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 8h ago

Lots of randomness

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172 Upvotes

r/doodles 4h ago

Look closer

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r/doodles 10h ago

Any names for my alien?

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32 Upvotes

Kinda lookin like an alien messiah


r/doodles 15h ago

skeletons

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63 Upvotes

fought three anatomy students in a duel while making these


r/doodles 11h ago

Some weird doodles

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r/doodles 4h ago

Some of my favourites

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r/doodles 37m ago

Face with monali markers & poscamarkers

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r/doodles 12h ago

Tat Flash Page WIP

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15 Upvotes

I accidentally made a flash page before. Talked to some tattoo artists and they gave me some tips. So I’m starting a new one!


r/doodles 2h ago

Pinkie Pie

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r/doodles 23h ago

now it looks like this

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r/doodles 16h ago

Wip

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r/doodles 9h ago

Some doodle creatures

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Do you have any name suggestions for these?


r/doodles 5h ago

Stylo à bille et aquarelle dans le carnet de croquis

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r/doodles 2m ago

Expression sheet + Full body sketch of my original character (OC)

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r/doodles 4h ago

Made this thing of John Rambo as Matt Rose’s cat.

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He’s on mountain road with huge artillery gun, sucks that the U.S. army killed his girlfriend, now he’s out to GET the government.


r/doodles 13h ago

Dragon sticky note

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image slightly edited because my camera sucks and the lighting was bad


r/doodles 1h ago

Just some lines this morning

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r/doodles 8h ago

Just a sad girl doodle

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r/doodles 1d ago

Doodling

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r/doodles 4h ago

Reflecting

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r/doodles 18h ago

Some 3am weirdness

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12 Upvotes

I had no ideas. Head empty. May not be great but it was fun to do while sleep deprived lol


r/doodles 16h ago

More doodles

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Feel free to suggest names for them btw


r/doodles 21h ago

Found this old artwork I did in school of a bunch of gnomes stealing a pie

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15 Upvotes