Top Art & Illustration Substacks
Explore the vibrant world of art and illustration with Substack newsletters that showcase the work of talented artists and illustrators from around the globe.
Top Art & Illustration Substacks
Explore the vibrant world of art and illustration with Substack newsletters that showcase the work of talented artists and illustrators from around the globe.
#1 Austin Kleon
Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration from the author of Steal Like an Artist and other bestsellers.
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#2 Akinze’s Art
A chronicle of the paintings of the expressionist artist commonly known as Akinze.
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#3 Art Institutes
Art Institutes Organization (AIO) has a passion for empowering artists, educators, and institutions who make the art world thrive. Join us on our mission to elevate the art world and unlock the limitless potential of artistic expression.
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#4 TORVA by CANNOPY
We're moving to Arts Near You: Toronto!
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#5 DrawTogether with WendyMac
Drawing explorations, lessons, and weekly art assignments from New York Times-bestselling artist Wendy MacNaughton. Paying subscribers get full access to the DrawTogether Grown-Ups Table creative community and drawing assignments.
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#6 The FASO Way
We Inspire Artists to Inspire the World. Learn How to Market Your Art in the 21st Century Creator Economy
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#7 The Inktober Newsletter
Get ahead on all things Inktober!
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#8 Animation Obsessive
Exploring the best in animation from all around the world — part investigation, part treasure hunt.
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#9 PHOTOSNACK
ONE PHOTOGRAPHER A DAY
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#10 #The100DayProject Newsletter
The 100 Day Project is a global art community built around a simple idea: show up to your creative practice every day for 100 days. Anyone can participate! Subscribe to receive updates and daily creative prompts. Next round starts February 2027.
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#11 The Great Women Artists
Celebrating all things women artists
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#12 Something I Saw
one artwork, each week... until we're done.
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#13 FASO Collector
Today's Finest Artists Delivered Daily to Your Inbox
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#14 The Rose Period
The special, unusual, and unexpected stories of the art world that you (and I) should know about.
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#15 Feature Shoot
Feature Shoot showcases the work of photographers who are transforming the medium through compelling, cutting-edge projects.
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#16 Art Every Day
The number 1 newsletter for Art Lovers This is great art - past and present - delivered to you daily. Monday to Friday
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#17 Slowpoke
Arts & Entertainment from Carson Ellis
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#18 FlakPhoto Digest
A community hub for photography people
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#19 The Artist's Toolbox
💡Live creative sessions inspired by the wisdom of 'The Artist's Way' 🎨Supportive community to help you live your creative life ✒Monthly practical tools to boost your artistic practice
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#20 Introvert Drawing Club
Playful drawing prompts and practice sessions. 🌻 Art tips & techniques to explore your creativity with a fun, encouraging community.
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#21 gamejobs.work’s weekly artist jobs
Weekly Game Artist Jobs in 2d, 3d, Concept Art, Environment Art, Character Art
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#22 Ceramics Now Weekly
Get the latest in the ceramics world: news, in-depth articles, artist profiles, and must-see ceramic exhibitions selected by the editor of Ceramics Now
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#23 Alex Strohl
Hey, I'm Alex. I explore how creatives can build both meaningful & sustainable careers in photography.
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#24 Animation Jobs Newsletter
Weekly Animation Jobs in 2D/3D, Illustration & Storyboard
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#25 Artelligence
A global perspective on the art market from a unique point of view—delivered to your inbox.
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#26 Art History Rambles
A newsletter for those who are curious about art history and love a good chat!
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#27 Paint Here
Regular servings of inspiration for visual artists from the bestselling author of Dinotopia, Color & Light, and Imaginative Realism.
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#28 Boletim Tatuí
Novidades da cena de publicações. Arte impressa nas mais variadas formas: livro, zine, print, gravura, revista, ilustração, quadrinhos, livro de artista, design. Se é gráfico, está valendo.
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#29 Lilla Rogers
As I former agent, I love to share insights on art success, illustration, creativity, color, art supplies, retreats and more. Speaker, illustrator, author, columnist, entrepreneur, educator at Make Art That Sells with over 40,000 students.
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#30 ART DIRECTION LIBRARY
A curated image library exploring how visuals evolve through culture. Scans, studies, and archives for art directors and visual thinkers.
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#31 one minute ART RETREAT by The Jealous Curator
One minute each day to engage with inspiring contemporary art, to explore new ideas, to try simple exercises that bring beauty and calm, laughter and deep cleansing breaths -all of it thanks to ART. By author/artist, Danielle Krysa aka The Jealous Curator
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#32 The Creative Draft
The Creative Draft™ is an online community and free publication created by visual artist & illustrator, Asia Orlando. Here she shares news and updates about the Creative Life, Illustration, Digital Art and Resources for Creatives.
