Mr Doodle is for what Mr Doodle does – the Kent artist, born Sam Cox, has covered his entire house in scribbles.
On Sunday, October 2, the illustrious artist revealed The Doodle House in Tenterden – a £1.35 million 12-room mansion covered in black and white doodles.
The artistic endeavour covers any imaginable surface - think stove tops, bedsheets, toast, and every square inch of white brick in his home.
But the work has not come without collateral damage, as Cox told the Sunday Times that he went against the wishes of the previous owners who pleaded with him not to draw on the house.
He said: “They told me whatever you do, please don’t doodle. I didn’t listen.”
Despite the dizzying image standing stark to neighbouring homes, Cox has revealed that he will live in the Doodle House permanently – along with his wife, Alena (also known as Mrs Doodle) and their doodle dog.
And since the couple’s neighbours have not yet raised any complaints, they plan to stick around.
The two-year process, whittled down to a two-minute stop-motion video, showed the 28-year-old drawing across his home.
At one point, his TV shows a news broadcast (reported by Mr Doodle himself) with the caption, “Breaking news: doodles consuming entire planet.”
This is followed by reporter Cox being covered in sketches on screen and drawings bursting from the television.
It has been reported that Cox used 900 litres of white paint, 401 cans of black spray paint for the outside, 286 bottles of black paint, 2,296 pen nibs, and 1,857 photographs.
So happy and excited to have finally doodled my house. I created the stop motion film myself, it consists of 1857 photographs and the doodles are real, it’s not CGI. We now live in a fully doodled world.
— Mr Doodle (@itsmrdoodle) October 2, 2022
Photo by @aluncallender for today’s @thetimes pic.twitter.com/jwqD4sfFiU
Taking to Twitter, Cox said: “So happy and excited to have finally doodled my house.
“We now live in a fully doodled world.”
From his early days dubbed with his moniker by his professor at the University of the West England in Bristol, Cox said this is “a project I have been dreaming about since I was very young”.
He added: “Everything I have done up to this point has been in aim of being able to realise this piece.”
