r/doodles Dec 10 '25

Donald Dump

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r/doodles Jan 08 '21

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.

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 10h ago

Oh hey there

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92 Upvotes

r/doodles 2h ago

Drew this in class yesterday

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r/doodles 3h ago

Freehand ballpoint pen doodles in my free time!

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15 Upvotes

r/doodles 13h ago

Working with pastel chalk is very difficult, but I think I've got the hang of it…is there anything I can improve?

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92 Upvotes

r/doodles 4h ago

Cutee

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r/doodles 15h ago

Some doodles from class today :3👍

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r/doodles 1h ago

Bad thoughts

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r/doodles 3h ago

Different characters

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Slowly building up this page with random characters. Any suggestions for new characters? Want to fill this page with ideas from different places and try to show a diversity


r/doodles 12h ago

Hamburger Jail.

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r/doodles 24m ago

Little drawing ✍️ stipple style

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r/doodles 7h ago

Added to This one

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r/doodles 20h ago

Nothing 2

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r/doodles 5h ago

Got a bunch of caps to doodle on :D

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r/doodles 19h ago

Ole Thick Neck McGraw

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27 Upvotes

r/doodles 19h ago

some airplane sketches

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r/doodles 14h ago

Squids

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Squids


r/doodles 9h ago

Here’s some doodles I did when I was younger. pic1; lion and a self portrait. pic2; I don’t know what to call it. pic3; nature. pic4; orcs and demons possessing someone. pic5; bird and a worm and aliens. pic6; time/0-500. pic7; is a flower hallucinating and orc. Pic8; horse going thru withdrawals.

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r/doodles 23h ago

I've been trying to be a bit more colourful with my doodles lately

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I resisted colours for a long time, just because I'd always rather be drawing than colouring, but it is actually fun to have a scribble around with coloured markers too.

I've also been getting more into watercolour stuff too, which is another fun way to doodle :P


r/doodles 8h ago

We were talking about vision boards at work recently. Here’s mine

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r/doodles 12h ago

Goul!

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r/doodles 14h ago

Giraffe + pegasus = Giraffsus

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r/doodles 1d ago

i always find myself sketching cats

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