pencil on paper is lit!!!!!!!!!!!! 
I struggle to doodle at all, whether with pen or digitally. I just...don't. It's like inspiration for drawing only strikes when I have a story to tell with it. Otherwise, I just can't think of anything to draw. It's very irritating! I wish I was a doodler 
Totally fair - I spent a lot more years working traditionally before I transitioned to digital.
I know the Apple Pencil has forever ruined all pens for me. However I fill out a lot of paper work/ order forms during the day for my work so regular pens still feel pretty natural in my hand
Yeah I think thats really what it comes down to for me - is my brain is programmed to do finished pieces with digital but I'd really like to break that! I try and bring my ipad with my everywhere now instead of a sketchbook and pencil case (way less bulky) so maybe over time I will re-write the programming!
Thats actually a good point - I think I have gotten stuck and just use the brush set I made for my comic. I will try and branch out, and hopefully that will help!
Haha yeah I definitely do that too - that is one thing I absolutely love about digital is being able to re-size and re-position a drawing!
It really is - I just never bring my sketchbook anymore takes up too much space!
Aww 
Yeah I have been lucky in that aspect. My brain always needs to be multi-tasking and doodling was a way for me to do that in school during lectures and what not - it helps me retain information and is also just cathartic.
I think my hangup with doodling digitally is more about how doodling on paper was about a lack of "permanency" to the results. I would go through reams of copier paper a month...aimlessly.
With digital, the process has layers of saves and files... It just feels differently
Oddly I think the lack of permanency is what holds me back digitally sometimes - it is much easier to keep hitting ctrl + z, where as with pen and ink there is no undo so you fudge up a line then you have to make it work..
Very true about the layers though!
I just don't draw digitally at all (aside from coloring) because I never really took to inking digitally. I did for years because I weirdly thought it was what I as supposed to do but I would stop drawing for months at a time because it just kinda stopped being fun for me.
It took me forever to realize that more than half the people in my niche of comics work mostly traditional. And once I made the switch back I just haven't had any problems getting into it.
Some of the difference here might be in our definitions of "doodling". Anything where I cared about the final product doesn't really count for me. I was prone to mindlessly sketching during all sorts of activities then gathering them weekly and dumping anything I didn't see value in pursuing into the recycling. Depending on the week, I could have all kinds of nonsense on those doddle pages.
I think thats why I get stuck trying to doodle digitally because my subconscious equates digital with final product - so even when I try to draw aimlessly there is a voice in the back of my head going " nope" not good" "ERASE" UNDO!!!!!" lol so I have trouble shutting that off and just letting the drawings flow.
I was also required to keep a sketchbook through out Junior High and High School ( I went to an arts school) sometimes with page quotas - so I kind of trained myself to always have a certain level of polish - even with my doodles. I would like to get to the point where you are at!
Yeah, sketching and doodling digitally still feels a little weird/harder than traditionally for me (granted I've only really been using digital a lot for about 2 years now, and have like 20 before that in traditional practice xD)
Like part of it is the temptation to zoom in even though that messes with my sense of proportion massively while setting up the basic shapes for my drawing. I also feel like i should start doodling with my pen pressure turned off because, for me at least who is used to doodling in mechanical pencil and ball point pen, having the line fluxuation while doodling feels weird.
Buuuut i def prefer doing the sketch phase of drawings that I'm planning to develop digitally, even if i end up printing them out to ink with my light box. The ability to fully erase and marquee and rotate and reposition things is a god send when penciling. I've started doing my comic sketches this way and have def noticed a difference in efficiency and speed
That's interesting because my art educational experience was primarily about process not results so I often credit it with habits I developed. One of my AFO teachers would barrel burn our projects and portfolios after he reviewed them...at the time it was repeatedly horrifying, but in the long term it changed your relationship with the importance of what you created.
That's happened to me from time to time. I'll draw something in my sketchbook, want to use it for a page and can't get it right. Sometimes I just take a picture of my sketch and ink it over digitally 
Only a few times though. My sketchbook is mostly used for thumbnailing and quick character/scene ideas. I find physical drawing easier for my in-the-moment brainstorming. Likewise when it comes to more "official" art like character models and comic pencils to more natural on digital. Probably because I can fix mistakes easier and my inks come out clear on computer.
Overall I'd say I'm better digital since I've spent more time digital. If I had the money and time I would like to practice traditional inking again.
Oh yeah, doodling digitally is harder for me. Mostly because of the pen flow and the difference in stroke I can't really get via digital. I haven't been drawing on paper lately bit when I do, it usually finished quicker then when I draw on digital
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I dont have issues doing either- but I do have issues doing either one at various times...sometimes I'll do well with drawing digitally and I'll struggle to draw traditionally for a spell- and vice versa.
Yeah..looking back I really didn't get the best art education - unfortunately I kept getting placed in the 'bad' art teacher's class and I think I missed out on a lot. College helped expand my knowledge, but didn't' quite disrupt the bad foundation that had been laid.
I love traditional inking! Lately I've created a digital sketchbook (technically just a folder) in procreate to try and mimic the practice of using a physical sketchbook but digitally instead I think it is starting to help blend the two practices!
Fair, I've never really struggled with that issue - but I usually have my pen pressure sensitivity pretty high
True - I think I'm also in a bit of an art lull right now which is just exacerbating the issue... I am so used to only having time to work on my comic and now that I am on hiatus - I do have a bit of free time here and there to draw whatever I want and I have no idea what to draw!
yeah, i significantly prefer doodling physically, and esp sketching i now hate doing digitally. smth abt pencil on paper is more immediate and physical for me
You can change the nib of your tablet pens you know? Some of them feel more like pencil on paper when using them. It's really interesting to try different nib tips.
I can relate to this thread... I got my first tablet almost 3 months ago, and I'm still not used to drawing on it 
It just doesn't feel right. But it's kind of opposite to OP's problem; I actually can make doodles with it, though it doesn't feel as natural as it does on paper, and turning them into something more finished is extremely hard.
Keeping track of proportions, making fluid lines, adding details, etc. - all that is so much more difficult for me digitally, even though it is already plenty hard on paper... I go through multiple layers of rough sketching and it still doesn't look even half as good as it would on paper. Does anyone else have this problem? Like, not with doodling, but with doing "finished" digital works?
I spend many years wishing I had a tablet, and now I'm just frustrated with how the transition to digital art actually made my poor skills even worse 
At first drawing felt differently. People would just say, "Just draw the same way you would draw traditionally" but it's really is a different mindset. I needed to respect the fact that it was naturally a different media, so I made a habit of leveraging layers a bit more than normal since it's the most obvious difference.
After that its just picking out personal tendencies and drawing habits that dont transition as well.