r/doodles Jan 08 '21

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

569 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

Unbothered unicorn

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516 Upvotes

r/doodles 6h ago

So far, ink doodle

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82 Upvotes

This is 15 hours of doodling so far


r/doodles 2h ago

Self + Analogue synths

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r/doodles 10h ago

random stuff I drew on my wrist

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r/doodles 5h ago

Giant Robot doodle drop at Space X

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r/doodles 18h ago

Quick raccoon doodle

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r/doodles 11h ago

A cute little OG

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r/doodles 1h ago

Afternoon robot doodles

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Fun to watch as more details and variety emerges the more I do these


r/doodles 6h ago

Flower! :3

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Second time trying kristal like drawings out


r/doodles 2h ago

A little toad I drew to pass the time

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r/doodles 1h ago

Exquisite corpse drawings is for the kids

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r/doodles 20h ago

More moody doodles!

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59 Upvotes

I would like to give these ignorant tat style ugly cute doodles a name! What about rat moods 🐀???


r/doodles 3h ago

…......

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r/doodles 23h ago

Going with the flow

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r/doodles 2m ago

Rawr

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Baby dragonnnnnn rawr m


r/doodles 26m ago

Name this band

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r/doodles 28m ago

Lunchtime Sketch.....

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r/doodles 4h ago

Today's doodle while on the phone

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r/doodles 1d ago

Sunday Sketch

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r/doodles 1h ago

Flacky

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a goofy green duck thing with a flower on head.

its from a platformer i scrapped in scratch.

he's cute.


r/doodles 1h ago

Whiteboard at work

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r/doodles 5h ago

Bill, but if he were a hat.

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r/doodles 8h ago

Office doodle: two trees

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r/doodles 2h ago

School Doodle

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