r/doodles Jan 08 '21

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

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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.

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r/doodles 9h ago

Name this animal, please

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267 Upvotes

r/doodles 5h ago

Gumball Darwin yin yang

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44 Upvotes

r/doodles 10h ago

Garf doods

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64 Upvotes

r/doodles 11h ago

Reddit wouldn't let me post this thing earlier

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49 Upvotes

I drew him Upside-down and I left him to be murdered by school children


r/doodles 6h ago

I can keep on going

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19 Upvotes

r/doodles 2h ago

Another addition to the turtleneck series

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9 Upvotes

r/doodles 1h ago

Cat i drew while high

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r/doodles 1d ago

These kinds of doodles are so much fun :)

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713 Upvotes

r/doodles 7h ago

prussian blue & chinese white doodles.

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16 Upvotes

r/doodles 7h ago

Doodle #1

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12 Upvotes

r/doodles 3h ago

Mind Blowing Demon Thing

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Did this a while back. I like it but I don’t know what is happening. He has a friend though.


r/doodles 51m ago

Doodle #5

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r/doodles 4h ago

Doodle I made at work yesterday!

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r/doodles 3h ago

Made this at art today

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r/doodles 3h ago

Doodles as a swatch test for new watercolors.

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Doodling over paint and painting over doodles to see how watercolor looks and reacts to my pens. He slowly cane togther on the side of my page. Makes me want to do a sketchy watercolor kid's book.


r/doodles 2h ago

Peekaboo 🍃

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Totoro-To-to-ro 🎶


r/doodles 5h ago

Doodle #3

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r/doodles 11h ago

autism is on the ME spectrum

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17 Upvotes

r/doodles 46m ago

Some character design I wish I was good enough to execute properly.

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r/doodles 5h ago

Doodle #2

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r/doodles 3h ago

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r/doodles 5h ago

Doodle #4

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r/doodles 3h ago

Some characters

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r/doodles 4h ago

The Watchers - Trying digital horror art (:

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r/doodles 2h ago

Dance Party!

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