Joe Whale (b. 2009, United Kingdom – now based in Adelaide, Australia) is a contemporary artist working across monochrome ink and painting. Also known as The Doodle Boy, his practice is built around a single driving ambition: the construction of entire worlds. From densely populated black ink environments to expansive colour painting, Whale creates self-contained universes of invented characters, creatures, and forms. Each body of work an extension of a visual language that is immediately and entirely his own. What began as an instinct for drawing that captured international attention in 2019 has since developed into a serious and expanding fine art practice, with work held in private collections worldwide.