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.
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#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 TORVA by CANNOPY
TORVA is a newsletter for TORonto's Visual Arts community, presented by CANNOPY. TORVA presents exclusive interviews with visual artists in the GTA, alongside reviews of noteworthy exhibit experiences. | www.cannopy.com
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#4 BoldBrush
We Inspire Artists to Inspire the World. Learn How to Market Your Art in the 21st Century Creator Economy
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#5 The Inktober Newsletter
Get ahead on all things Inktober!
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#6 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 the 30-Day Drawing Habit.
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#7 PHOTOSNACK
ONE PHOTOGRAPHER A DAY
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#8 Something I Saw
one artwork, each week... until we're done.
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#9 BoldBrush Collector
Today's Finest Artists Delivered Daily to Your Inbox
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#10 #The100DayProject Newsletter
#The100DayProject is a free, global art project that takes place online. Every year, thousands of people all around the world commit to 100 days of creating. Anyone can participate (yes, that means you!).
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#11 Feature Shoot
Feature Shoot showcases the work of photographers who are transforming the medium through compelling, cutting-edge projects.
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#12 Alex Strohl
Hey, I'm Alex. I write about how photography changed my life.
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#13 Artelligence
A global perspective on the art market from a unique point of view—delivered to your inbox.
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#14 FlakPhoto Digest
A curated newsletter for photography people
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#15 Animation Obsessive
Exploring the best in animation from all around the world — part investigation, part treasure hunt.
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#16 The Great Women Artists
Celebrating all things women artists
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#17 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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#18 Slowpoke
Arts & Entertainment from illustrator Carson Ellis
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#19 Diagram
Generative Creativity
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#20 gamejobs.work’s weekly artist jobs
Weekly Game Artist Jobs in 2d, 3d, Concept Art, Environment Art, Character Art
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#21 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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#22 ART DELIVERY from The Jealous Curator
Contemporary art delivered daily to your inbox from Danielle Krysa, the founder of The Jealous Curator, and best-selling author of several books on art & creativity.
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#23 Animation Jobs Newsletter
Weekly Animation Jobs in 2D/3D, Illustration & Storyboard
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#24 Boletim Tatuí
Novidades da cena de publicações independentes. 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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#25 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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#26 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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#27 In the Flash
Adventures in the unseen world of photography.
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#28 Ceramics Now Weekly
An arts newsletter you'll love if you're into ceramics. The editor of Ceramics Now brings you the week's news and shares a curated selection of artists and exhibitions.
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#29 Artdey Africa
Community of African art lovers
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#30 Paint Here
Regular servings of inspiration for visual artists from the bestselling author of Dinotopia, Color & Light, and Imaginative Realism.
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#31 ARTISTS PAGES
I spend hours finding and curating the best art across the internet and in galleries every week so you can see it in seconds.
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#32 Julian Philosophy
Fine Art, made accessible
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#33 The SneakyArt Post
Secretly drawn art of the world, delivered to your inbox.
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#34 Thisispaper Weekly
What's meaningful in contemporary art, design and architecture, delivered to you every week.
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#35 Paper Arts Collective Newsletter
All about photographic art in print and the paper medium
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#36 Adam Woodworth Photography
Adam Woodworth is a landscape photographer originally from Kittery, Maine, and he now resides in Lubec, Maine. He has had a love of photography for over 25 years, and since 2008 he has focused on landscape photography.
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#37 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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#38 THESE THINGS NOW by Moorea Seal
Weekly exploration of an multidisciplinary artist and best selling author sharing their creative process and offering resources for the curious mind. Art, Musings + Resource for big feelers, deep thinkers, makers and tender humans.
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#39 Process by Wesley Verhoeve
"Process" is a weekly newsletter about photography and finding your creative voice, by a pro with a decade of experience.
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#40 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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#41 AI-power for digital ART
Art & AI technology to transform the way that people experience the world.
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#42 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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#43 Alessio "on-the-line"
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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#44 Play is the Opposite of Survival Mode
art & writing about learning to love this life, for you, by brit
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#45 Jake's Desk
Sharing the stuff that comes across my desk
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#46 Kaloh’s Newsletter
The Intersection of Art and Blockchain
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#47 Fake Love Letters
Every time you see a character in a movie read a newspaper... somebody, somewhere had to make that newspaper.
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#48 Rob Ives Workshop Notes
Newsletter about making stuff .
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#49 MLearning.ai Art
AI art solutions for the creative economy 🟠 State-Of-The-Art machine learning demos that are quick and easy to use 🔵 Your adventure with Generative AI starts right now.
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#50 The Accidental Expert
Stories of success, failure, lucky guesses, and digital art.
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#51 Introvert Drawing Club
Playful drawing sessions for everyone. 🌻 Weekly art prompts, tips, and illustration techniques from a kind, creative community.
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#52 Catherine Rayner 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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#53 Snughouls: A Cryptid Collection
Waiting with bated breath to adopt a snughoul of your own? Then this is the place for you! Subscribe to be the first to see new updates, ranging from progress reports to sneak peeks at future cryptid friends.
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#54 Michelle Allen Art
Creatively living.
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#55 The Intentional Artist
The Intentional Artist is a newsletter empowering artists and creators to cultivate purpose, vision, and intentional action in their creative journeys.
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#56 Creative Alchemy
Insights, inspiration, and healing for the inner artist. By author, poet, and creativity coach James McCrae (@wordsarevibrations)
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#57 Creativity As A Way Of Life Art Journal
The use of journaling as a tool in creative work; an exploration of the inner work underlying creative work.
