Shrewsbury's very own Doodle Boy was in school for World Book day to inspire the pupils and also open the schools new library.
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00:00 We are honoured to welcome Joe Whale aka Doodle Boy to officially open our library at Radbrook Primary School.
00:08 Take it away Joe.
00:09 I declare this library open.
00:13 Yay!
00:16 Go on Joe.
00:17 Go on Joe.
00:18 Yay!
00:21 Wow.
00:22 Woohoo!
00:24 So basically when I'm starting a drawing I start off with a simple shape so you know
00:30 at the minute I'm just doing like a spiky character.
00:35 I don't name my characters but you guys can if you want.
00:38 You guys like art?
00:39 Yeah.
00:40 You like art?
00:41 Yeah.
00:42 What kind of things do you guys draw?
00:43 Dragons.
00:44 Dragons.
00:45 That's cool.
00:46 Can you tell us who you've worked with because you've done incredible things already.
00:54 Well I've worked with quite a few.
00:57 Obviously you guys might know my books, Bad Food.
01:00 That's with Scholastic.
01:01 I've also worked with Disney on doing a light year piece that's really fun.
01:06 Harry John's has the top that I'm wearing now, that's from them.
01:11 I did a cool collab with them.
01:13 I've done quite a few yeah.
01:14 So it's all really fun.
01:16 I'm just going to play and show you.
01:20 [Laughter]
01:23 [Laughter]
01:44 Once I've got my main character I do some swirls and things like that.
01:50 Just to fill some space.
01:54 And then do some writing as well.
02:02 It's really cool.
02:04 [Laughter]
02:05 I normally do mine in black and white but some of you guys might like to use colour.
02:22 I do do that sometimes.
02:24 It's really cool just to mix things up.
02:28 [Coughing]
02:29 I didn't mean to do this to Rick but one thing a lot of everyone in my family says is
02:47 there's no right or wrong.
02:49 So if you do something and you're not happy with it, don't throw it away because it's all part of the game.
02:56 It's all good.
02:57 And yeah, there's no mistakes.
03:01 It's just about having fun and doing what you love.
03:24 I have a signature as well.
03:26 I do like the character.
03:29 I've got the character.
03:54 I'm nearly done so I'm just going to fill the space and then normally I go in and add some detail with the finished plans.
04:01 [Beep]
04:27 Okay, now I'm going to put this down.
04:31 As well, once I'm done with one layer I like to step back and have a look.
04:36 You guys like it?
04:37 [Cheering]
04:38 In fact, we can all give you some.
04:41 Can we?
04:42 [Applause]
04:43 [APPLAUSE]
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