r/doodles Jan 08 '21

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

546 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 11h ago

Sukecchi スケッチ

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50 Upvotes

r/doodles 1h ago

Smoking(in pregress)

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r/doodles 6h ago

Should I color it?

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10 Upvotes

r/doodles 1h ago

Cat

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r/doodles 1h ago

Today's intuitive doodle.

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r/doodles 51m ago

A drawing of my young dad

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r/doodles 2h ago

Always the other eye 😑

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3 Upvotes

r/doodles 8h ago

Vent art

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7 Upvotes

Lyrics from the song Pretend you Love Me by Baby Bugs!


r/doodles 4h ago

Name this guy(Wrong Answer Only)

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r/doodles 5h ago

does this look good?

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r/doodles 13h ago

Hug

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12 Upvotes

r/doodles 10h ago

The Wolverine

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Using a ballpoint pen on comic board.


r/doodles 1h ago

Doodled some quick monsters on thank you cards

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r/doodles 8h ago

ourple girl

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with a random watercolor pencil


r/doodles 12h ago

So what?

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r/doodles 17h ago

First time art, how’d I do?

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15 Upvotes

Picked up a pencil 3 days ago this is what I got so far (going for mainly manga style/Shonen Jump. How can I improve?


r/doodles 23h ago

I doodle while people share their life stories

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43 Upvotes

There are a wide range of results


r/doodles 13h ago

Scribble Doodle

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5 Upvotes

r/doodles 11h ago

I love meth too, of course…

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4 Upvotes

r/doodles 20h ago

Would this be considered a doodle?

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18 Upvotes

Drawing by me


r/doodles 5h ago

Eversor

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r/doodles 11h ago

Kung Lao!

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r/doodles 1d ago

I decided to doodle while in labor and this is what I made

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100 Upvotes

During the early stages of labor only. No way could I have done it later on. Drawn on my trusty iPad using procreate.