Written by David Roberts
Reviewed by Lucas Walter
Updated
The top art influencers in 2026 are Shrimpy, de la crem studio, Safeyah Aljabouri, Nessbert Draws, and Karen Cheok. This list ranks 47 art influencers by median views across their recent videos, not by follower count. Each one was found by searching across hundreds of thousands of top-performing posts in the art niche.
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| Rank | Creator | Followers | Median views | Engagement | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shrimpy @Shrimpy | 1.8M | 1.6M | 2.7% | Anime drawing challenges |
| 2 | de la crem studio @delacremstudio | 844K | 619K | 2.5% | Watercolor tutorials |
| 3 | Safeyah Aljabouri @safeyahaljabouri | 458K | 494K | 3.9% | Portrait painting experiments |
| 4 | Nessbert Draws @NessbertDraws | 189K | 474K | 2% | Marker tutorials and color theory |
| 5 | Karen Cheok @daixykaren | 441K | 455K | 7% | Sculpted 3D paintings |
| 6 | Howard Lee @howardglee | 2.5M | 413K | 2% | Pencil illusions and realism |
| 7 | Sam Yang @samdoesarts | 2.1M | 321K | 5.3% | Digital painting tutorials |
| 8 | Philip Sue @philipsue_art | 1M | 316K | 7.3% | Anime background speedpaints |
| 9 | Mallow @mallows.art.tricks | 761K | 274K | 19.1% | One drawing trick per video |
| 10 | Phoebe Reeder @bumblephee_art | 183K | 242K | 20.7% | Cartoons painted as old masters |
| 11 | loish @loisvb | 2.6M | 236K | 5.9% | Digital painting advice |
| 12 | Jazza @Jazza | 6.7M | 223K | 5.7% | Studio builds and art-supply tests |
| 13 | Giselle Mariel Ibarra @sincerely.art | 321K | 218K | 5.4% | Skies and moons in oil |
| 14 | Silvie Mahdal @silviemahdal_art | 2.6M | 213K | – | Quiet charcoal portraits |
| 15 | Spilled Ink @SpilledInkyt | 558K | 206K | 6% | Two-artist drawing games |
| 16 | Yvonne @sugar.ghoulz | 144K | 205K | 13.6% | Gouache cartoon fan art |
| 17 | Jenni Inberg @jenniinbergart | 461K | 193K | 3.9% | Semi-abstract fantasy landscapes |
| 18 | Money Kaur @moneykaur_art | 108K | 190K | 0.6% | One-stroke flower painting |
| 19 | Drawfee @Drawfee | 1.9M | 190K | 6.5% | Comedy drawing games |
| 20 | Guillaume Pineau @guiz.pn | 46K | 171K | 4.7% | Anime drawn with a squeegee on glass |
| 21 | LavenderTowne @LavenderTowne | 2.3M | 164K | 9.5% | Redesigns and art-style challenges |
| 22 | dansy thomas @slugdealerrr | 86.6K | 146K | 8.7% | Furniture sculpted from recycled paper |
| 23 | Pablín @Pablinwesley | 459K | 142K | 0.6% | Minecraft and Roblox character drawings |
| 24 | AJstudios @itsajart | 3.4M | 116K | 5.2% | Character design, talked through |
| 25 | Derek Domnic D’Souza @derekdomnicdsouza | 1.2M | 114K | 3.6% | Digital sketching and gear tests |
| 26 | Kenton Scott @kentoncscott | 679K | 112K | 7.8% | Fixing followers’ drawings |
| 27 | Marc Brunet @YTartschool | 1.9M | 106K | 7.1% | Digital art lessons |
| 28 | رقية @rukiya.o.y | 44.4K | 93.5K | 11% | Acrylic paintings, sped up |
| 29 | jei @sloeo | 705K | 93.4K | 20.6% | Sketchbook draw-with-me |
| 30 | anirrie_ @anirrie_ | 172K | 93.2K | 26.8% | Digital fan art and redesigns |
| 31 | Temi Danso @TemiDansoArt | 921K | 90.1K | 2.2% | Marker challenges and illusions |
| 32 | tofuw @_tofuw | 137K | 86.3K | 10.3% | Watercolor anime drawings |
| 33 | Malena @malenabozzini | 362K | 86K | 12.5% | Oil on wood and clay sculpture |
| 34 | Bree Copley @watercolorsbybree | 684K | 84.4K | 3.3% | Easy watercolor tutorials |
| 35 | sheryl sethi @artsysheryl | 202K | 78.8K | 5.8% | Acrylic skies in sketchbooks |
