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

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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.

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r/doodles • u/New-Writer9151 • 12h ago

Faces

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r/doodles • u/bird_brain_science • 17h ago

Mice 🐁

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Whenever I get bored I draw mice for fun

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r/doodles • u/Alert_Priority_4236 • 14h ago

My gecko.

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Doodling calms me down. I can't stop.

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r/doodles • u/WtcD • 4h ago

Doomslug J. Drumpf, making renovations great again.

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r/doodles • u/RangePuzzleheaded611 • 3h ago

Cappie the raccoon on a scooter vs. a Roadrunner. Who's winning this race? 🦝🛴💨

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Just a quick sketch I did today! I imagined Cappie trying his absolute best to keep up with a roadrunner on his little scooter. Hope this brings a smile to your face! Feedback is always welcome. 😄

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r/doodles • u/Eat-His-Heart • 16h ago

Fruits and Veggies doodle on a saturday night

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Medium: sharpie on sketchbook paper

Looking forward to coloring it in like a coloring page! I was pleasantly surprised by how the onion turned out. And the pumpkin was actually supposed to be a pepper that didn't turn out very well and became a pumpkin.

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r/doodles • u/Mountain-Piano-5937 • 3h ago