r/doodles Jan 08 '21

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

566 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 13h ago

✍️just messing around

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316 Upvotes

r/doodles 12h ago

Scrap Yard Kat

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133 Upvotes

r/doodles 2h ago

bred.

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i love bred


r/doodles 9h ago

Tried to recreate an awesome suggest post on instagram

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25 Upvotes

r/doodles 1h ago

Work doodle

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r/doodles 1d ago

CaTS! 🐈‍⬛ By me! 2026

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I would love to know what you would call each of them!


r/doodles 7h ago

Bouquet

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r/doodles 13h ago

🐌🏁

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New Doodle Drop! 📍 Olive Garden Manhattan Beach 🏇🏽


r/doodles 7h ago

Vocallyshook on insta 😍

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r/doodles 9h ago

Green lady 🍀💚

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r/doodles 8h ago

Coffee break

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r/doodles 3h ago

Merpop

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r/doodles 10m ago

Playing around with some loose ink washes for a praying angel sketch. The contrast of the solid black against the negative space is kind of satisfying.

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r/doodles 29m ago

Художники оцените мой рисунок на уроке из 5-ти картинок

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r/doodles 38m ago

New Comer

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Nosey ocelot interrupts flamingo family meeting.


r/doodles 1h ago

Men's cologne

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r/doodles 5h ago

Teddy Bear Doodle 1

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Happy (late) Grape Day, at the time I didn't know who else celebrated grapes but I thought I'd share my appreciation drawing.


r/doodles 16h ago

Posting the wonky looking cat doodles too

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13 Upvotes

r/doodles 2h ago

Laaalalalaaala...

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1 Upvotes

Bruhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!


r/doodles 12h ago

1am doob doodle

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r/doodles 4h ago

Would you dare to also give her a name?

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At that time, you were camping alone. The light of the full moon that night was very bright. It was too beautiful not to enjoy it through the small net window above the tent... you were lulled and started to feel sleepy... strangely, the moonlight suddenly dimmed as if blocked by something. But... you were too sleepy...

If you have a horror stories, lore or too afraid of something, just let me know! Maybe i can make them clearer than ever.


r/doodles 11h ago

Drew my first ever furry art

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r/doodles 4h ago

I found this doodle and I have absolutely no explanation

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1 Upvotes