/r/SpecArt

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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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    she used to pray here, by huleeb

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    2024/05/02
    11:29 UTC

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    The Focus Tombs, Oil on Canvas, Paul Delvaux, 1957.

    1 Comment
    2024/05/02
    10:29 UTC

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    Just another day in mushroom land

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    2024/05/01
    17:21 UTC

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    roaming shadows, by huleeb

    1 Comment
    2024/05/01
    12:42 UTC

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    Monarch's Guardian by Sj Ocean

    3 Comments
    2024/05/01
    10:06 UTC

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    toxic depths, by huleeb

    2 Comments
    2024/04/30
    12:30 UTC

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    DAY DREAMiNG by stupidgiant

    1 Comment
    2024/04/30
    03:21 UTC

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    DnD party victory celebration, art by me

    1 Comment
    2024/04/30
    01:56 UTC

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    Dream house in mushroomland

    1 Comment
    2024/04/29
    20:18 UTC

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    Valiant Heart by u/_cinnamon_rose

    1 Comment
    2024/04/29
    17:04 UTC

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    noble mist dweller, by huleeb

    2 Comments
    2024/04/29
    12:31 UTC

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    The Masque of the Red Death, Oil on Canvas, Manuel Orazi, 1893.

    2 Comments
    2024/04/29
    10:31 UTC

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    Small girl with a big gun, art by me

    3 Comments
    2024/04/29
    07:12 UTC

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    Artorias and The Death God

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    2024/04/29
    06:06 UTC

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    Downer [OC]

    1 Comment
    2024/04/28
    21:57 UTC

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    Chesme Battle in the Night, Oil on Canvas, Ivan Aivazovsky, 1848.

    2 Comments
    2024/04/28
    15:16 UTC

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    underground water passage, by huleeb

    1 Comment
    2024/04/28
    11:52 UTC

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    Giant gato, watercolor

    1 Comment
    2024/04/28
    08:41 UTC

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    Owl warrior, art by me

    1 Comment
    2024/04/28
    08:29 UTC

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    [OC] Mugen X Cornelius - Let's Go on an Adventure by Mangatellers

    2 Comments
    2024/04/27
    22:30 UTC

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    the swamp guardian, by huleeb

    1 Comment
    2024/04/27
    11:29 UTC

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    Encountering the remains of the old world by OP (Livresquare)

    1 Comment
    2024/04/27
    10:19 UTC

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    wind

    1 Comment
    2024/04/26
    18:22 UTC

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    Marlan: Foremost apprentice to Candlestone warrior-scholar Arasemis (visual+lore)

    4 Comments
    2024/04/26
    18:07 UTC

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    a drawing I made

    3 Comments
    2024/04/26
    15:33 UTC

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    Barren Dreams // OC

    1 Comment
    2024/04/26
    13:32 UTC

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