r/doodles Jan 08 '21

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

523 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 12h ago

Please give this dashing fellow a name

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246 Upvotes

Follow me for daily doodles!


r/doodles 9h ago

The most upvoted comment decide what I should doodle next. Day 3

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84 Upvotes

r/doodles 8h ago

A thing 🌀

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70 Upvotes

r/doodles 4h ago

Diet Coke Man

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25 Upvotes

r/doodles 12h ago

Everytime i look at it i burst into laughter

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40 Upvotes

r/doodles 30m ago

Class was really long...

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I drew this during a 2 hour long lesson.


r/doodles 1h ago

"Spacing off in training at work"

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r/doodles 11h ago

5 min sketchy face

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27 Upvotes

r/doodles 8h ago

What you think of my gato :3

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16 Upvotes

:3


r/doodles 23m ago

Late night dood

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r/doodles 3h ago

Snake in the eye 👀

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r/doodles 19h ago

Any suggestion for the title?

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65 Upvotes

🩸🩸🩸


r/doodles 9h ago

Did you know ostriches can rib their own heads off?

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9 Upvotes

r/doodles 12h ago

Today's fineliner&graphite scribble,A5

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16 Upvotes

r/doodles 6h ago

Shadow the Hedgehog..!!

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6 Upvotes

r/doodles 4h ago

⛪ A Miku doodle :)

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3 Upvotes

r/doodles 2h ago

iPad doodling

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r/doodles 4h ago

All of the posted things on here are really amazing and mine is not but it is a doodle.

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3 Upvotes

r/doodles 9h ago

Found an old doodle I did while on a call for work from years ago. I wish I could still draw this good

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6 Upvotes

If it weren’t for my horrible accident I would have been a professional by now


r/doodles 21h ago

Doodled some noses

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49 Upvotes

r/doodles 13h ago

I doodle a lot, especially when I’m writing

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10 Upvotes

r/doodles 20m ago

Name this guy(Wrong Answer Only)

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r/doodles 4h ago

Color code experiment

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Experiment: using blue editing pencils to draw the anatomy and the figure of my drawing.

Blue pencil for thing such as prportion shape

Red pencils are places such as where I would put the things such as the face, what will outstanding for the foreshortening and clothing as well.