About r/learnart
In its own words:
LearnArt is a free open art learning resource built on the principles of free education and art access to all. Come check us out for feedback, guidance, and discussion!
Community guide
r/learnart (#631, about 1.7 million subscribers) is oriented around: LearnArt is a free open art learning resource built on the principles of free education and art access to all. Come check us out for feedback, guidance, and discussion! Recent activity samples show 13 posts/day in recent samples (~41% image, ~27% text, ~26% gallery). Public rules we collected include: Remember the person; Be civil.; Give constructive feedback, including examples; Post titles should include descriptions of the art or questions, not personal details; Include images.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent fandoms or general off-topic dumps. Self-promotion and advertising are tightly limited—read those rules before linking your own channel, shop, or site. Civility and anti-harassment rules are explicit; personal attacks get you removed regardless of how right you think you are.
How it differs from lookalikes
The length of the public rule list is itself a signal: skim all of them once before assuming defaults from similar communities.
Practical pointers
Read the current sidebar/rules on Reddit before posting; collected rules can lag. Avoid clickbait titles; say what the post actually is. Common flairs in samples include: Digital, Question, Drawing, Painting.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Nov 8, 2010, which makes it 15 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 223 subscribers (+0.01%). It sits just behind r/JoeRogan (#630) and ahead of r/ShittyLifeProTips (#632) in our ranking.
What sets r/learnart apart
Compared with other large communities, r/learnart leans heavily on images (41% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 21%). r/learnart is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 3.6 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 13.1.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/learnart went up from 1,680,264 to 1,681,958 subscribers (+1.7K, +0.10%). That is about 39 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/learnart talks about
Across 102 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “drawing”, “looking”, “feedback”, “art” and “painting”. Other frequent themes are improve, advice, critique, draw, help and tips. Recurring phrases include “gesture drawing”, “quick figure”, “figure study” and “geometric method”. By format, 41% are images, 27% are text posts and 26% are galleries.
Popular post flairs: Digital (28), Question (17), Drawing (12), Painting (6), Traditional (5), Tutorial (4).
Activity and best time to post
r/learnart gets about 13 new posts a day. The public archive holds 182,212 posts and 653,981 comments in total, about 3.6 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Wednesday (20 posts) and the quietest was Thursday (11). Posting peaks around 16:00 UTC and is lowest around 02:00 UTC.
Rules of r/learnart
The moderators of r/learnart list 10 rules. In short:
- Remember the person
- Be civil.
- Give constructive feedback, including examples
- Post titles should include descriptions of the art or questions, not personal details
- Include images
- Group multiple drawings into one post
- Keep it on-topic.
- Unhelpful tutorials will be removed.
- No Spam.
- NSFW tag
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/learnart and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/learnart have?
r/learnart has 1,681,958 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #631 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 1,694 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/learnart?
r/learnart was created on Nov 8, 2010, so it has been around for 15 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jan 28, 2011.
How active is r/learnart?
Moderately: r/learnart gets about 13 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 182,212 posts and 653,981 comments. In a sample of 102 recent posts we counted 80 different authors.
When is r/learnart most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Wednesday and the quietest Thursday, and most posts arrive around 16:00 UTC, with the fewest around 02:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/learnart about?
The community describes itself as: “LearnArt is a free open art learning resource built on the principles of free education and art access to all. Come check us out for feedback, guidance, and discussion!” Recent post titles often mention drawing, looking, feedback, art and painting. Most posts are images (41%).
Is r/learnart safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/learnart as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/learnart?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/learnart accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 10 posted rules, starting with: “Remember the person”; “Be civil.”; “Give constructive feedback, including examples”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/learnart?
Communities with similar topics include r/Art (22.6M), r/PixelArt (2.7M), r/learntodraw (3.2M), r/selfimprovement (2.8M) and r/hmmm (2.1M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/learnart.