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INTRO: Doodling is doorway to great art, say Filipino artists.

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Filipino graphic artists turn blank walls into artistic murals, promoting
doodling as a way to cultivate creativity. 

SHOWS:
(ASIA) MANILA, PHILIPPINES (RECENT) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL)
1. DOODLE ARTISTS LOOKING AT BLANK WALL IN APARTMENT 
2. COLOUR MARKERS ON TABLE 
3. VARIOUS OF ARTISTS DRAWING ON WALL 
4. ARTIST PAOLO FERRER DRAWING CARTOON CHARACTER
5. ARTIST DRAWING 
6. FIVE ARTISTS DRAWING TOGETHER 
7. LEAF BEING DRAWN 
8. (SOUNDBITE) (Filipino) PAOLO FERRER, GRAPHIC ARTIST AND CO-FOUNDER OF
WEWILLDOODLE, SAYING:
    "Doodling is the basic building blocks of art. Before you can make
a grand masterpiece, you have no choice but to start with doodles. So in that
sense, it seems that the instinct to create is so basic."
9. ARTIST LIONEL YUMUL DRAWING CARTOON CHARACTER 
10. ARTIST JHOAN MEDRANO SHADING DRAWING
11. WALL FILLED WITH DRAWINGS 
12. ARTISTS LOOKING AT WALL WHILE OTHERS CONTINUE DRAWING 
13. WAITER FIXING TABLE AT PINO RESTAURANT 
14. RESTAURANT WALL WITH DOODLE MURAL CREATED BY WEWILLDOODLE GROUP
15. (SOUNDBITE) (Filipino) PAOLO PERALTA, CO-OWNER, PINO RESTAURANT,
SAYING:
    "We commissioned their group to perform their art work. It's like
music, you hire a musician to do his thing. You don't interfere."
16. PERALTA TALKING TO RESTAURANT STAFF
17. WEWILLDOODLE FOUNDER LIONEL YUMUL TALKING TO CHILDREN IN MALL 
18. CHILDREN LISTENING 
19. ARTIST JHOAN MEDRANO DRAWING DUCK ON TWO-SIDED WALL 
20. ARTISTS DRAWING ON BOTH SIDES OF WALL AS CHILDREN WATCH 
21. YUMUL AND MEDRANO DRAWING CHARACTERS 
22. CHILDREN DRAWING 
23. COUPLE DRAWING
24. COUPLE SMILING 
25. (SOUNDBITE) (Filipino) LIONEL YUMUL, GRAPHIC ARTIST AND FOUNDER OF
WEWILLDOODLE, SAYING: 
    "Imagine if everyone were drawing and all people were creative, we
could stay away from most problems. We would not get into drugs. We would not
fall into awful vices."
25. MEDRANO DRAWING BESIDE CHILDREN 
26. PARTICIPANT RODOLFO PEREZ DRAWING CROCODILE 
27. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SEVEN-YEAR-OLD RODOLFO PEREZ SAYING: 
    "It's really fun. It's just something new for me, seeing other
people's drawings. That's all."
28. ARTIST PAOLO FERRER TEACHING CHILD HOW TO DRAW CHARACTER
29. CHILD COPYING FERRER'S DRAWING 
30. CHILD DRAWING 
31. (SOUNDBITE) (Filipino) JHOANN MEDRANO, GRAPHIC ARTIST AND CO-FOUNDER,
WEWILLDOODLE, SAYING: 
    "When you've been to art school, you follow certain rules such as
form, line, etcetera. But not the kids. What they do is the real kind of
doodling, it's what comes to their minds. So we learn from them." 
32. SHOPPERS LOOKING AT DOODLE WALL 

STORY: One group of artists in Manila cannot resist a blank wall and a
bunch of magic markers.
    In a span of thirty minutes, they can spontaneously create a mural of
doodles, without planning or practice.
    With day jobs as graphic artists for a television network, they would
doodle on their notebooks to flesh out ideas. 
    Soon, one of them thought that their pages of doodles could be
magnified and exhibited. 
    Last year, they formed the group WeWillDoodle, and they are
commissioned to work on wall murals in apartments and restaurants.
    The group believes that doodling is the doorway to art. 
    "Doodling is the basic building blocks of art. Before you can make
a grand masterpiece, you have no choice but to start with doodles. So in that
sense, it seems that the instinct to create is so basic," said Paolo
Ferrer, co-founder of WeWillDoodle.
    The art is as much in the process as it is in the end-product. During
the free flow session, they draw whatever comes to mind and build on each
other's ideas -- a cloud here, a mushroom there. It's as if only mind were at
work.  
    Pino Restaurant in Manila hired WeWillDoodle to create a wall mural.
The owner says the drawings spice up their otherwise plain interiors. 
    "We commissioned their group to perform their art work. It's like
music, you hire a musician to do his thing. You don't interfere," said
Paolo Peralta, co-owner of Pino Restaurant. 
    On a recent weekend, WeWillDoodle held an art activity in a shopping
mall, as part of their advocacy to encourage more people to doodle. Unlike
fine art only appreciated in museums, doodling is more accessible, they say.

    They believe that anyone can doodle, and everyone must doodle, for art
and creativity can save many from woes.  
    "Imagine if everyone were drawing and all people were creative, we
could stay away from most problems. We would not get into drugs. We would not
fall into awful vices," said WeWillDoodle founder Lionel Yumul. 
    Curious children joined in, fighting for magic markers and space on the
two-sided wall. 
    "It's really fun. It's just something new for me, seeing other
people's drawings. That's all," said seven-year-old Rodney Perez.    

    Jhoann Medrano, co-founder of WeWillDoodle, says that while they can
teach children how to draw, they too can learn a thing or two from them about
doodling. 
    "When you've been to art school, you follow certain rules such as
form, line, etcetera. But not the kids. What they do is the real kind of
doodling, it's what comes to their minds. So we learn from them," Medrano
said.
    The group has taken doodling to a beach party, corporate events and
outreach activities, and they hope that as more people doodle, more ideas are
brought to life. 

ENDS. 

-nelz, graphic designer/doodler