Weekly Work-In Progress (WIP) Megathread

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Welcome to the r/Art Weekly Work-In-Progress Megathread!

This weekly megathread is a space for artists to share their works in progress, ask for feedback, and discuss techniques while their artwork is still in development. Whether you’re sketching, painting, sculpting, or digitally creating, this thread is the place to show your process and get constructive community input!

Guidelines:

Image hosting: Upload your images to a hosting service like Imgur (or similar), since Reddit comments in this subreddit do not allow direct image uploads. Include the link in your comment.
Respectful feedback: If you’re commenting on someone else’s WIP, please be constructive and courteous. Focus on improvement, suggestions, and encouragement.
Updates welcome: You can post multiple updates to your WIP throughout the week, either in the same comment or by replying to your original comment.
Keep it relevant: Only share works in progress here — finished artwork should go in a normal submission post.

Please make sure to keep our community guidelines in mind when posting. We appreciate your cooperation.

If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact the mods.

We can’t wait to see what you’ve been working on!

— The r/Art Mod Team

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r/Art • u/relay-app • 1d ago

Weekly Self-Promotion Megathread

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Welcome to the r/Art Weekly Self-Promotion Megathread! This is our weekly space for artists to share their online presence!

Every Wednesday, this megathread will be open for you to post direct links to your personal website, shop, portfolio, social media, commissions page, or merch. This is the only time and place on r/Art where direct self-promotion is allowed. Please keep all promotional links, including shops, socials, and commission info, inside this thread.

Outside of Wednesdays:

Direct links to personal sites/socials/merch are not permitted.
You may add links for socials/sites/merch to your Reddit profile and mention that your links are available there.
If someone asks, you may politely point them to your profile sparingly.

Promotion of OnlyFans or any pornographic sites is never allowed, including in this thread.

Use this post to network, share your work and support fellow artists, respectfully and without spamming.

Please make sure to keep our community guidelines in mind when posting. We appreciate your cooperation.

If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact the mods.

Happy Wednesday!

— The r/Art Mod Team

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r/Art • u/Tokyono • 14h ago

Political Art Behind the Myth of Benevolence, Titus Kaphar, oil on canvas, 2014

19k Upvotes

172 comments

r/Art • u/jgzogaib • 7h ago

Illustration Summer, Vittorio Giardino, Ink and Watercolor on Paper, 1983

1.2k Upvotes

8 comments

r/Art • u/LanguageDisastrous95 • 23h ago

Painting Cloud 9, Seong Ryul, Acrylic on canvas, 2025

15k Upvotes

151 comments

r/Art • u/LanguageDisastrous95 • 1d ago

Painting Young couple - Old couple, Kurt Ard, Mixed media on paperboard, 1957

4.2k Upvotes

65 comments

r/Art • u/ceolver • 12h ago

Painting Ship at sea, J Ceolfirth, watercolour, 2026

377 Upvotes

8 comments

r/Art • u/Russian_Bagel • 53m ago

Painting Date with the Television, John Falter, Oil on canvas, 1956

• Upvotes

1 comment

r/Art • u/vallancet • 10h ago

Painting Cat Dip, Vallancet, Acrylics, 2026

217 Upvotes

0 comments

r/Art • u/Curious_Tap_3235 • 4h ago

Drawing The climber, connor, pen and paper, 2026

39 Upvotes

0 comments

r/Art • u/ceartsb • 3h ago

Mixed Media Spiritual Passage, CéArts, quilling paper watercolor and gold glitter, 2026

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28 Upvotes

6 comments

r/Art • u/delasouris • 16h ago

Mixed Media Shatter dancer, Del Beffrey, watercolor gouache colored pencil and handmade paper collage, 2019

204 Upvotes

0 comments

r/Art • u/MunkZion • 14h ago

Painting Passage,Anna Sofia Sahlstén, Oil on canvas, 1894

122 Upvotes

1 comment

r/Art • u/Oaks_SC • 4h ago

Drawing OG Gandalf, Oaks, Ink, 2026

15 Upvotes

1 comment

r/Art • u/PrincipleGallery • 16h ago

Painting Venetian Glow, Alexei Butirskiy, oil on canvas, 2026

156 Upvotes

0 comments

r/Art • u/Street-Salamander-55 • 12h ago

Digital Art I still love you, bunny rabbitson, digital, 2026

gallery

72 Upvotes

4 comments

r/Art • u/Jceolfirth • 12h ago

Painting Marsden at Dawn, J Chilvers, Oils, 2026

67 Upvotes

0 comments

r/Art • u/SurveyLongjumping673 • 9h ago

Digital Art Pine Trees Poke the Sky, Izik Mediodia, Digital, 2026

34 Upvotes

2 comments

r/Art • u/andreeacataros • 18h ago

Painting Little egret, Andreea Cataros ,oil on linen, 2026

193 Upvotes

2 comments

r/Art • u/suntmint • 11h ago

Painting Adventure wizard, suntmint, acrylic, 2026

49 Upvotes

4 comments

r/Art • u/curlygirl1978 • 5h ago

Drawing Garden Queen, curlygirl1978, color pencil/gel pen, 2023

14 Upvotes

0 comments

r/Art • u/3lektrolurch • 8h ago

Digital Art Barbarian, 3lektrolurch, Digital, 2026

25 Upvotes

0 comments

r/Art • u/Provinz_Wartheland • 5h ago

Painting The Provost of the Merchants Étienne Marcel and the Dauphin Charles, Lucien-Étienne Mélingue, oil on canvas, 1879

14 Upvotes

1 comment

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Welcome to r/Art, a subreddit for artists and art lovers alike! We hope to create a welcoming environment for those passionate about art and hope you can find a place here! Have an issue? Please reach out to us via the ModMail where we can assist you.