| 36 | Elizmill @elizmil.art | 532K | 73.4K | 7.6% | Digital line art and brushes |
| 37 | Art with Zee @shan_artist123 | 95.4K | 70.3K | 1.8% | Easy pencil sketches |
| 38 | kalinina.arts @kalinina.arts | 781K | 69.7K | 15.4% | Pen and marker sketchbooks |
| 39 | Proko @ProkoTV | 4.4M | 67.4K | 4.1% | Drawing and painting lessons |
| 40 | Paul Kenton @paulkenton | 2.2M | 67K | 2.8% | Big acrylic cityscapes |
| 41 | Derek Macara @dmacara | 537K | 65.1K | 5.8% | Large oil seascapes |
| 42 | Paint Coach @forza43 | 304K | 62.2K | 4.4% | Oil lessons at the easel |
| 43 | Pinoxart @pinoxart | 559K | 60.5K | 1.5% | Doodle and zentangle patterns |
| 44 | Artist Deepak @ARTWITHDEEPAK | 697K | 57.5K | – | Portrait sketches on odd surfaces |
| 45 | Lily-Rose Burgess @lilyroseburgess | 362K | 57.4K | 4.4% | Oil painting lessons |
| 46 | The Draw Block @thedrawblock | 31.4K | 57.2K | 2.9% | Beginner acrylic landscapes |
| 47 | foxykirart @foxykirart | 113K | 53.3K | 21.3% | Procreate fan-art speedpaints |
The best art influencers aren’t simply the accounts with the most followers. Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok all show videos to people based on how the video performs individually, not just based on who follows the creator. As a result, a small or midsized account can reach more people than one several times its size.
That’s why we rank art influencers by median views of their videos (the average number of people a typical video reaches). As of November 2026, the five most watched are Shrimpy, de la crem studio, Safeyah Aljabouri, Nessbert Draws, and Karen Cheok.
Four kinds of work a supply or software brand might book: lessons, challenges, canvas process, and character art. The number beside each name is the creator’s overall rank.
One technique per video, explained while the tool is in hand. The fit for a brush, paint, or app a viewer can copy.
Step-by-step watercolor Reels, one animal or object each, narrated in a calm voiceover and finished in under a minute. A monthly print club by mail is the creator’s own product.
4 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in streaming, phone accessories, skincare, and beauty.
Marker and pencil Shorts that each fix one beginner mistake, from tears and eyebrows to long hair and glass. A color-theory series argues with the rules students learn first.
1 sponsored video in the last 90 days, in art markers.
Short pencil tutorials that build a face, a box, or an optical illusion in under a minute, next to long realism time-lapses. Celebrity and character names lead the titles.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Digital painting lessons on rendering skin, coloring faces, and stylized portraits, plus a series that rates other people’s art tutorials. Prints, a Patreon, and an art book are sold from every description.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Short drawing lessons, one trick each: hands, skin color, folds, feathers. A drawn lizard narrates over the digital canvas.
1 sponsored post in the last 90 days, in art apps.
Procreate painting talks narrated over the brushwork: water, light, focal points, and style. Most of the grid is finished pieces and sketchbook pages.
1 sponsored post in the last 90 days, in reference software.
Procreate painting and sketching filmed over the shoulder, with running talk on tools and technique. Sketch dumps, quick environment studies, and tablet and phone tests.
4 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in phones and tablets and creative software.
