
Mr Doodle and his wife and dog plan to make the living artwork their permanent home (Gareth Fuller/PA) To show off the creation, he has also produced a stop motion film which he said he created entirely by himself with 1,857 photographs taken between September 2020 and September 2022. Mr Doodle, his wife Alena and their dog now plan to make the living artwork their permanent home. “I am so excited that my doodles now have a permanent home in the UK.” The artist began drawing his monochrome, cartoonish style on the house two years ago (Gareth Fuller/PA) The 28-year-old artist said: “The completion of the Doodle House is just the beginning of my childhood dream to doodle the entire planet and to encourage the art world to recognise doodles as an art form. Sam Cox, aka Mr Doodle, with his wife Alena in the Doodle House (Gareth Fuller/PA) The project was completed using 900 litres of white emulsion paint, 401 cans of black spray paint, 286 bottles of black drawing paint and 2,296 pen nibs. Success, however, took its toll in 2020, when Cox said he was hospitalized for six weeks owing to stress brought on by the administrative side of his work.The home now features his designs on every surface and object from his bedding to crockery. And it’s been like a happy obsession ever since really.” Cox, who frequently showcases his work in time-lapse videos spread across walls and canvases, refers to his doodling as a “virus.” Mo Abbas / NBC News The mansion is covered entirely in cartoon-like doodles, Mo Abbas / NBC News


“So I just became obsessed with it in the best way possible. I wanted my doodles to take over everything,” he said. … I started drawing on my parents’ furniture and everything around me.

“When I was young, maybe about 16 years old, I realized that doodling was just kind of taking over my life. “None of it’s ever sketched or anything like that because I find that when I add a sketch or pencil out something, it just kills the flow of the organic nature of a doodle,” he saidĬox, who frequently showcases his work in time-lapse videos spread across walls and canvases, refers to his doodling as a “virus.”
