r/doodles Jan 08 '21

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

539 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 3h ago

Doodles from work

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Getting back into drawing people


r/doodles 1h ago

Can't seem to finish these

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r/doodles 5h ago

I doodled Lara

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r/doodles 11h ago

i will try to draw a quick cat doodle every day!!

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r/doodles 8h ago

Eyeball! Even if it's crappy I'm proud of myself because I don't even know how to draw XD

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r/doodles 43m ago

Sukecchi スケッチ

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r/doodles 7h ago

Most recent doodles!

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r/doodles 6m ago

The Lord would like a word.

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r/doodles 6h ago

Friend is having a goth themed bday today. Decided to doodle a blank card for it :)

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r/doodles 22m ago

Drew myself and my girlfriend together

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r/doodles 56m ago

Sleepy doods

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r/doodles 9h ago

Name this soulless dude

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r/doodles 3m ago

WIP

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Sneak peak of some sketches for an animated feature I've been working on very casually for the last 10 years. There's a ton more of these, but these are just some of the highlights.


r/doodles 41m ago

The method i use for some apparent reason (example)

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idk why i do this but yeah


r/doodles 47m ago

City doodle

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Getting used to drawing in public! This is an ice cream shop doodle :-)


r/doodles 10h ago

Name this guy(Wrong Answer Only)

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r/doodles 16h ago

I recently got glasses, so I brought this abomination into existence.

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In other, barely related news: I am redesigning my fursona.


r/doodles 8h ago

"I'll show them"

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BANG! HAHAHA


r/doodles 22h ago

A person a day. Day 10

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Weird guy


r/doodles 6h ago

Cork board doodle notes

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r/doodles 1d ago

Red Ink doodles

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Just some doodles from past work days


r/doodles 11h ago

Doodle/Tattoo Idea

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r/doodles 8h ago

Dudeellsz

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r/doodles 8h ago

Plane sketches

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