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 Akinze’s Art
A chronicle of the paintings of the expressionist artist commonly known as Akinze.
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#2 TORVA by CANNOPY
We're moving to Arts Near You: Toronto!
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#3 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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#4 #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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#5 FASO Collector
Today's Finest Artists Delivered Daily to Your Inbox
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#6 The Rose Period
The special, unusual, and unexpected stories of the art world that you (and I) should know about.
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#7 Feature Shoot
Feature Shoot showcases the work of photographers who are transforming the medium through compelling, cutting-edge projects.
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#8 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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#9 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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#10 gamejobs.work’s weekly artist jobs
Weekly Game Artist Jobs in 2d, 3d, Concept Art, Environment Art, Character Art
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#11 Alex Strohl
Hey, I'm Alex. I explore how creatives can build both meaningful & sustainable careers in photography.
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#12 Animation Jobs Newsletter
Weekly Animation Jobs in 2D/3D, Illustration & Storyboard
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#13 Art History Rambles
A newsletter for those who are curious about art history and love a good chat!
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#14 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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#15 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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#16 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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#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 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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#19 Diagram
Generative Creativity
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#20 ARTSTACK
The official hub for artist on Substack.
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#21 Street Photography
A discussion about street photography illustrated with my street photos
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#22 Julian de Medeiros
Critique of ideology, psychoanalysis & Žižekian/Hegelian philosophy
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#23 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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#24 there_y0u_are
art + design briefs by talia mayden
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#25 Being Nobody
Meditations on Exiting the Matrix, Being an Artist, and Awakening to Your Nature
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#26 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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#27 Watercolour Workout
Weekly watercolour lesson to make progress with 10 minutes of practice.
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#28 Artdey Africa
Community of African art lovers
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#29 DEPTH CREATIVITY
Explore the "deep within" through expressive art and writing with psychotherapist and expressive arts educator Shelley Klammer.
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#30 Women Of Illustration
Helping creatives get their art seen and paid a livable wage.
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#31 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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#32 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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#33 Alphachanneling
Profane and profound- this is the home of Alphachanneling's art: bold, intimate, and unapologetic.
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#34 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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#35 Paper Arts Collective Newsletter
All about photographic art in print and the paper medium
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#36 Play is the Opposite of Survival Mode
On learning to love this life
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#37 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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#38 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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#39 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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#40 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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#41 Doublethink
Illustrated Ideas
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#42 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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#43 The Ink Pad
Illustrating life and telling stories
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#44 Paper Films
Handmade films about art and life.
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#45 Arthur Miller
escrevo, falo e gravo (não nessa ordem)
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#46 AI-power for digital ART
Stop watching. Start creating. Get paid
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#47 Jeff Dillon Fine Art
New paintings, studio notes, and thoughts on art from Canadian painter Jeff Dillon
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#48 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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#49 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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#50 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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#51 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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#52 Sketch Away with Suhita Shirodkar
Sketching Tips and Online Sketching Sessions with Suhita
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#53 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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#54 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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#55 Little Truths
Artist. Writer. Seeker. Picture taker. Feeler of feelings. Dispatches from Little Truths Studio and Paint Water Farm.
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#56 The Wahlflower
Missives from the studio of author & illustrator Phoebe Wahl
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#57 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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#58 The Colour | Newsletter | Lab | Community
Foraged colour, found pigments and natural markings from Jason Logan the author of Make Ink.
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#59 Subjectively Objective
Artist Features, Photobook Reviews, Interviews with Artists & Insights Into The Photobook Making Process
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#60 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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#61 Earthling
musings on art, life and being human
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#62 Michelle Allen Art
Creatively living.
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#63 MoMa Weekly
Art competitions. Creative resources. Wonderful things.
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#64 Ideas Visuales 💡+✏️
Las mejores ideas de los libros que me han marcado, sintetizadas en formato visual.
