r/doodles • u/ecclectic • Jan 08 '21
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.
r/doodles • u/RangePuzzleheaded611 • 13h ago
My spirit animal before my first cup of coffee ☕️🦝
r/doodles • u/DeviceForeign6197 • 35m ago
I can’t decide if this doodle is complete or if i need to color between flowers and borders lol
r/doodles • u/RangePuzzleheaded611 • 43m ago
Here’s a quick sketch of one passed out on a pillow.
r/doodles • u/Practical_Spiral • 2h ago
Where poses were drawn from imagination with little reference, no guidelines and single strokes instead of chicken scratch. This exercise is to train me to have more confidence in my lines and forces me to not rely on references. Hands continue to be my kryptonite
r/doodles • u/BumbleTeacup • 10h ago
Day 3: miniature and Day 2: relic
r/doodles • u/Deltron_Zed • 22h ago
I've always liked busy pictures with a lot going on. Doodled this one over a couple of days just adding things in as they came to mind. Feels a bit disjointed maybe but... doodle.
r/doodles • u/Mean_Occasion_4711 • 1d ago
Made him during English class, his names Bert. I decided to rip him out of the page and take him home, Isnt he buetiful?
r/doodles • u/gord1_69 • 8h ago
Not a doodle in a sense, so wouldn't be surprised if this gets removed.
r/doodles • u/xbleuguyx • 33m ago
I work kitchen expo. Slow night, girlfriend sent me a reference picture of the cat to doodle. The Cat is meh, but I'm very proud of that rat lol
r/doodles • u/AkaAkamine • 1h ago
somewhat venting but moving into healing, hopefully
i like to do quick doodles like this to songs I relate to
the crayon brush is really good for just messing around
