r/oddlysatisfying • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 • 3d ago
The drawing process feels like digital.
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u/Klisstoriss 3d ago
Is that the guy who graffitied his entire house?
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u/Brewmeiser 3d ago
Yes, it's Mr. Doodle.
Mr. Doodle: Inside a $1.5-Million Home Covered in Doodles | Architectural Digest https://share.google/Ueh8Qmduku05l83lu
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u/MesoamericanMorrigan 2d ago
Has he met Keith Harring?
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u/Jontenn 2d ago
since he was born after Keith Harring died, no. He also makes music as mr doodle and in many songs he acknowledges that his art bears quite the similarity to harring's work.
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u/pbizzle 2d ago
Who do his songs sound like
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u/Jontenn 2d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxjH3aKpESo His songs sounds like they belong on r/crappymusic and are focused on doodling, if you listen to this song you can hear him saying he's copying an artist from the 80s...
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u/mr_fantastical 1d ago
Oh man I was at a work event in Austin, Texas a few months back and saw a giant mural of his out and about. Im a ginger fella so I was amazed (as it had a lot of ginger characters in it).
A colleague told me all about him as I didnt know who he was at the time. Great to see his stuff here!
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u/Le_Sadie 2d ago
Is he the one that has been doing this since he was a kid? I remember many years ago (enough that said kid would be his age) this like, 10-year-old or something doing this kinds of art pieces and it was crazy impressive.
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u/emsesq 2d ago
How to take your home form $1.5 million to $1.50 in one easy step.
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u/sorig1373 2d ago
You could just repaint. And there are a lot of people who would pay extra for that. Also maybe they don't care that it could lower the house price and they just want their house to look interesting. Stop complaining about people enjoying their lives.
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u/duckandcoveruk 3d ago
Yep, interesting interview with him here https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jun/28/mr-doodle-sam-cox-psychosis-mental-health-interview
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u/mikehiler2 3d ago
What does “digital” feel like, exactly?
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u/Cunctatious 3d ago
Clean lines, consistent saturation
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u/mikehiler2 2d ago edited 2d ago
That’s a feeling?
BTW I’m not disagreeing with you, just making a pun. Don’t mind me.
Edit: downvoted for making a pun to my own question?? LMFAO!
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u/Matterbox 2d ago
I’ll upvote you for a pun.
Made me think of the Stewart Lee joke about colonel gaddafi, ‘so he could see what it felt like!’
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u/AfraidMeringue6984 3d ago
I think he means it looks like vector art because it's so clean... Or maybe he means it looks like clip art cause it's so tacky
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u/UsrHpns4rctct 3d ago
I think I get what OP means, but it's still a interesting question.
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u/ThaUniversal 3d ago
OP is a bot.
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u/mikehiler2 2d ago
But of course it’s a bot. Reddit, including subreddit mods, are mostly bots anyway. You can’t have more “embarrassing” “protests” if most subreddits are controlled by bots, now can you spez?
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u/JewstarGames 3d ago
The way he does the lines just seems so perfect
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u/Remarkable-Mood3415 2d ago
There are very minor imperfections, the legs are slightly different widths. There's a minor wobble in one of the eyes.
But to quote Bicentennial Man "Imperfection is the Key". Imperfection results in perfection, there's only 1 like it. It is uniquely off by just the slightest bit. Its human.
He is damn good at what he does, but still human and that adds value. Especially in a world of AI slop. No touch ups and adjustments in a program, no program doing it for you. Freehanding after decades of practice for all to see.
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u/NecroCannon 2d ago
Dunno why you got downvoted, probably by the AI bro crowd or something, I’m approaching becoming a professional artist and embraced my imperfections, especially after AI, there’s things people don’t spot that makes it feel like something is missing when they’re work get generated from, that’s what’s missing. Even when there’s messiness with the AI it’s still too clean and non human.
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u/Accomplished-Try-658 3d ago
Keith Haring has a lot to answer for.
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u/mustachiomegazord 3d ago
It not his fault whole generations that followed him are creatively bankrupt click chasers. He was an innovative and thoughtful artist
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u/Accomplished-Try-658 3d ago
For sure 100%. He was a genuine guy at a genuine time doing his genuine art.
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u/a-big-roach 1d ago
Not quite understanding the hate in this thread. This guy's art is certainly inspired by Keith Haring, but is that an inherently bad thing?
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u/KermaisaMassa 3d ago
I mean... You still draw the same whether it's digital or not. Just a different medium.
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u/bird9066 3d ago
People think digital is easier for some reason. It's really not.
It's kinda bothering me as an artist that someone saw a talented human and thinks...yeah it's like digital. I understand the world we live in it just offends something deep down.
It takes years and years to get this good.
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u/CandidBee8695 2d ago
Depends on what you’re doing. Digital is easier for some things. Color fill, straight lines, symmetry.
But limited in that it really can’t leave the realm of flat surfaces.
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u/bird9066 2d ago edited 2d ago
I was thinking it won't make you a better artist. You still need the fundamentals, you know? I used to paint in Photoshop a lot and I will say layers are wonderful.