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#33 Art and the Craft
Artist and Witch from Italy 🦇 Currently updating my Substack content (art, inspiraion and media recommendations for the Gothic and Spooky souls)
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#34 Soft Crafts by Ella Emhoff
Softs Crafts is a space for all things creative. You’ll get patterns, tutorials, techniques, chit chat, community, fun, fun, and more fun.
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#35 Diagram
Generative Creativity
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#36 artplace
The place for art. Are you on the list?
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#37 Street Photography
A discussion about street photography illustrated with my street photos
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#38 In the Flash with Dina Litovsky
Adventures in the unseen world of photography.
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#39 ARTSTACK
The official hub for artist on Substack.
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#40 Embroidery Art by Nat's Substack
My new space where I share my embroidery art and create educational content for you 💜 Here you can find my articles with tips and tricks for beginners, video tutorials and just monthly art updates. Join my new Embroidery Membership!
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#41 Julian de Medeiros
Critique of ideology, psychoanalysis & Žižekian/Hegelian philosophy
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#42 there_y0u_are
art + design briefs by talia mayden
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#43 THE deEP STATE : The political artwork of Michael de Adder
This is the official Substack newsletter of award winning editorial cartoonist Michael de Adder.
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#44 ARTISTS PAGES
Celebrating the minds, stories, and work of living artists. To inspire and educate.
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#45 The Time Foragers' Club
Time to meet, celebrate the seasons and playfully create together.
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#46 Promptsref.com
Get Weekly Curated MidJourney SREF Codes & Prompts You’ll Love
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#47 Draw Your World
I believe everyone is an artist, including you. I share motivation & inspiration to look at the world around you to find the perfect thing to draw to express who you are and the moment you are in. From bestselling author of the Draw Your Day book series.
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#48 Paul Zizka: Fuelled by Creativity
Award-winning landscape, adventure, travel and astro photographer Paul Zizka takes you behind his images and into the creative process.
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#49 Being Nobody
Meditations on Exiting the Matrix, Being an Artist, and Awakening to Your Nature
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#50 Artdey Africa
Community of African art lovers
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#51 Watercolour Workout
Weekly watercolour lesson to make progress with 10 minutes of practice.
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#52 The Open Call List
A weekly list for photographers. Sharing opportunities for exhibitions, grants, awards, publications, residencies, jobs, fellowships, and more.
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#53 DEPTH CREATIVITY
Explore the "deep within" through expressive art and writing with psychotherapist and expressive arts educator Shelley Klammer.
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#54 Art in Latin America
Celebrating and empowering the contemporary art scene with Latin American roots // Celebrando y empoderando la escena artística contemporánea con raíces latinoamericanas
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#55 Scary Thought
Cartoons, animations, and commentary by Tom Gibson, former White House Director of Public Affairs for President Ronald Reagan -- Gibson's political cartoons principally appeared in the Washington Post and USA Today.
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#56 Women Of Illustration
Helping creatives get their art seen and paid a livable wage.
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#57 Thisispaper
What's meaningful in contemporary art, design and architecture, delivered to you every week.
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#58 Jenny’s Substack - Let's art together
Join me as I share a drawing a week to rekindle the joy of creating. Includes random musings on inspiration, motivation and how to keep pouring from your creative cup even when it feels like there's a hole in it.
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#59 InkBlot’s Substack
InkBlot Art's Newsletter! Explore and Discover the next new creative home for creators around the world! Pro Membership via InkBlot will gain access to our paid subscription here! We love to reward our supporters for supporting us.
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#60 My Studio - behind the scenes...
Welcome to my studio...this is my 'blog' for those of you who would like to know more about my life as a children's illustrator & author, learn new things and peek inside corners of my studio nobody (apart from me!) has ever visited before...
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#61 Process ☼ On Photography, by Wesley Verhoeve
A weekly photography newsletter by Wesley Verhoeve, read by 20,000+ photographers worldwide. Honest, practical writing on creative blocks, building projects, and showing up with your camera.
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#62 The Photographer’s Eye
Sharing my passion and creative process for photographing our human landscape, our interactions with it and nature, especially the often-overlooked or seemingly mundane.
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#63 Kaloh’s Newsletter
Onchain markets, tech and culture
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#64 Alphachanneling
Profane and profound- this is the home of Alphachanneling's art: bold, intimate, and unapologetic.
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#65 Paper Arts Collective Newsletter
All about photographic art in print and the paper medium
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#66 surrealist covens
An exploration of the magical activity on the canvases and between the pages of Modernism's most enigmatic artists.
