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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

  1. 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.

  2. 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:

    Jorik Dozy

    Radoslav Zilinsky

    Gloria Scholik

    Gary Tonge

    H.R. Giger

    Chris Achilleos

    Alex Grey

    T.J. Frame

    Andrew Hou

    Josh Grafton


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    Snake design I drew recently for someone who recently lost one of their snakes

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    2025/01/16
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    SPACE BASE Beta 7 / Painting by Gary Wray (me) 2010

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    LOST CIVILIZATION / Painting by Gary Wray (me) 2017

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    Nocturnus, by The Mind Blossom

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    don't let them carry your light, by huleeb

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    Skybreaker by Moises

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    'OverDrive' (A digital collage) by me.

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    Discovering ourselves [art made by me]

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    came right out, by huleeb

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    a drawing I made titled high as a kite

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    Fury Road fanart I just finished! [oc]

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    winter shades, by huleeb

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    Yo, its Frog Manuel, by Charles Beach (me!)

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    Escaping the dungeon [Artwork made by me]

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    SMONK THE DANK, by me, Charles Beach

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    odd one out, by huleeb

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    FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE FUTURE / Comic Panel by Gary Wray (me) 1987

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    2can (2024)

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    5 years, by huleeb

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    a drawing I made

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    [Art] This final Frostmaiden stage drawing is one I’ve been looking forward to showing

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    Piter Pitersky - Mindness (2024)

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    A Stroll Through The Rain ♡

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    Seated Figure, Oil on Canvas, Francis Bacon, 1960.

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    where they last saw her, by huleeb

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    Caravan, Justin/me, Gouache, 2025

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    In The Future, Some Things Never Change / Comic Panel by Gary Wray (me) 1987

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    Phantom, by The Mind Blossom

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