Mr. Doodle: Inside a $1.5-Million Home Covered in Doodles

According to Mr. Doodle, this project is his “best piece of work.” In the caption of an Instagram post, the artist said it took 900 liters of white paint, 401 cans of black spray paint for the exterior, 286 bottles of black drawing paint for the interior, and 2,296 pen nibs to carry out the endeavor. “I’d like to thank my mum and dad because, ever since they let me draw over my bedroom walls when I was a kid, I have wanted to live in a property completely covered in characters of my own creation,” he wrote in another post. 

Mr. Doodle, who is in his late 20s, took the fine art world by storm when his seemingly playful work started selling at auctions at prices much higher than most excepted (to date, his record sale was for his Spring [2019] piece, which sold for a little under $1 million at the Tokyo Chuo Auction Company). In 2020, he was the fifth most successful artist at auction under 40 years old. Many credit smart branding and the power of social media as key elements to his exceptional accomplishments. Of course, it’s impossible to negate his passion, likely the most integral element of them all. Clearly demonstrated in the BBC segment, Cox said doodling is “almost like an out-of-body experience. You’re just indulging yourself in this free-flowing state of creation.”