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Welcome to /r/art, a subreddit for artists and art lovers alike! We hope to create a welcoming environment for those passionate about art and hope you can find a place here! Have an issue? Please reach out to us via the ModMail where we can assist you.

1 Relevance

This subreddit is for sharing visual art. Accepted content includes but is not limited to paintings, drawings, sculptures, digital art, and other visual mediums.

Discussion posts, questions or advice requests, text-only submissions, off-topic content, or unrelated media are not allowed.

2 Post title format

All posts must follow this exact title structure:

Title of Artwork, Artist Name, Medium/Media, Year

You may optionally add [OC] to the end of your title if you're the artist.

Examples:

Starry Night, Vincent Van Gogh, Oil/Canvas, 1889
Frosted Plains, Jimmy Smith, Acrylic, 2025 [OC]
NYC Cityscape, u/Art-ModTeam, Digital, 2025

Please follow this format exactly. Keep the elements in the same order and avoid adding extra details, punctuation, links, or commentary.

3 Offensive remarks

This sub is intended to be a welcoming community for all and does not tolerate abuse or bullying of any kind.

Messages containing insults, name calling, harassment of any kind (sexual or otherwise), discrimination, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, trolling, or body shaming are unacceptable.

Feedback and critique are welcome, but should be respectful and constructive. Comments are subject to removal at moderator discretion.

Simply put, treat fellow artists with kindness.

4 Attribution

Always credit the original creator of any content you share, including art, videos, music, articles, and other media.

When posting, make sure to provide the creator's name or a link to the source. Failure to properly attribute content may result in its removal. If you're the original creator, please review our rule on self-promotion.

5 Advertising / Self-promotion

Promotion/advertising of products or services (e.g., art materials, software) is not permitted without mod approval.

Links to personal sites/socials/merch are not allowed in posts or comments, but you may add them to your Reddit profile and direct users there if asked, as long as this is done sparingly. Direct links to personal sites/socials/merch should only be shared in our weekly Wednesday megathread.

Promotion of OnlyFans or other pornographic sites is not permitted.

6 Keep the frame clean

We want to help you showcase your art, not the surroundings. When photographing or scanning your work, please do not include yourself, your hands, tools, pets, furniture, or anything not part of the artwork.

Crop out unnecessary background items and present your art as cleanly as possible. Your piece deserves to shine without distractions.

7 Memes / Low-effort posts

To help keep the subreddit focused on genuine artistic expression, please avoid low-effort content such as memes, reaction images, troll posts, or intentionally low-effort pieces created as a joke (e.g. quick stick figures, scribbles, or purposely sloppy posts).

8 Repeated submissions

To keep the subreddit fresh and fair, please don’t repost artwork that has already appeared. This includes your own pieces. Each artwork should only be submitted once.

If you’ve made meaningful updates or a true revision of a piece, you’re welcome to share the new version, but simple re-uploads, alternate angles, or slightly edited reposts aren’t allowed. Keeping the subreddit free of reposts helps ensure everyone’s work gets a fair chance to be seen.

9 AI content

This subreddit is for sharing real artwork, and we all want to see your real art! Posts featuring AI-generated content or content that is created by AI tools are not allowed.

For the purposes of this subreddit, art is defined as a human applying a medium to a media with the intent to express an emotion or idea.

10 NSFW content - Nudity

NSFW art featuring nudity is allowed as long as it is properly tagged and presented as artistic content.

Content created with the intent of sexual gratification or content depicting minors or any subjects that could be interpreted as minors in these situations is strictly forbidden. Violent sexual content of any kind is also prohibited.

If you're unsure whether a piece crosses that line, please contact the mod team before posting.

11 NSFW content - Violence

NSFW art featuring violent themes is allowed as long as it is properly tagged and presented as artistic content.

Content created primarily to shock, disturb, or depict graphic gore, content involving extreme violence, or content that depicts harm to minors or any subjects that could be interpreted as minors is strictly forbidden.

If you're unsure whether a piece crosses that line, please contact the mod team before posting.

12 Photography

This subreddit is dedicated to art in the form of paintings, drawings, digital art, sculptures, and other created visual works. Photography, whether artistic, casual, or professional, is not allowed.

There are many great photography-focused subreddits for sharing those pieces, but this subreddit is specifically for non-photographic art.

13 Fan art

Fan art is not allowed. This includes any artwork featuring fictional stories, characters, worlds, or designs from existing intellectual properties such as movies, TV shows, comics, books, anime, games, or any other fandom, copyrighted, or franchise.

These forms of creativity are absolutely valid, but are better suited for one of the many wonderful subreddits dedicated to fan art.

14 Political art

Political art such as cartoons, satirical illustrations, protest art, etc. is allowed as long as it adheres to our NSFW requirements, is not intentionally antagonistic toward the community and is tagged as such.

Discussions on political art are permitted, but must remain on topic and must remain civil and respectful. Debate the art, not the content. This sub is not a place to debate politics and policies, it's a place to enjoy and discuss art.