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Viral artist Mr. Doodle says the art world is split over his compulsive scribblings.
The English creator has teamed up with a fashionable London restaurant to decorate parts of the establishment.
And on June 7, he was at London’s trendy sketch restaurant decorating the entrance hall.
“It’s a very meditative process when I’m working on the doodles because I’m never really thinking about the doodles. I don’t see this in my head when I draw it. I just kind of move my hand and I’m just thinking about completely different stuff. I’ll be thinking about memories from when I was a kid or trying to work out what the next projects are going to be,” he says.
Not everything always goes to plan. But the beauty of this type of art is that it doesn’t need to be perfect.
“Sometimes, I do make a mistake. A line will bump into another line a bit too much, and I will have to just touch it up a little bit with the pen. Everything can kind of be slightly fixed or altered. Sometimes they’ll be drips and things, but I don’t really see them as mistakes. They’re kind of just part of the process, really. But most of the time, the pen is quite forgiving,” says Mr. Doodle.
Mr. Doodle has been commissioned by big brand names like Fendi, Puma, and Disney.
He also currently has a show at the Holburne Museum in Bath.
But does the art world accept him as one of their own?
“I think there’s a lot of people in the art world that don’t like this kind of thing, like doodles and things. And there’s strict things in their head that they think art should be, or there should be like some form of concept or message or something heavy or deep about an artwork. And I don’t really see it that way. And I think there’s a lot of people out there who also feel that way, who are also in the art world. So I think for some people they accept it. Other people don’t so much,” he says.
This article was provided by The Associated Press.