… seen everything. In one picture

This is The Picture of Everything. Well, it’s actually just a small bit of The Picture of Everything.

This mother-of-all-doodles has been knocking around for quite a while – since 1997 to be exact. Thirteen years later, artist Howard Hallis finished pedantically scribbling ‘everything’ in September, and the completed 12×15-foot picture is currently on display in Los Angeles.

The exhibition is the first public showing of this stunning, and, let’s face it, a little bit bonkers, coloured-pencil-and-felt-tip-pen documentation of the history of pop culture as a finished piece.

If you’re stateside, it’s got to be worth taking a look – gazing at the incredible, obsessive level of detail on a computer screen is likely to swallow a decent chunk of your day; up close and personal you could well end up owing the gallery money towards the rent.

According to the gallery’s website, The Picture of Everything is also up for sale at the event with a no doubt – considering it’s basically paying Hallis 13 years’ wages – sizeable price tag.

Fans of colossal, billboard-sized sketches be advised, though, you’re going to need a big living room – the work is so epic in size the curators were forced to hang it at an angle to get it into the gallery.

“It didn’t look this big in the shop” might not be quite so believable an excuse when returning home with this bad boy rolled up under your arm.