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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! Founded 2009 · 5.8M members

5.8M members. The best post we have captured here reached 63.7K upvotes, which works out to 11 per 1,000 members.

11peak upvotes per 1,000 members
5.8Mmembers
63.7Kbest post
3.1Kmost comments
430posts 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.

67% 31%
Image 67% Gallery 31% Video 1% Text 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.

ink 80 graphite 68 digital 67 seeking crit 39 character 36 showcase 24 from a photo 23 question 16 charcoal 12 comic 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

White charcoal

↑ 63.7K 💬 612 image 2024

Waiting for pizza, swipe for reference

↑ 55.2K 💬 297 gallery 2025

I broke my neck and was paralyzed in Dec. 2010. Here is a photo of the first drawing I did in rehab, with assistance from my recreational therapist A…

↑ 38.2K 💬 633 image 2018

My father drew this in 1974 after an acid trip. Wish he would still draw.

↑ 37.6K 💬 722 image 2025

My barber chair drawing just won 1st place in a realism contest!

↑ 34K 💬 393 gallery 2025

Art teacher here. Had my 7/8yo students create monsters that were then “adopted” by local college artists and professors to be reimagined. Goal was t…

↑ 33.4K 💬 447 image 2019

Probably the most time I have ever invested into a pencil drawing. Titled 'Guilt'

↑ 31.9K 💬 469 image 2018

One of my favorite drawings

↑ 29.3K 💬 322 image 2024

I was offered $800 to sell this sketchbook. is it worth giving it? help pls

↑ 28.9K 💬 3.1K gallery 2025

A drawing I made while my gf was cooking

↑ 28.8K 💬 335 image 2025

Communities its size

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

r/drawing, in numbers

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

What is r/drawing?
r/drawing ("r/drawing: reddit's refrigerator door") describes itself this way: 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. It was founded in 2009 and has 5.8M members.
How many members does r/drawing have?
r/drawing has about 5.8M members. ViralHunt has tracked 430 of its posts; the biggest reached 63.7K upvotes, which is 11 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/drawing?
"White charcoal" reached 63.7K upvotes and 612 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/drawing.
What subreddits are similar to r/drawing?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/interesting, r/JustGuysBeingDudes, r/antiwork, r/urbanexploration, r/youseeingthisshit, r/AccidentalRenaissance.
What kind of posts do best on r/drawing?
Of the posts we hold, 67% are image posts and 31% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/drawing?
Across 430 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 15:00 UTC (34.2K avg upvotes), Friday at 23:00 UTC (18.8K avg upvotes), Friday at 12:00 UTC (18.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. 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/drawing?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/drawing has 23K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 215 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/drawing, 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.