In 2019, responding to criticism that his graffiti was not good enough and not aesthetically pleasing to be considered a type of art, Mr. įrom August the 18th to 20th 2017, he carried out an illustration marathon by decorating the entire walls and furniture of a shop on Carnaby Street in London for 50 hours in a row. In 2017, he created a 40 m2 urban art fresco at the Anneessens-Funck Institute in Brussels. By October 2022, he had 2.7 million followers. He started sharing images of his art on Instagram in May 2013. And if you want to get doodling yourself, you might want to choose from the best pens for artists.Sam Cox started drawing as a child and since then has continued to draw compulsively on any surface he can find, trying to fill every empty space with a doodle.

To explore the genre more, see our pick of some brilliant examples of Doodle art and some of our favourite Google doodles. Doodle House is one impressive artistic statement, and we're just waiting to see which developer bring Mr Doodle in to doodle a skyscraper of mega stadium. We have to say that at a time with so much attention being paid to the latest AI-generated digital art, it's a joy to see someone gaining recognition for one of the most primitive forms of drawing – and something that almost all of us practice even unconsciously. He later developed his own visual language or 'Doodle World' densely clustered and ever-multiplying characters and patterns.

Apparently, he started on his parents' furniture and school walls as a kid. Sam says his interest in doodles began at an early age, and we suspect may have got him into some bother. A post shared by Mr Doodle (opens in new tab)

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