An art teacher reworks drawings that followers send in, repainting the anatomy and perspective on camera. Every video opens on the same question.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Lessons of 12 to 20 minutes, each on one digital painting technique: coloring methods, lineart drills, anatomy, and practice routines. Screen capture of work in progress, with the creator’s own art school and painting app in every description.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Beginner watercolor tutorials filmed from above at a home desk, one small subject per Reel: a pumpkin, a teapot, a squirrel. Color-theory tips and supply hacks in between.
6 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in art supplies, heat presses, and packaged food.
Pencil sketch tutorials from above, each building one cute face, cartoon eye, or animal out of simple shapes. Captions send viewers to YouTube for the full version.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Long drawing and painting lessons, one skill per video: heads, drapery, perspective, values, and comic covers. Stan Prokopenko hosts most of them, with guest instructors demonstrating on camera.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Oil-painting lessons at the easel, each fixing one beginner habit: squinting, starting with two colors, painting form before features. Chris Fornataro ends most of them with a course prompt.
4 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in art classes and art supplies.
Overhead clips of a pen building doodle and zentangle patterns: borders, drips, bookmarks, and seasonal motifs. Most Reels last 15 to 22 seconds and carry no caption.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Oil-painting lessons in close-up on mixing, blending, and mediums, alongside talks to camera. Most captions point to a course waitlist and a postcard club.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Beginner acrylic landscapes painted on small canvases in one take: sunsets, mountains, lighthouses. Each one ends by asking viewers what to paint next.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
A rule or a game sets up each drawing. Products often become the premise: the pen, the paint, the price.
Anime and manga characters drawn under a rule: one marker, inverted colors, or a Pokémon card that picks the subject. Monthly long videos follow the making of an original manga, with anatomy tutorials in between.
3 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in chewing gum and trading cards.
Oil and acrylic portraits at the easel, each Short built as a color-theory test: a new background, a swapped palette, the cheapest paints. The finished face is the reveal.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Painting vlogs talking to camera at the desk and easel, in acrylic, watercolor, airbrush, and colored pencil. Childhood shows and meme characters are repainted in the style of old masters, with cheap-versus-expensive supply tests between.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Weekly studio builds that move between drawing, painting, sculpting, 3D printing, and stop-motion, often with a guest artist. Art supplies get tested on camera, and the finished piece is the payoff.
9 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in art supplies, drawing tablets, laser and UV printers, films, and software.
Two artists, Daidus and Emily, drawing side by side through games: 15-minute art swaps, style challenges, and trivia answered in drawings. Inktober recaps and detours into pottery and airbrush fill the rest.
3 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in art markers, craft supplies, and online shopping.
Professional cartoonists drawing to a prompt on tablets and joking through it: challenges, guessing games, and redraws from a description. Nathan Yaffe, Jacob Andrews, and Julia Lepetit front it.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Long drawing and character-design videos: redesign challenges, art-style experiments, and creepy takes on familiar characters. Horror book and film critiques sit between them.
1 sponsored video in the last 90 days, in creative software.
Long challenge videos in a bright home studio, pushing markers, paint pens, and coloring books into illusions and viral techniques. Roblox speed-draw games and 3D drawing builds sit between them.
2 sponsored videos in the last 90 days, in toy bricks and online classes.
Process filmed start to finish, ending on the finished piece. Most sell originals or prints alongside.
Paintings that rise off the canvas, built from clay and sculpted pieces before the acrylic goes on. Apples, stars, and pomegranates come back again and again.
2 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in smartphones and cosmetics.
Oil and acrylic skies, moons, and waves, filmed from a blank canvas to the reveal. Print drops, a mail club, and paint-and-sip tour dates come between.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Slow charcoal drawings of faces, fabric, and hands set to soft music, with almost no talking. Print-shop and tutorial-club notes sit between them.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Long process Reels of semi-abstract fantasy landscapes on large canvases, with notes on blending, layering, and texture. Most end on the prints and calendars sold from the creator’s own shop.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
One-stroke acrylic flowers on black paper, filmed from above with the loaded brush in frame. One bloom and one color pair a day, ending on a question to the comments.