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#65 Notes on Illustration
Thoughts, Insights, and Lessons on the Art, History, and Practice of Illustration | Written by Giuseppe Castellano
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#66 Drawing the Natural World
Sharpen your pencil. Grab a pen. Explore botanicals, wild creatures, and insects as you draw along with me in graphite, ink, or colored pencil. (I hope you also like folklore and history!) Join anytime.
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#67 James Shedden
Sharing thoughts and things I've made
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#68 An Artist's Life
sharing bits of my life as an artist
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#69 Art Quest
Art Quest turned the creative journey into a series of quests. In 2026 we will guide you on a quest to write a picture-book and build an illustration portfolio. Hosted by Jen Gubicza and Adam Ming
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#70 stitched in color
quilts, patchwork, patterns + sew-alongs
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#71 Ink Vault
drawings from nightclubs and warzones
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#72 Nowhere Diary Newsletter
A niche newsletter about contemporary photography
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#73 Nerusletter
Finding a Rhythm
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#74 HALMAIL
Comics, writing, updates & and art supply recommendations from illustwriter Hallie Bateman.
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#75 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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#76 Crewdson Trail Log
Production notes, picture details, and daily inspirations
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#77 club coverjunkie
discover sparkling creativity through magazine covers > art direction > top 10's > rising artists > news > design insights > access to collection creative covers
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#78 Erika Lee Sears
I am an oil painter, a mother, and high five champion. I make art everyday. I started this journey because of the birth of my son and I wanted to stay creative on a daily basis. These are my moments of ordinary and extraordinary.
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#79 Create! Magazine
Create! Magazine, an independent art publication since 2016, shares inspiring contemporary art, personal essays, and creative business insights. By Ekaterina Popova.
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#80 Art
Artwork
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#81 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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#82 Because People Matter by Pie Aerts
Trying to make sense of the world through taking photographs, a newsletter sharing the the struggles, the victories, the doubt and the lessons learned of a life as a photographer
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#83 Love Lucy
A weekly newsletter sharing my undying love for photography, creativity and how we share that online and beyond.
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#84 Art History Explained with Christopher P Jones
As a writer on art history and culture, I aim to enrich the way you experience art — by delving into the lives of artists, unpicking the stories behind individual works, and exploring the cultural and historical threads that connect them.
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#85 Desde Mi Estudio
Procesos creativos, recomendaciones, novedades y mucha inspiración para CreaArte
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#86 The Line Between
A visual newsletter about life through the lens of making things. Peek behind the scenes—animation, essays, NYC—about twice a month.
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#87 GOLD DUST
Scattered moments of art, life, and adornment by Amanda Hunt
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#88 Collage Spamouflage
a.k.a. The Weekender - collage news & inspiration (every Friday)
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#89 Chris Riddell
I am an author, illustrator and political cartoonist.
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#90 Journal Rash
This is a blog-journal-cave-ratstudio-birdnest-newsletter
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#91 Puxadinho do Luri 🪴
A vida por dentro do processo criativo.
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#92 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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#93 Field Notes
Thoughts on photography and the creative process. A behind-the-scenes including new work, projects, gear, experiments, inspirations and lessons learned.
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#94 Cult of Create ✹ Tabby Booth
Artist, illustrator & curator Tabby Booth - Living the creative life via weekly art prompts, studio stories & visual inspiration to feed your head.
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#95 Lounge Like A Peacock
Hang out Peacock & Fig style and follow along with my process, new artwork and designs, and finding your own creative inspiration.
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#96 Ralph Ammer
Illustrated inspiration on Drawing, Philosophy, and Design. *100% human — no AI*
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#97 INTERLOPER
Writing on photography.
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#98 From the Desk of Madison Moore
Celebrating the magic of (everyday) making
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#99 THE REAL MURPHY
Architecture, art, design, photography, and the occasional interesting distraction.
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#100 Follansbee's Substack
Carved oak furniture, chairmaking & more
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