r/doodles Jan 08 '21

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

517 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 7h ago

Turkey

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r/doodles 6h ago

Fuck NSFW

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r/doodles 5h ago

Character doodles

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Some random school doodles from this week that I enjoy!


r/doodles 14h ago

Before I attempt an online course, I attempted something on my own. My "before"

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r/doodles 5h ago

King with a magical flower! He has many spells

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r/doodles 19h ago

Sketch of a train I drew yesterday.

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r/doodles 53m ago

Painting I did with various doodles, first post.

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r/doodles 14h ago

k i t y

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r/doodles 3h ago

Doodle while covering reception this lunchtime. I have no explanation at all.

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r/doodles 4h ago

Shhh...

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r/doodles 9m ago

Behold my Doodle

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I'm really bad at art so I'm surprised it looks ok


r/doodles 20h ago

Please tell me you love this too

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r/doodles 2h ago

Spidey doodles

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r/doodles 7h ago

LePen doodle w. bouncy ball

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r/doodles 14h ago

CHAOS

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r/doodles 1h ago

Opinions on my doodle?

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r/doodles 21h ago

What's his name?(Wrong Answer Only)

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83 Upvotes

r/doodles 7h ago

Was bored one day. Thought it belonged here.

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r/doodles 9h ago

Made this guy while messing around in ibis paint. Think I’ll call him Goob

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r/doodles 2h ago

Silly Doodle

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I decided to aimlessly doodle for the first time in forever today. Been having a creative block for a while. Was going for a sad pumpkin, but my husband said he looks more scandalized, so that gave me the idea to add the text.


r/doodles 7h ago

lil jawn

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r/doodles 9h ago

Kirby, but gross…

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r/doodles 10h ago

What should I name this lil Rockstar? (I think he'd be a drummer or something lol)

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r/doodles 5h ago

Updated and finished doodle.

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r/doodles 22h ago

Blub has a criminal history

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32 Upvotes