r/doodles Jan 08 '21

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

574 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

Quick sketches + rubber band doodle

Thumbnail
gallery
121 Upvotes

r/doodles 9h ago

Office doodle: Mr Blue Heron

Post image
36 Upvotes

r/doodles 15h ago

Spider frog is going through it right now

Post image
92 Upvotes

r/doodles 4h ago

Cooked up whatever this is

Post image
10 Upvotes

r/doodles 1h ago

Doodle!

Post image
Upvotes

r/doodles 6h ago

Don’t even know what I’m doing half the time 😭

Post image
10 Upvotes

r/doodles 1d ago

i miss using paints..

Thumbnail
gallery
872 Upvotes

r/doodles 3h ago

A lil Among Us thing I drew

Thumbnail
gallery
5 Upvotes

I dunno man I was bored


r/doodles 7h ago

Therapy waiting room doodling

Post image
10 Upvotes

Working the bugs out

Mechanical pencil by me


r/doodles 1d ago

Stupid rubber band sketch

Thumbnail
gallery
255 Upvotes

r/doodles 1h ago

“Better check that bus schedule, I’ve been standing here since Sunday…” 🚏

Thumbnail
gallery
Upvotes

📍Culver City Hall


r/doodles 11h ago

Doodled something around my username

Post image
17 Upvotes

Then colored it with alcohol markers.


r/doodles 2h ago

Toriel doodle after finishing Undertale for the first time

Post image
3 Upvotes

r/doodles 5h ago

LITERALLY LEFT MY SISTER UNSUPERVISED FOR 2 MINUTES!!! 2 MINUTES!

Post image
6 Upvotes

Left to right,

  1. My sis' persona

Below her

  1. Her friend's persona

And the other two you know them...

(The guy at the corner is prolly me.)


r/doodles 1h ago

Some Doodles

Post image
Upvotes

Drew some different things that came to mind with some inspiration from Pinterest. I think this counts as one rather than a sketch.


r/doodles 4h ago

Been drawing silly guys in whiteboard fox

Thumbnail
gallery
3 Upvotes

r/doodles 33m ago

Doodling crap I saw on reddit 2

Thumbnail
gallery
Upvotes

r/doodles 4h ago

yello

Post image
2 Upvotes

scraPs


r/doodles 6h ago

Artist Books Assignment #1.

Thumbnail
gallery
3 Upvotes

r/doodles 42m ago

Morning thoughts put onto a page

Post image
Upvotes

r/doodles 4h ago

yello

Post image
2 Upvotes

r/doodles 8h ago

Blue Squiggle Doodle - September 1 2026

Post image
3 Upvotes

r/doodles 13h ago

Sometimes my random pen doodles turn out to be my favorite pieces. What do you guys think?

Post image
8 Upvotes

r/doodles 22h ago

Sketch I did after class today!

Post image
30 Upvotes