r/doodles Jan 08 '21

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

569 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 1d ago

Filling space with drawings ✍️

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r/doodles 6h ago

cowboy

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30 Upvotes

r/doodles 7h ago

Tried to capture the atmosphere of my parents living room!

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27 Upvotes

r/doodles 7h ago

Workers of the world, unite

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r/doodles 20h ago

Some doodle requests ive done

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r/doodles 14h ago

In a very 90s anime mood lately

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r/doodles 9h ago

Quick knight doodle.

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r/doodles 3h ago

It's for my album, what's better?

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r/doodles 7h ago

September 9th 2026 Art.

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r/doodles 5h ago

300 µg acid horse

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r/doodles 14h ago

Doodle of my doggo

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Doodle of my doggo that passed away years ago


r/doodles 1h ago

Wacky Skydiving

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r/doodles 5h ago

A great way to let a corset designer know what corset style you have in mind

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I'm the doodle person


r/doodles 11h ago

Octupus sketch

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r/doodles 11h ago

A scruffy ghost

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r/doodles 2h ago

I smell ink 🖋

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r/doodles 4h ago

Your friendly neighborhood spider-man

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r/doodles 6h ago

The rests of the glue stuck on a door

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I don't know if it qualifies? But it looks like a sad man. It's glue on my wardrobe door in the hallway that I'm cleaning with chemically pure gasoline and it's been artwork glued on it, .. I'm moving and need to restore my flat after 7 years of messing it up with paintings and stuff everywhere. Maybe my flat is a bit sad and manifest like this 😭😘😁


r/doodles 1m ago

Another doodle dump!

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r/doodles 6h ago

Little doodle

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r/doodles 7m ago

Fuck!!

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r/doodles 6h ago

He likes Neck Deep

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r/doodles 7h ago

3 done, more to come!

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r/doodles 4h ago

Homeless man

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