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#58 The Little Brown Mushroom Newsletter
Photography and visual storytelling
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#59 Nerusletter
Finding a Rhythm
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#60 Earthling
musings on art, life and being human
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#61 MoMa Weekly
Art competitions. Creative resources. Wonderful things.
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#62 Sketch Away with Suhita Shirodkar
Sketching Tips and Online Sketching Sessions with Suhita
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#63 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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#64 Creatively Rooted
Creativity as a source for regenerating, reimagining, healing and thriving. Art, graphic newsletters, coloring pages, prompts and reflections from artist Jen Bloomer.
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#65 Petronella.Art Magazine
Weekly inspiration to get you excited to create more art. Featuring hand-embroidery, illustration, photography and writing by independent artist and author Elin Petronella
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#66 Anthony Morganti on Photography
A weekly newsletter where I offer my musings on photography and the photographic process that I developed over my 42 year career as a professional photographer.
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#67 The Silver Print Newsletter
Stay in the know with our monthly newsletter covering events, classes and workshops, prints from the darkroom, our film photograhy podcast and more!
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#68 Blood & Champagne
Link dumps and interviews related to architecture, art, and design.
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#69 Bits & Blobs
Artist and TV host Helen Dealtry's relaxed and, more often than not, flower filled space for creative inspirations, a peek into her practice and written thoughts. Paint along classes are in the works!
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#70 It's Good to Be Here
Be the artist in residence of your world. Tips, ideas, and inspiration from artist residencies everywhere, from artist and bestselling author Amy Stewart. Supporters get art tutorials and a deeper dive.
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#71 Catching Shower Flowers by Tess Guinery
Catching the clearer thoughts that mostly arrive in the shower and making art with them.
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#72 The Colour | Newsletter | Lab | Community
Foraged colour, found pigments and natural markings from Jason Logan the author of Make Ink.
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#73 Brunna’s Substack
Meu diário de ateliê, onde compartilho a rotina do meu processo criativo e o que me move. Mais em instagram.com/brunnamancuso
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#74 Collage Spamouflage
a.k.a. The Weekender - collage news & inspiration (every Friday)
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#75 The Gusset
Field research in the expanse between the tactile and the intangible; noticing yarn, light, line, things that want to be made, and the luminous joy of working with the materials at hand.
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#76 THE deEP STATE : The political artwork of Michael de Adder
This is the official Substack newsletter of award winning editorial cartoonist Michael de Adder. Here you will see de Adder's political cartoon strip called THE deEP STATE, his editorial cartoons and other writings.
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#77 Kristin Nicholas' Colorful Newsletter from the Farm
Writing about color, design, making, ceramics, gardening and life on a working sheep farm
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#78 An Artist's Life
sharing bits of my life as an artist
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#79 Owen Dennis's Infinite Train of Thought
Behind the scenes looks at the production process to create cartoons and the latest on Owen Dennis's animation, music, and other works.
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#80 AugustWren Art and News
Art, Teaching and Musings from artist Jennifer Orkin Lewis aka AugustWren
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#81 Christopher P Jones
As a writer on art history and culture, my aim is to help people to gain more from looking at art by delving deep into individual works and exploring the stories behind them.
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#82 Prologue
At least 5 weekly international contemporary art events you should know about and other musings.
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#83 Young Space
The best exhibitions and projects by emerging contemporary artists, plus artist opportunities and special features, curated by Kate Mothes.
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#84 Ralph Ammer
Illustrated inspiration on Drawing, Philosophy, and Design. *100% human — no AI*
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#85 Schmoe's Cosy Art Club
Subscribe for some weekly motivation, my latest news and all the past newsletters <3
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#86 Lindsay’s Substack
My personal Substack
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#87 INTERLOPER
Writing on photography.
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#88 Ink Vault
drawings from nightclubs and warzones
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#89 Nowhere Diary Newsletter
A niche newsletter about contemporary photography written by Kim Høltermand. Kim shares a unique look into the work and techniques of todays contemporary photographers, their personal stories and advice for aspiring photographers
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#90 The Habit of Art by Kelcey Ervick
An illustrated newsletter about the ups, downs, loop-de-loops, and life-changing power of making art and telling stories. From a writer who draws.
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#91 Crewdson Trail Log
Production notes, picture details, and daily inspirations
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#92 The Line Between
A very visual newsletter about life through the lens of making things. A peek behind the scenes, both in the art studio and in my head. About twice a month.
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#93 Words and Pictures by Pamela Leavey
Welcome to Words and Pictures. I am a Creative Writer and a Photographer. My posts are digital collages encompassing the world around me. I post Daily Affirmations, Quotes of The Day, Poetry, Personal Essays and Photo Essays to Inspire and Enlighten.
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#94 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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#95 slow motion multitasking
facts, drawings and poetry.
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#96 Honeypokes Newsletter
tattoos and art
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#97 Desde Mi Estudio
Procesos creativos, recomendaciones, novedades y mucha inspiración para CreaArte
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#98 Argonotlar Güncel Sanat Bülteni
Güncel sergileri ve sanat tartışmalarını bir arada sunan haftalık bülten.
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#99 Beautiful Eccentrics
Letters, observations and marginalia on contemporary art
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#100 Rosalie Haizlett Illustration
Paintings, stories & studio updates about the creative process and nature connection. I send out 1-2 emails per month, an art-filled letter from me to you!
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