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#67 Ten Minute Artist - Drawing and Journal Prompts
A community of creatives sharing daily creative joy. Post your work and get feedback in a live project chat. Start and maintain the habit with drawing and journal prompts, monthly projects, and a step-by-step gameplan led by award-winning illustrator Adam
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#68 Jake's Desk
A newsletter sharing creativity in all its forms, but mostly about comics, illustration, and the drive to make those things.
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#69 Play is the Opposite of Survival Mode
On learning to love this life
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#70 Doublethink
Illustrated Ideas
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#71 Annie Atkins
Every time you see a character in a movie read a newspaper... somebody, somewhere, had to make that newspaper. Film stuff; design stuff; book stuff; a newsletter that doesn't take itself too seriously; possibly your cup of tea.
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#72 Adam Woodworth Photography
I'm a photographer in Lubec, Maine. Check out my book "Night Sky Photography: From First Principles to Professional Results".
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#73 Model Society
Model Society is dedicated to restoring human beauty to its rightful place as a work of art. Discover and enjoy the best nude and figurative fine art in the world.
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#74 The Accidental Expert
Stories of success, failure, lucky guesses, and digital art.
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#75 AugustWren Art and News
Art, Teaching and Musings from artist Jennifer Orkin Lewis aka AugustWren
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#76 Analog Notes
A creative space for film shooters. Whether you’re just starting out or deep in the darkroom, you’ll find guidance, community, and new ways to push your work forward.
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#77 AI-power for digital ART
Stop watching. Start creating. Get paid
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#78 The Ink Pad
Illustrating life and telling stories
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#79 Jeff Dillon Fine Art
New paintings, studio notes, and thoughts on art from Canadian painter Jeff Dillon
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#80 Paper Films
Handmade films about art and life.
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#81 It's Good to Be Here
Be the artist in residence of your world. A weekly dose of wonder from artist and bestselling author Amy Stewart. Supporters get sketchbook and notebook tutorials and a deeper dive.
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#82 Arthur Miller
escrevo, falo e gravo (não nessa ordem)
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#83 Object Labels
I make exhibitions and take notes. Full-time: exhibition designer @guggenheim
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#84 Rob Ives Workshop Notes
Newsletter about making stuff .
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#85 Sketch Away with Suhita Shirodkar
Sketching Tips and Online Sketching Sessions with Suhita
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#86 La Newsletter di Alessio
Qui ti racconto i backstage delle mie uscite fotografiche e di cose che faccio, ritengo o scopro interessanti nel mio lavoro. Non ho una cadenza specifica, anche se cercherò di scrivere almeno un giorno ogni settimana.
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#87 MLearning.ai Art
AI That Actually Works For Creative Professionals 🟠 State-Of-The-Art Machine Learning Solutions 🔵 Your shortcut to AI mastery starts here
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#88 ArtGym
Build your skills as an illustrator or just have fun drawing through live practice sessions and a vibrant art community. Join professional instructors for structured, fun classes designed to develop your creative work and portfolio.
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#89 Accessible Art History's Substack
Accessible Art History is a social media based education initiative focusing on bringing art history to anyone who is curious about human creativity.
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#90 Pencil Pals
Hi, it’s me Helen Stephens. This is a juicy chat between illustrator pals. I’ll be sharing stuff about making picture books that you might feel daft asking. When you sign up you’ll get the Illustrators Freebies. Yes-please-thank-you!
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#91 Schmoe's Cosy Art Club
Subscribe for some weekly motivation, my latest news and all the past newsletters <3
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#92 Little Truths
Artist. Writer. Seeker. Picture taker. Feeler of feelings. Dispatches from Little Truths Studio and Paint Water Farm.
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#93 The Wahlflower
Missives from the studio of author & illustrator Phoebe Wahl
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#94 The Little Brown Mushroom Newsletter
Photography and visual storytelling
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#95 Subjectively Objective
Artist Features, Photobook Reviews, Interviews with Artists & Insights Into The Photobook Making Process
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#96 The Colour | Newsletter | Lab | Community
Foraged colour, found pigments and natural markings from Jason Logan the author of Make Ink.
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#97 Earthling
musings on art, life and being human
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#98 Anthony Morganti on Photography
A weekly newsletter where I offer my musings on photography and the photographic process that I developed over my 46 year career as a professional photographer.
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#99 THESE THINGS NOW by Moorea Seal
Tarot, mixtapes, and artful object curation for kooky, creative and curious minds. By Moorea Seal—artist, recovering retailer, your quirky and queer auntie, and author of The 52 Lists Project + Every Little Thing You Do Is Magic Tarot.
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#100 MoMa Weekly
Art competitions. Creative resources. Wonderful things.
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