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r/learntodraw

Learn to Draw. New to drawing? Let us help you learn how to get started! Drawing is a skill, not a talent. It doesn't matter if you can draw or not, with practice you can be the best. We welcome you to our community. Learn with us, the future artists of reddit. Founded 2012 · 3.1M members

3.1M members. The best post we have captured here reached 12.7K upvotes, which works out to 4 per 1,000 members.

4peak upvotes per 1,000 members
3.1Mmembers
12.7Kbest post
1.1Kmost comments
413posts 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.

46% 42%
Gallery 46% Image 42% Question 5% Text 5% 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.

Just Sharing 116 Critique 102 Question 90 No Critique, Just Sharing 3 Tutorial 3 Timelapse 3

What the ceiling looks like

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

To whoever this is, I'm sorry.

↑ 12.7K 💬 297 gallery 2025

Did I get the angle right?

↑ 12.4K 💬 111 gallery 2026

Breaking hands into simple forms has been helping me a lot.

↑ 12.2K 💬 174 gallery 2026

restarting back from zero. no more shortcuts anymore.

↑ 12K 💬 160 image 2025

I guess ballpoint pens are kinda my thing…

↑ 10.4K 💬 279 gallery 2024

My first attempt at animation

↑ 10.2K 💬 183 gallery 2025

6 months of daily practice

↑ 9.9K 💬 97 image 2025

maybe not the right sub for this? but i redrew the same sketch with vs without taking my ADHD meds 💀

↑ 9K 💬 221 image 2026

Sisyphus typa shit

↑ 8.5K 💬 114 image 2026

Attempting the same drawing 3 years later, how’s my progress?

↑ 8.4K 💬 131 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/learntodraw, in numbers

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

What is r/learntodraw?
r/learntodraw ("Learn to Draw") describes itself this way: New to drawing? Let us help you learn how to get started! Drawing is a skill, not a talent. It doesn't matter if you can draw or not, with practice you can be the best. We welcome you to our community. Learn with us, the future artists of reddit. It was founded in 2012 and has 3.1M members.
How many members does r/learntodraw have?
r/learntodraw has about 3.1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 413 of its posts; the biggest reached 12.7K upvotes, which is 4 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/learntodraw?
"To whoever this is, I'm sorry." reached 12.7K upvotes and 297 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/learntodraw.
What subreddits are similar to r/learntodraw?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PcBuild, r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile, r/blackcats.
What kind of posts do best on r/learntodraw?
Of the posts we hold, 46% are gallery posts and 42% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/learntodraw?
Across 413 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 14:00 UTC (5.3K avg upvotes), Saturday at 13:00 UTC (4.6K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 14:00 UTC (4.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/learntodraw?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/learntodraw has 7.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 132 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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