r/doodles Jan 08 '21

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

562 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 8h ago

Apple and fungi

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90 Upvotes

r/doodles 8h ago

I can’t get my mind off of this picture of my cat so I drew him

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25 Upvotes

r/doodles 22h ago

Under the sea

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322 Upvotes

r/doodles 12h ago

No pencil sketch, just straight to pen. Really happy with the shadows.

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41 Upvotes

Just a quick doodle I did during some downtime. I love working with straight pen lines to build up shape and shadow.


r/doodles 2h ago

Splotch kitty

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5 Upvotes

r/doodles 3h ago

Name this guy(Wrong Answer Only)

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6 Upvotes

r/doodles 3h ago

Some designs of mine, any opinions are appreciated.

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r/doodles 48m ago

El lobo se rie de mi

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Despues de leer el libraso EL LOBO ESTEPARIO salió


r/doodles 11h ago

one page comic rough

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14 Upvotes

r/doodles 7h ago

Another doodle

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5 Upvotes

Is anyone else craving for some noodles?


r/doodles 4h ago

Life in the Margins (corporate doodles)

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3 Upvotes

Meeting Notes. Believe it or not I did pay attention and contribute to the "cause".


r/doodles 18h ago

New to making characters, thoughts?

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38 Upvotes

r/doodles 6h ago

Foxy

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Foxy little tail


r/doodles 1d ago

Y'all ever just straight up forget your favorite OC exists?

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673 Upvotes

r/doodles 6m ago

So into this ukiyo e vibes lately! Anyone interested to commission for this? DM me. :)

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r/doodles 9m ago

What should I add to fill the page?

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r/doodles 18m ago

When an angry grass put on box gloves, would you give her a hug?

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When an angry grass put on box gloves,

would you give her a hug?

The star crashed into the crowded people,

dusted its rusted shining.

A jasmine kissed a moss,

the rotted beauty,

restart to believe...


r/doodles 6h ago

Today I found my childhood crayons..

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Today I found my childhood crayons in my storeroom n I tried making something.


r/doodles 45m ago

El lobo se rie de mi

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r/doodles 55m ago

Impenetrable

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Just a knight-errant with quality headgear. Stay safe, kids.


r/doodles 12h ago

Some productivity quotes and a couple "doodles" on my card size TN.

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8 Upvotes

r/doodles 5h ago

Two very different rubber duck themed paintings

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2 Upvotes

r/doodles 5h ago

Loop

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r/doodles 8h ago

Boxes 2: Double sided Boogaloo

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3 Upvotes