Edit - why would someone down vote this? Lol reddit is weird.
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u/KermaisaMassa 2d ago
Because the mere thought of having to learn something causes panic attacks around these parts.
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u/X85311 2d ago
i think they just mean that it looks like a default pen in a digital art program. the consistent color and width makes it look digital. that’s not an insult
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u/bird9066 2d ago edited 2d ago
I didn't think it was an insult. I said I understand.
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u/X85311 2d ago
i just don’t get why it would bother you, they’re just talking about the brush he’s using. it sounded like you thought it was somehow diminishing his talent to say that
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u/bird9066 2d ago
What's not to get? People spend years to get that good. It doesn't look like digital. It looks like a very talented human artist.
Maybe the fact that AI is literally stealing art done by humans and puking it back out is in the back of my head.
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u/X85311 2d ago
i just don’t see why digital and talented human artist are contrasting things to you ig? you still have to be a talented human artist to do digital art. the tool he’s using just looks like a digital brush. nothing about that implies he’s not talented or anything, it literally just looks like a max opacity round brush in a drawing program lol. and as a digital artist that’s really cool, and it’s impressive how he manages to get such smooth lines that it almost looks like a vector. i would need SO much stabilization to do anything close to this, the fact that he’s doing it by hand is crazy! idk, maybe i’m biased because i really admire what traditional artists are able to do, but i see it more as a compliment
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u/bird9066 2d ago edited 1d ago
Are you a younger person? I'm 53 so maybe we just have a different way of looking at it. Or maybe you're more involved with digital art than me.
As someone who Just plays in Photoshop I'm amazed at what someone with a real grasp of it can do.
It sounds like our brains could reach the same conclusion from different sides.
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u/hides_in_corner 2d ago
I saw this guy working live in a museum in bath. no clue who he was but he was drawing on the walls wearing big sound proof headphones. Kinda memorable.
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u/GardenKeep 2d ago
Dollar store Keith Haring
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u/forman98 2d ago
This would actually be an interesting art history topic. This art style has been very prevalent in computer imagery for a few decades now (arguably because of Keith Haring and the street art style of the 80s/90s when PCs were becoming popular). Many young people simply equate it with computer style art and don’t comprehend that every style you’ve ever seen on a computer was first generated by real people on real mediums. So then you see someone create it in real time and it kind of breaks your brain. Dada art is similar in this regard.
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u/Jontenn 2d ago
I'd be afraid to call him just that, Mr Doodle's art now fetches quite the sums at auctions and he has broken the million dollar barrier.
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u/soup-monger 2d ago
So what? Damien Hirst is a complete hack, and he’s worth a fortune. Income has nothing to do with originality or talent.
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u/evasandor 2d ago
Artists just like to see a marker or brush with plenty of correct-viscosity paint. Ain't nothing feels shittier than when your marker craps out in the middle of a line. Just seeing it do the opposite of that activates the AHHHHH circuit in our sense of touch.
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u/Kind_Mind_ 3d ago
Did he draw with a pencil first?
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u/NobleRotter 3d ago
He usually just freehands it. Fascinating guy. He literally covered his house. It's a weird compulsion now
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u/Gluebluehue 3d ago
For it to feel digital he would've had draw, undo, redraw, undo, redraw, undo and redraw the circle of the glasses at least a hundred times.
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u/AppropriateScience71 2d ago
Quite cool. Artists just think differently than regular people.
This reminds me of playing Pictionary with my daughter (who’s an artist). Most people just start scribbling to draw a house or dynamite or whatever. But she would draw 3-4 largely disconnected lines and then 1-2 to connect them and a fully formed, easily identifiable picture would emerge. It was quite fascinating to watch. And so different. I later played with another artist who did the same thing.
Or when she was quite young, she’d solve puzzles just by putting the pieces together so it all just came together while I always started at the edges and sweat over color matching. Just very different mindset.
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u/come-home 2d ago
Every new line he added I was skeptical that it would resolve to a great addition and line after line I was pleasantly surprised. Love this guys work
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u/nutnutbutdontFUCK 3d ago
I'll take whatever she's using to draw.
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u/ClaroStar 3d ago
She's got a very large beard compared to most other women I know. Maybe except for my aunt Gladys. She has a very nice, full one.
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u/nutnutbutdontFUCK 3d ago
Bruh. I feel so dumb rn 😭. Didn't even notice the beard. Guess I need some sleep.
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u/duckandcoveruk 3d ago
This is Mr doodle. Interesting interview with him here https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jun/28/mr-doodle-sam-cox-psychosis-mental-health-interview
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u/gotnonickname 2d ago
The buttons are on the wrong side of the shirt.
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u/OiledMushrooms 2d ago
...no they arent?
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u/gotnonickname 2d ago
No? Men’s buttons are on the right, so they pop out of the holes on the left. The artist can put him in a blouse if he wants, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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u/Dd_8630 3d ago
What is that 'pen' he's using? It's so clean and makes a lovely dab sound.