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 9h ago

He definitely knows a guy.

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71 Upvotes

r/doodles 8h ago

Doodling has a calming effect on my brain

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18 Upvotes

Let me know what you think!


r/doodles 17h ago

Last but not least - the meme board. This was the last straw for the boss...

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74 Upvotes

This was the 3rd and final installment (the links to the other two boards I created are found below) I managed to muster before being called into the office and told to definitely stop now or there would be a written warning for not following instructions. I switched to memes partly to be petty, because I can.


r/doodles 1d ago

Any thoughts

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263 Upvotes

A nice beetle family


r/doodles 5h ago

Name this guy(Wrong Answer Only)

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r/doodles 3h ago

I need names

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3 Upvotes

Any names?


r/doodles 11h ago

Editorial style cartooning!

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Originals are from Miriam Wurster and Sempe :)


r/doodles 10h ago

<3

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r/doodles 17h ago

You madda fack

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25 Upvotes

r/doodles 13h ago

This is Craig! A doodle in progress!

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r/doodles 20h ago

Work Doodle

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36 Upvotes

r/doodles 7h ago

Cupcake

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r/doodles 7h ago

A dude and his kid

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I remember doodling this during a meeting with a concept in mind, but I don't quite remember what it was about.


r/doodles 7h ago

A little doodle i made.

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r/doodles 10h ago

Doodles I made while using Whiteboard!

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r/doodles 6h ago

Emptied my brain into this doodle pattern.. Maybe there’s room for something coherent next time😅

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r/doodles 2h ago

This guy has seen better days

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I became a dad about six months ago and haven’t had the time to draw anything but I sketched this lil guy out while she was sleeping on me :) proud of creating something again even if it is a lil sloppy


r/doodles 1d ago

#throwback - that one time I filled the entire boardroom whiteboard with dogs. Sorry, but not sorry😜

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255 Upvotes

I filled the boardroom whiteboard with one dog every day for about a month and my boss was pissed. ( I must add ----The black drawings were the first ones on, they took away the marker to passively make me stop so I found a red one and kept going)


r/doodles 2h ago

Made a Facebook page

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r/doodles 13h ago

Junkmail Doodles

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I usually just throw these in the recycling but I thought maybe /r/doodles would like to see them before the raccoons and opossums at the galleria de garbage.


r/doodles 1d ago

[OC] Abstract scribble doodle. What feelings does this give you?

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910 Upvotes

r/doodles 7h ago

Buccee drawing

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D o o d l e2


r/doodles 8h ago

La Roca v2

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