One decade-and, per the Washington Post, 238 gallons of white paint, 286 bottles of black drawing paint, 401 cans of black spray paint and 2,296 pen nibs-later, Mr. “This has been my dream since I was 18,” Cox tells the Sunday Times.
It was the first step toward fulfilling an adolescent wish to reside in a house entirely covered in doodles. With the money he made from his art, Cox was able to buy his Kent mansion for about $1.5 million a few years ago. In 2020, he set his own auction record by selling a large-scale drawing called Spring at Tokyo Chuo Auction for around $1 million. The Haring-meets-SpongeBob works have fetched Cox large sums of money at auctions. Per Susannah Butter of the Sunday Times, the young artist acknowledges the similarities in their work, but says that his primary inspiration “still goes back to when I was kid watching ‘ Tom and Jerry,’ ‘ Wacky Races’ and ‘ SpongeBob SquarePants,’ and video games like ‘ Crash Bandicoot.’” Doodle, has turned heads in the art world with his graphic doodle art, which is reminiscent of the work of 1980s graffiti-adjacent artist Keith Haring. In reality, the project took nearly two years.Ĭox, who also goes by the artist alias Mr. The video, which clocks in at just over two minutes, is a time lapse consisting of 1,857 photographs, Cox tells the Washington Post’s Adela Suliman. I doodled my house /hHhNvqKPqa- Mr Doodle October 2, 2022 Nothing-not the pillowcases, not the stovetop, not the television-is left untouched. To buy prints online, visit or visit to view more of this talented artist’s work.Hit play on a video that Sam Cox, 28, shared to social media over the weekend and you’ll see how the English artist covered a 13-room stark white mansion in floor-to-ceiling doodles. I can do my own thing with it and choose how the characters are playing about and everything is kind of your own rules.” That is how I do my work so people can spend ages just finding different things. “I like just walking into the shops and seeing how busy some of the aisles are sometimes and how much there is to take in, like letters and things are punching at you. “Most of my work is about consuming objects and places with a kind of like growing drawing virus,” says Sam. In his imaginative video biography, in which he talks about drawing incessantly as a child, he tells a fairytale about how he started his work known as “Doodle Land” in a place called “Paper Galaxy”. His creations feature clusters of animated characters, patterns and objects all grouped together in what looks like a formation that continues without a visible beginning or end. UK-based artist Mr Doodle, whose real name is Sam Cox, specialises in doodle prints commonly referred to as “Graffiti Spaghetti”.
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