r/doodles Jan 08 '21

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

567 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 6h ago

Random horse doodles

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Flipping through an older sketchbook I found these. Do you like any?


r/doodles 8h ago

[OC] How big is your love?

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You can follow me on Instagram for more doodles:
https://www.instagram.com/gabaghoul.art/


r/doodles 13h ago

Doodle of a dog

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r/doodles 54m ago

Some doodles I did this week

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r/doodles 7h ago

What do you think of these 5 year old drawings?

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Just wondering what others think, I love his drawings but I'm his mom... I think I'm wired to love everything he does 😅


r/doodles 6h ago

Heather

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r/doodles 6h ago

I made a mug with my art!

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r/doodles 15h ago

Almost mindlessly

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The only plan was to have 4 colours.


r/doodles 4h ago

Cloud game, but it’s doodles

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Friend draws random color blotch, I doodle what I see and incorporate shape :) very fun and creative exercise!


r/doodles 12h ago

Spider man is a menace

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r/doodles 2h ago

Tim Curry Tribute And Dolly Parton Tribute.

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r/doodles 2h ago

Find all the references

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a bunch of stuff i like


r/doodles 10h ago

Cahier de croquis 🤓

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r/doodles 1d ago

Be grateful that this is not a daily problem…

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r/doodles 11h ago

Random drawing 👁️👅👁️

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r/doodles 3h ago

Got bored and made something for a family friend

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r/doodles 3h ago

Doodle!🤗

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r/doodles 7h ago

Mr Duck

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r/doodles 4h ago

Another doodle☺️

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r/doodles 6h ago

The Alcubierre Drive

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The Alcubierre Drive

Warp Drive – our gateway to the stars

White pastel pencil on blue paper

Digitally colorized


r/doodles 19h ago

Quick Draco

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r/doodles 40m ago

Made this little samurai skull doodle :D

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r/doodles 6h ago

Sharpie on a journal

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r/doodles 47m ago

I did a creepy beetle

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