotstudio]

Good luck with it!!

[@bsienkart2937]

OMG same with peanut butter and chocolate...no go. THANK YOU!

[@cryptoram4203]

Really insightful I have my first mural job in the downtown Las Vegas art district super excited about it

[@STLwildlifeArt]

great episode!

[@soyLaila22]

such great video!!

[@rodgerjamesbeck]

Thank you! I'm an illustrator looking to get into murals. This conversation was invaluable. :)

[@TheHappyEverCrafter]

That's great to hear!

[@letiromano651]

Hi! Can you please link the projector that he used? I believe he said LG but not sure of the model. Thanks!

[@eveevelynz]

Did you get to find out which one it was? I just saw the video and I’m looking for a projector for I only see 2-3K prices 🥴

[@surabhismandalamagic3636]

Great sharing ❤️❤️❤️✌🏻

[@robgbrice]

This was a great interview!!

[@efdotstudio]

Thanks for wartching Rob! Glad you enjoyed it

[@dragoshNeoh]

Great VIBEZ

[@Mcmunz]

Thanks bro! 14:34

[@_kela.]

Peanut butter and chocolate is a no for me too lol. This was a great video and breakdown. Thank you!

[@Awesomelybored]

This was really interesting! I was wondering if the final quote for the price of the entirely mural factors in the price of supplie? So would the budget for those would be coming out of the whole price of the mural or would it be separate?

[@airangel94]

Any tips for transferring murals onto a large floor surface (like a basketball court)? Any help will be much appreciated!

[@chrisnossoughi9039]

Do you get image distortion using projector?

[@sly5176]

Wow, too cool, Me being a 70's graffiti artist by the name PEL, do it well and Dime 2, also Sly5 176 back on the number 4 trains and various others I'm thinking about creating Murals. Thank you.

[@StevenSchmid]

at the 6:30 mark you literally called me out! LOL i did (nearly) that EXACT google search.

[@angelapatient7073]

This is all super helpful. Thank you! I would love to hear from someone that has been doing this as a business like you guys about contracts too, do you do one? Do you guys have a template of a contract you use? Are there things you learned along the way that are helpful in the sense of covering your "behind" legally, etc? Thanks!

[@chrisnossoughi9039]

Can you comment on how to get clients? It’s always been a challenge

[@ivanngarc]

Do you make a distortion (anamorphic) of larger pieces? (Considering the point of the viewer?)

[@mollab1]

Doing my first mural and plan to do it intuitively. Have you ever done that?

[@umairfaquih3729]

First comment 2nd like

[@briehopkins803]

Yeah, it’s not so fun. I cried multiple times at my last mural, I way undercharged and it took me so much longer than I expected. I spilled a can of white paint onto the interior of my car 😢😢😢

[@user-sv4wp4vj2m]

Been there…done that.

[@ixiladams4275]

At 6:38 I felt @ed

[@RazorSharp]

Wow I'm charging around 25 grand for my first mural

[@danielleboon1543]

The problem with red and yellow is the pigments themselves. They’re weak and are easily overpowered by other pigments, including the white put in during manufacturing. So they’re mixed using more transparent bases. When you mix a transparent base with a transparent pigment, you aren’t going to get a super opaque paint. There are safety paints with better coverage. But they only come in limited colours, sheens, and are often oil based. They’re really designed for parkades and other industrial areas. Painting miles of HVAC pipe for weeks on end is so boring, and nobody cares if the colour is super exact, but you care greatly about coverage and durability.

[@dianageciova7638]

👎

[@JayJayAviation]

Why?

[@ModernMedusa]

Saying "your first mural is not going to be great" is so negative and discouraging. I don't mean to sound arrogant, but my first mural WAS great lol... I've been an artist for decades now so I guess it was meant to encourage people if they make mistakes, but dang. Give artists a little credit 😂