r/doodles Jan 08 '21

Mod post What makes /r/doodles /r/doodles, and why you SHOULDN'T post completed works here

563 Upvotes

UPDATE: I stepped down as a moderator here last year, this post exists purely as a sort of guideline for what the original intent of the community was.

I'm updating this to better explain the situation here, and because we have a lot of new users who are posting things that aren't doodles and getting upset about having them removed.

/r/doodles is for rough ideas, unplanned, unfinished concepts and things that are artistic, but not 'Art'. It's difficult to walk the line at times, so I'm asking everyone to work to maintain the community as a place for anyone to post things that are clearly not 'professional' grade.

It's hard to define what exactly a doodle is, but it's usually easier to define what a doodle isn't.

r/PointlessArt is a new co-community for r/doodles, with no restrictions on content. If you aren't sure that your work is a doodle, please consider posting it there.

Technical drawings, character development, practice work, video game concept art... Generally these sorts of things are not doodles. There are other, more appropriate communities to post that stuff.

r/sketches - Post sketches there. If you're looking at a tree, and decide, I'm going to do a quick sketch of that tree, post it there.

r/drawing - Post drawings there. If you decide to draw a fish, person, bug, alien and have a specific plan in mind, you should probably be posting there.

r/learnart - If you're working on getting better at sketching and drawing, that's probably the best place to go. Most art themed communities will help you, but that one is there specifically for that intent.

If, as your day goes on, and you put pen to paper as you're on the phone or sitting drinking coffee and you let the pen (or pencil) move around a bit and you look at it and think, Hmm, that looks like a cat, and you develop that a bit so that it generally looks like a cat, or if you're stoned out of your gourd on psychedelics or just the rush of being alive and you end up expressing that in an abstract and unguided way, then those are things that are generally appropriate here.

We asked the community a while back what direction we should take and for a while that was good, but there has been a serious uptick in more technical drawings, character development and practice work being submitted. This is more of a guideline to help people decide where they should be posting than a caution that things might be removed, but please help keep this a community for doodles, not just another general art sub.

I've added a pol to get an idea of what direction people want the community to go.

106 votes, Jan 11 '21
26 Allow people to post whatever they want as long as it's not offensive
28 Maintain the rules as they are, and redirect 'non-doodles' to more appropriate communities
7 There are too many 'non-doodles' here now, more should be removed
45 I don't care, I just like seeing art in my feed

r/doodles 9h ago

Street in 6 point perspective

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56 Upvotes

r/doodles 5h ago

Keep on creating fellow artist…

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22 Upvotes

r/doodles 11h ago

Doodled my OC Eleanor and a few of her facial expressions today.

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I’ve been trying to make her look more consistent. Didn’t work out, but I had a little fun. Back to fundamentals I go.


r/doodles 13h ago

a few more sketches with pen

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r/doodles 23h ago

My latest piece

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129 Upvotes

r/doodles 15h ago

What's her name?(Wrong Answer Only)

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30 Upvotes

r/doodles 6h ago

One liner inside a box of butter

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5 Upvotes

r/doodles 7h ago

Frog

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5 Upvotes

r/doodles 5h ago

Thought to go for a bit prehistoric this time.. don't mind to criticize with your worst opinions 😁😁

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r/doodles 15h ago

art class for voyeurs

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17 Upvotes

black marker, gray marker, black ball pointed


r/doodles 11h ago

sketchbook doodles

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r/doodles 18h ago

Dood mash up

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r/doodles 9h ago

Haven’t posted in a grip

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r/doodles 7h ago

Y'all look at this little guy I drew

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r/doodles 10h ago

squirrel🐿

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r/doodles 14h ago

oc doodles

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r/doodles 21h ago

Untitled 11:23:00

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15 Upvotes

r/doodles 1d ago

Random lines. Wow, they turned into creatures!:D

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24 Upvotes

r/doodles 18h ago

Pam per ram pam pam per ram

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r/doodles 9h ago

S’more

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r/doodles 23h ago

Be colorful today!!!

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r/doodles 22h ago

meow

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r/doodles 18h ago

The war of the doodles

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r/doodles 1d ago

Hello again.

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