26 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in acrylic paints and art supplies.
Anime characters drawn with a squeegee on a sheet of glass, filmed through the pane and held up at the end. Wordless one-minute clips set to anime themes.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Shelves, lamps, and lanterns sculpted from cardboard and homemade paper clay, filmed close up in a home studio as multi-part progress updates. Written tutorials list the materials.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Acrylic paintings on canvas filmed from above and sped up into a one-to-two-minute clip, with one mood line on screen. Swans, moons, and windows, finished on camera.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Oil-painted faces on wood panels and short clay-sculpture clips, almost always mid-process. Each caption is one dry line.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Acrylic and gouache skies, roads, and sunrises in sketchbooks and on canvas, as short close-up time-lapses with a mood caption. Relatable clips about running out of paint come between.
1 sponsored post in the last 90 days, in sketchbooks.
Cityscapes on large canvases, paint thrown and dragged in close-up, then the finished street revealed. Carousels of earlier paintings run alongside every day.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Large oil seascapes on linen, built up with brush and knife while the canvas fills the frame. Each Reel names the painting and its size; recent ones promote a cloud-painting course.
1 sponsored post in the last 90 days, in cameras.
Pencil and paint time-lapses of one portrait or devotional figure per Short, often on a rupee note, a watermelon, or a pin. Cut with motion effects, with titles in English and Hinglish.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Anime, games, and original characters, drawn fast for fans who already know them.
Digital speedpaints of anime and game backgrounds with the palette and each step on screen. Finished pieces, courses, and convention dates fill the rest.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Gouache and colored-pencil fan art of cartoons, painted at the desk in close-up with the sketch shown first. Stickers and prints are sold on Etsy.
1 sponsored post in the last 90 days, in toys.
Fast Shorts of game characters drawn in marker on paper and cardboard, hands only, ending on a reveal. Minecraft and Roblox characters lead, often in a “which version” comparison.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Character design on a tablet, screen-recorded, with the choices talked through out loud. October ran as a near-daily Halloween series of costumed characters.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Draw-with-me videos in a sketchbook, one character per post, with soft-spoken talk about colors and brushes. The medium changes each time: watercolor, colored pencil, pastel, marker, gel pen.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Digital fan art and character redesigns, shown as draw-with-me clips, process cuts, and photo sets of finished pieces. A vintage redesign series is the recurring format.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Watercolor and marker drawings of anime characters, filmed close on the paper with the brush tip filling the frame. Captions are mostly emoji and hashtags.
4 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in art markers and watercolors.
Digital line-art time-lapses drawn on a tablet, a stylized face or figure built stroke by stroke in 15 to 20 seconds. Nearly every post also shows off the creator’s own brush sets.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Fast pen-and-marker sketchbook drawings built block by block, set to music. Most posts point to a paid drawing club.
3 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in art markers and video games.
Procreate speedpaints of anime and game fan art, cut to a fast edit. Commissions, prints, and wallpapers are sold from the bio.
1 sponsored post in the last 90 days, in drawing tablets.
We analyzed the 480 posts these 47 creators published on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok in the last 30 days. Of those, 65 beat their creator’s usual views by 3× or more.
Here is how this month’s breakouts open, read from what each video says in its first seconds, or from its caption when nobody speaks.
“Draw itachi uchiwa”
Most breakouts with a transcript had no speech at all: 20 of 30, from 7 creators. The same creators’ usual posts are silent nearly as often, so silence is their format, not what made these posts take off.
Guillaume Pineau 1.8M views · 10.6× their usualWith nobody talking, the caption does the job a first sentence would. In the silent breakouts it is a few words that name the subject, such as “Draw itachi uchiwa” or “Old draft of these two,” and the drawing does the rest.
“How can we improve this drawing?”
Every breakout of this kind comes from one art teacher, who opens each video with the same question. His everyday videos start with those exact words too.
