/r/SpecArt
SF, fantasy, and post-apocalypse visual arts.
Explore the visual aspects of imagined worlds. All speculative visual arts are welcome, from space vistas to fantasy landscapes to ruined cities to psychedelic paintings to dreaded monsters to f'ing dinosaurs!
SF, fantasy, post-apocalypse, and other genre visual arts
Explore the visual aspects of imagined worlds. All speculative visual arts are welcome, from space vistas to fantasy landscapes to ruined cities to psychedelic paintings to dreaded monsters to f'ing dinosaurs!
Painting, drawing, illustration, computer art, sculpture, manipulated photography, models, and more are all welcome. Inspiring, awesome, and speculative is the name of the game.
Posting Guidelines
Reposts are allowed, but only if the original post is at least 3 months old, and not currently in the top 50 submissions of all time.
Links to the original source, deviant art, reddit's upload feature, or imgur are preferred (in that order).
Links to articles/blogs discussing Speculative Art are also welcome, as are self posts.
You may post your own work, but it must be tagged [OC] and you may not otherwise call out that it is your work in the title or otherwise fish for upvotes.
Please do not post links to your own blog hosting other artists' work unless there is some original content there not found elsewhere on the internet that does not constitute copyright violation.
Please add the artist's name to your post title when available.
If you don't know the name of the artist you can use one of the following websites to find it:
Google: Reverse Image Search (camera icon)
Tineye.com: Reverse Image Search
Of course the name of the artist isn't always available when finding cool images on the web so please add the artists names in comments if missing from someone elses post.
NSFW images must be tagged. r/UpvotedBecauseGirl-worthy content will be removed at mods' discretion.
Sample Artists
The artists responsible for the images from left to right on the r/SpecArt header are:
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our ongoing 9 year journey, by huleeb
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Boxcutter-ink and acrylic painting
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A Dungeon Corridor I Drew For Perspective Practice (Me)
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cold plunge, by huleeb
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Character I designed
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Invader from above, rate it.
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I drew this as a response to learning of my brother's untimely passing. Titled "I dreamed a Life"
Four years ago I got news that my brother Bobby had passed away in Belgium. He had issues with mental health which resulted in alcohol addiction issues. After being incommunicado for 8 months previously, after a steady deterioration in behaviour , I got news that he was found dead in his apartment. He had essentially melted into the floorboards. We could not get a cause of death.
The day before having it confirmed (on my birthday) and before I would tell my mother, she, not knowing any of this, had a dream in which he had come to her and told her he was very happy he was going to a new house, that was "very nice, but very far away, and that the real estate agent was coming to take him", and that she must not worry. He then turned around and walked into the house, and the dream ended. She mentioned how happy he looked. She seemed bemused. I asked her to draw the house (rotunda at right of image) The next morning I had to tell her that her first son had passed.
The vine-like growth within the skull, represents the battle with his addictions, the mind virus. The two ball like structures to the left of the head are slime mould, that can grow during decomposition.
Teeth are teeth
The waterfalls harken back to Victoria Falls in Zambia where I was born and Iguacu falls in Brazil, which we both were at together during somewhat happier times. He loved waterfalls.
The large figures in the background are a "mother and child" statue found in Malawi where we grew up, one was in the room he was found in
The dark clouds, I call the Dreamweaver; A weaver of the narratives that we believe our lives are about, coming to dispel the dream narrative. More on this one later 'praps..👀
I did a digital sketch, in order to process all this at the time, but it only really felt right to do it justice now in white chalk, on black paper, in a very iterative and intuitive process different to what I have worked in for a while now. It felt cathartic
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Frosty
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Play With Me, My oil painting
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GRAVEROCK by Zen Brazen
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Diamond Soul II, by The Mind Blossom
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walking the fishes, by huleeb
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Outlaw Paul, by The Mind Blossom
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Begun, the Gnome War has, me, digital, 2024
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wanderer in the fractal
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the incident at the factory, by huleeb
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Early page drop from Chp 5 of "INTO THIS PLANET この惑星へ"
Full chapters here:
https://globalcomix.com/c/into-this-planet-
If you check it out, let me know your thoughts! :)
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a drawing I made, chasing the high
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a drawing I made, chasing the high
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Continue?
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Atrakhmar, City of the Hundred Clans (7 x 10, Pen and Watercolor, by Me)
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Queen Zudith Stands Trial, by The Mind Blossom
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Nocturne, by The Mind Blossom
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My loxodon art, sketch and final
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water under the bridge, by huleeb
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Character I designed, sketch and final
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