r/DigitalPainting vs r/drawing

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Digital painting critique room vs drawing community

r/DigitalPainting’s public description centers critique — posting art ready for constructive feedback and participating in the community. r/drawing describes itself as Reddit’s refrigerator door: marks on a substrate, technique, gear and artwork welcome.

In our directory, drawing is larger (about 5.8M, rank #143) than DigitalPainting (about 3.7M, rank #266). Activity samples show drawing posting far more often (~111 posts/day vs ~10). DigitalPainting’s sample mixes images with some text; drawing’s sample is image- and gallery-heavy with ink, graphite, digital, seeking-crit and showcase flairs.

Rule titles: DigitalPainting requires original artwork, a struggle comment within an hour, imgur/tumblr links, and bans photobashing, animations and name-in-title posts; drawing requires civility, credit, effort, drawing posts only, one post per day, and bans advertising and NSFW drawings. SubMouse already compares Art with drawing and learnart with Art; this pair is digital-painting critique versus general drawing.

Choose r/DigitalPainting when you want structured critique on digital paintings under its comment-within-an-hour rules.
Choose r/drawing to share drawings across ink, graphite and digital under its effort and anti-ad rules.
Both sit outside the current Top 100 cut. art-vs-drawing and learnart-vs-art are separate curated pages.

Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.

r/DigitalPainting

Digital Painting

Welcome! The purpose of r/DigitalPainting is to to critique art, to receive critique and grow as artists. Be prepared to receive constructive critique on your art. Be active and participate in the conversations, give cr…

Members: 3.7M
7-day growth: +342
Posts/day: 9.7
Directory rank: #266
Created: Oct 6, 2011
Submissions: Text or links

Sample mix: images 52%, text posts 20%, galleries 16%

Topics: Art, Digital Art, Painting

Rule titles (short names we collected)

Only original artwork
You have to leave a comment about what you struggled with, within one hour of posting.
All art must be linked from imgur or tumblr.
Self-posts may include links to software.
Links to progress videos are only allowed if they're not on the submitted page.
Photobashing is not allowed.
Self-promotional top comments are not allowed.
Submissions with the artist name in the title will be removed.
Animations are not allowed.
One post per day.
No artwork older than a year
AI "art" is not allowed.

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r/drawing

r/drawing: reddit's refrigerator door

Drawing is the act of making marks on a substrate by moving something across it. Discussion, technique, gear, and all kinds of artwork are welcome. Make yourself at home!

Members: 5.8M
7-day growth: +2K
Posts/day: 110.9
Directory rank: #143
Created: Mar 30, 2009
Submissions: Text or links

Sample mix: images 64%, galleries 34%, text posts 2%

Topics: Drawing

Rule titles (short names we collected)

Be respectful and civil.
No advertising of any kind.
Credit must be given.
No reposts.
Submissions must demonstrate effort.
Drawing posts only.
One post per day.
This is not a support subreddit.
Use existing resources.
Critiques must be constructive.
No "is this good for x" posts or "what style is this" posts.
100 karma is required to POST.

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Supported differences

Aspect	r/DigitalPainting	r/drawing
Public focus (from each community’s public description)	Welcome! The purpose of r/DigitalPainting is to to critique art, to receive critique and grow as artists. Be prepared to receive constructive critique on your art. Be active and participate in the conversations, give cr…	Drawing is the act of making marks on a substrate by moving something across it. Discussion, technique, gear, and all kinds of artwork are welcome. Make yourself at home!
Size r/drawing is larger in our directory (about 1.6×).	3.7M members	5.8M members
Posting activity (our sample)	9.7/day	110.9/day
Common post types in our sample	images 52%, text posts 20%, galleries 16%	images 64%, galleries 34%, text posts 2%
Topic tags on SubMouse	Art, Digital Art, Painting	Drawing
Selected rule titles (short names we collected)	Only original artwork; You have to leave a comment about what you struggled with, within one hour of posting.; All art must be linked from imgur or tumblr.; Self-posts may include links to software.; Links to progress videos are only allowed if they're not on the submitted page.	Be respectful and civil.; No advertising of any kind.; Credit must be given.; No reposts.; Submissions must demonstrate effort.

Rules and posting patterns we can verify

DigitalPainting short titles include: only original artwork; leave a comment about what you struggled with within one hour; art linked from imgur or tumblr; self-posts may include software links; progress-video limits; photobashing not allowed; no self-promotional top comments; no artist name in the title; no animations; one post per day.

drawing: be respectful and civil; no advertising; credit must be given; no reposts; NSFW drawings not allowed; submissions must demonstrate effort; drawing posts only; one post per day; not a support subreddit; use existing resources. Our sample flairs include ink, graphite, digital and seeking crit.

Where this comparison comes from

Public descriptions and member counts from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Short rule titles and activity samples SubMouse collected. Short titles only. Related curated pages: art-vs-drawing, learnart-vs-art.

Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-02 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-10-26. Posts/day and post-type mixes appear when we have an activity sample. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order — communities outside the current Top 100 open in the info tool instead of a full community page.