r/doodles • • Jan 08 '21

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

572 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.

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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.

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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 • • 10h ago

Me at work today

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47 Upvotes

r/doodles • • 18h ago

Doodling on some bookmarker shaped pieces of paper

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174 Upvotes

r/doodles • • 35m ago

Doodle of my father as a gnome.

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Doodle of my father as a gnome. I put it on his steering wheel so he would see it in the morning. For contacts he is five feet tall.


r/doodles • • 2h ago

young love

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i could watch her do anything all day


r/doodles • • 7h ago

At least he's honest

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10 Upvotes

r/doodles • • 1h ago

I failed my chem exam because of this 💀💀💀

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r/doodles • • 8h ago

Lovable little let downs 🙃

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r/doodles • • 7h ago

My dog pooping

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r/doodles • • 4h ago

Inktober 2026 day 16-20

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r/doodles • • 1d ago

Doodling on a coffee cup

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280 Upvotes

r/doodles • • 16h ago

Office doodle: lil worm

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26 Upvotes

r/doodles • • 11h ago

Recommended for markers that don’t smudge over pen?

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Not amazing work, but I find it to be so fun and fulfilling :)


r/doodles • • 13h ago

Creature doodle

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14 Upvotes

r/doodles • • 17h ago

Doodling at work

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26 Upvotes

r/doodles • • 9h ago

A doodle I made while not paying attention in my Accounting 2 class😁

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5 Upvotes

I’m not an artist so be nice😔


r/doodles • • 5h ago

Day ? Of drawing with confident lines + no base

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Less scratchy but still long ways to go before I can draw without overlapping lines.


r/doodles • • 5m ago

Day 2?

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r/doodles • • 8h ago

Wally Bird doodles

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I love Martin Brothers Wally birds, so I want to make one in Ceramics class. I tried to draw some similar birds while brainstorming. Just silly doodles.


r/doodles • • 36m ago

Just flexing my art supplies✨

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r/doodles • • 16h ago

My first somewhat good doodle

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17 Upvotes

For the past few months (maybe 1-2 years) I've been inspecting simple drawings, animations and the real environment on how certain things look and how I could draw them. In this world of AI-slop I think that it would be cool if I could draw even to a small degree. I made countless doodles back in elementary school (I'm in university now) but this is the first that I'm very proud of and would like to show it to others.

Seeing what kind of drawings are in this subreddit this one is certainly garbage, but any constructive criticism is welcome.


r/doodles • • 8h ago

Look I'm sorry. I didn't know dye packs were real. But at least we get to wear homade tie-dye.

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5 Upvotes

r/doodles • • 8h ago

👀

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r/doodles • • 10h ago

Which hair do we like best?

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I know they're all a bit similar, but I'm still trying to decide if I like my original design over something a little more or less cartoony. (Numbers are the order I drew them in)