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Colored Pencils. We embrace ALL colored pencils - dry, wet (watercolor), pastel, and tinted graphite pencils! Founded 2013 · 83.1K members

82.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 13.2K upvotes, which works out to 161 per 1,000 members.

161peak upvotes per 1,000 members
82.1Kmembers
13.2Kbest post
526most comments
401posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

66% 21%
Image 66% Gallery 21% Link 4% Text 4% Question 3% Video 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Original Art 114 Discussion / Advice 25 Coloring 21 Supplies / Materials 17 Work in Progress 10 Experiment 4 Commissioned Piece 2

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Is this good enough for a gift?

↑ 13.2K 💬 526 gallery 2024

Superposition 2.0, Senescence, Coloured Pencil, Copic Marker, Multi liner, Ink, 2024

↑ 12.8K 💬 197 gallery 2024

Idk if this - a coloring book - is okay to post here but I am so proud and I don't know who else to turn to

↑ 11.2K 💬 138 image 2024

I drew my wife’s eye.

↑ 10.7K 💬 186 image 2025

Took me almost two months to finish but I’m kinda proud of the outcome 🫀

↑ 8.8K 💬 418 image 2024

In honor of my birthday this month…

↑ 7.7K 💬 95 image 2025

Just started drawing at 65 years old.

↑ 7.1K 💬 101 image 2026

Christmas gift for my mom. I’m so excited to give it to her! She loves sullen but eccentric Victorian children haha

↑ 6.9K 💬 122 image 2024

The Wrong One, Colored Pencils on Paper, Jamie Mork, 2013.

↑ 6.6K 💬 62 image 2025

I don’t think I can save this

↑ 6.6K 💬 388 image 2024

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/ColoredPencils, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/ColoredPencils?
r/ColoredPencils ("Colored Pencils") describes itself this way: We embrace ALL colored pencils - dry, wet (watercolor), pastel, and tinted graphite pencils. It was founded in 2013 and has 83.1K members.
How many members does r/ColoredPencils have?
r/ColoredPencils has about 82.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 401 of its posts; the biggest reached 13.2K upvotes, which is 161 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/ColoredPencils?
"Is this good enough for a gift?" reached 13.2K upvotes and 526 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/ColoredPencils.
What subreddits are similar to r/ColoredPencils?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/ColoredPencils?
Of the posts we hold, 66% are image posts and 21% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/ColoredPencils?
Across 401 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 22:00 UTC (2.8K avg upvotes), Saturday at 02:00 UTC (2.6K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 08:00 UTC (2.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/ColoredPencils?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/ColoredPencils has 4.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 38 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/ColoredPencils, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.