r/doodles Jan 08 '21

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

567 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 7h ago

Warrior set doodles

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In the middle of stressful day😢


r/doodles 5h ago

Birthday Cat

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It’s not even his birthday


r/doodles 2h ago

Butterfly lady

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r/doodles 8h ago

The Summoning

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r/doodles 2h ago

Doodle on a kleenex

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r/doodles 7h ago

Some frogs. What would his name be?

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r/doodles 7h ago

my life

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Coding is still too difficult for me, so I tried drawing instead.

I still burn fried eggs sometimes.

I'm going to create an app to honor beloved pets.

It will have a virtual memorial where people can remember and visit their pets.


r/doodles 1h ago

A selection of drinks from film and tv

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r/doodles 28m ago

Killer jelly doughnut

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r/doodles 2h ago

gran gran’s so cute

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Y’all can agree right?


r/doodles 36m ago

Doodling at work 😁

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r/doodles 1h ago

Frustrated T-Rex

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r/doodles 1h ago

There's this cute character I did a while ago, became a common theme for me.

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r/doodles 2h ago

does anyone know the band nine inch nails i made some inspired artwork work of their official artwork the fragile and the slip

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this is all inspired artwork i made from the official artwork nine inch nails have on their individual songs on their albums and audio products if you have an opinion or habe actual useful criticism please comment. help me out


r/doodles 7h ago

lil clown lady from last night🫶🏻

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r/doodles 5h ago

Some faces

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r/doodles 8h ago

USSR Officer

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r/doodles 6h ago

Watercolor doodle

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r/doodles 16m ago

Barwoman

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r/doodles 18m ago

Making doodles of couples to afford my food

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These are a few examples of


r/doodles 32m ago

Magical girl

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r/doodles 1h ago

July 22nd 2026 Art.

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r/doodles 1h ago

Which Eevee are you today?

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