Kenton Scott 860K views · 7.7× their usualThe second sentence is what differs. The breakouts take on problems many beginners share, such as anatomy that “looks off,” chubby proportions, or shading, while the usual posts take narrower requests like lighting a character from behind.
“Drawing but with color theory.”
These open by saying what the artist is about to do and the rule or the medium for it. Two of the three come from one sketchbook artist, and three of the same two creators’ four usual posts open this way as well.
Shrimpy 7.1M views · 4.4× their usualSo the opening did not make the difference; the format is the same on a good day and an average one. What a brand can take from it is the shape: name the tool or the rule in the first words, then let the drawing prove it.
Pablín: “Lovety drawing Verity ✍🏻” reached 16M views, 114× their usual.
Artist Deepak: “Sketching A.P.J Abdul Kalam 🙏🇮🇳” reached 5.4M views, 93.5× their usual.
Art with Zee: “Cute boy drawing” reached 2.6M views, 37.6× their usual.
This table shows what the art accounts on this list do at each size on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. Use it to judge whether a creator’s numbers are strong for their tier.
| Tier | Followers | Median views | Engagement | Posts a week | Sponsored posts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Micro | Under 100K | 93.5K | 4.7% | 1.4 | 0% |
| Mid | 100K to 500K | 166K | 5.6% | 1.8 | 9% |
| Macro | 500K to 2M | 106K | 6.3% | 1.9 | 7% |
| Mega | Over 2M | 213K | 5.3% | 1.6 | 5% |
The figures are medians across these 47 accounts, from each account’s recent videos. “Sponsored posts” is the share of posts in the 90 days to Nov 6, 2026, that carry a paid-partnership or paid-promotion label or a stated sponsor, or are part of a brand campaign.
If you sell paint, markers, sketchbooks, tablets, or art software, you want an artist whose audience will see your product in use and want to try it.
A watercolor audience will not buy a drawing tablet because of one video, and a Procreate audience rarely buys oil paint. Look at the last 30 posts, not the most-viewed one, and check what the artist actually works in most weeks.
Some artists film the canvas from above with the brush in frame; others record the screen, or talk to camera and cut to the finished piece. Paint or a pen needs the first kind of footage; an app needs the screen. Watch a few usual posts and see whether a viewer could tell what was used.
Many artists sell their own brushes, courses, or prints, and some post for one paint brand week after week. A competing brush set or an existing paint partner can rule a deal out before it starts, so ask early.
Artists on this list answer accusations of AI in their comments and post long process clips to prove the work. A sponsored post that looks generated, or a product shot with no hands in it, gets the same questions. Let the artist film the product in their own process.
Brands often start by sending paint or a tablet for free. Under the FTC’s guidance for influencers, free or discounted products are a relationship the post has to disclose, even when nobody was paid.
We identified and ranked these creators by searching hundreds of thousands of top-performing art posts across Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok with Klint.
We rank by median views across each creator’s recent videos, so one viral post can’t lift an account up the list. Creators from any country qualify if they post in English or with no words and at least half of their recent posts show them making or teaching art; accounts of AI images, crafts, and reposts are left out.
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As of November 2026 the top five art influencers by median views are Shrimpy, de la crem studio, Safeyah Aljabouri, Nessbert Draws, and Karen Cheok.
It is Jazza, with 6.7M YouTube subscribers. A typical video reaches fewer people than several smaller channels do, so the rank by median views is 12th of 47.
Three: 21 rank highest on Instagram, 14 on YouTube, and 12 on TikTok. An artist with big accounts on two platforms is counted only where a typical video gets more views.
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It depends on the platform, the length of the video, and how much of the video the product takes. Many deals in this niche start with free supplies or a tablet; paid work is usually a fee per video, and artists who sell their own brushes or courses may ask about competing products first.
The list ranks people who make or teach art on camera, measured by how many people watch their videos. Gallery artists and art-world figures rarely post that way, so they are not here. Accounts that post AI images, crafts, or other people’s art are left out too.
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