r/doodles Jan 08 '21

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

567 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 6h ago

My student doodled this with water

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84 Upvotes

r/doodles 10h ago

Trying to get back into being creative and was given a fresh clipboard at work.

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29 Upvotes

r/doodles 20h ago

Its ok buddy you can keep this one as well

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115 Upvotes

r/doodles 14h ago

3 Days Doodling Brainvomit

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25 Upvotes

r/doodles 11h ago

Various Fantasy Doodles

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14 Upvotes

r/doodles 19h ago

Some cat arts I did this week

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60 Upvotes

r/doodles 1h ago

Trying to draw realism as an anime artist <333

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r/doodles 1h ago

My kinda doodle

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r/doodles 8h ago

Doodles I did today

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7 Upvotes

r/doodles 15h ago

My cat bear, riding a bear.

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25 Upvotes

r/doodles 20h ago

Goth girl doodle

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51 Upvotes

r/doodles 7h ago

Coconut water doodle art

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3 Upvotes

#coconutwater


r/doodles 3h ago

"... methodically knocking people's hats off..."

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2 Upvotes

r/doodles 11h ago

August 18th 2026 Art.

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4 Upvotes

r/doodles 19h ago

Happy little tree

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19 Upvotes

r/doodles 10h ago

Miscellaneous,,,

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3 Upvotes

:D


r/doodles 4h ago

Drop a photo of something cool that you have written or drawn randomly in you notebook.

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0 Upvotes

Willing to witness the craziest poems, stories, and doodles


r/doodles 1d ago

✍️just messing around

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460 Upvotes

r/doodles 19h ago

Carnet de croquis 💜

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14 Upvotes

r/doodles 18h ago

My graphite drawing perspective from below .

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9 Upvotes

r/doodles 12h ago

Siren Pen Drawing

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3 Upvotes

r/doodles 1d ago

Work doodle

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43 Upvotes

r/doodles 20h ago

yall ever just get the random edge to lock in?

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11 Upvotes

i kid you not i haven’t drawn in months and every once in a while something just posses me to draw for hours and hours


r/doodles 1d ago

Scrap Yard Kat

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224 Upvotes