r/ImaginaryCharacters

85K archived posts · Aug 2011 – Sep 2026

Imaginary Characters: Artwork of heroes, villains, and champions

*Pictorial* art of characters from fantasy, sci-fi, history, or other fiction. Armored warriors, powerful wizards, deadly ninjas, intrepid archaeologists, starfighter pilots, badass gunslingers: all are welcome. If it's awesome, fantastic, and human (or anything even close), submit it here!

Created Aug 25, 2011

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The Imaginary Network:

r/ImaginaryCharacters

r/ImaginaryLandscapes

r/ImaginaryMonsters

r/ImaginaryTechnology

A multi-reddit of The Imaginary Network

This reddit community is for submitting your favorite pictorial art of characters from Fantasy, Sci-fi or Historical Fiction. For example, armored warriors, powerful wizards, deadly ninjas, intrepid archaeologists, starfighter pilots, badass gunslingers... all are welcome, as long as it's awesome, fantastic and human - or anything even close. Your post might inspire an illustrator, an author or someone's D&D campaign. No photos, please.

No images of mass-market characters, such as Batman, etc., unless they're reimagined or reinterpretations of them.

No AI art

Please credit the artist by their real name and link to source. Please take 5 minutes to use Google Image Search or TinEye

Use the actual title of the artwork: Don't retitle an artist's piece, even if the relation between the title and the piece is unintuitive. Do not create a title for an untitled piece either.

No "Commission" info in titles

No links to collections of wallpapers or a portfolio: Please link to one image, and post a link to the gallery in the comments

Self-submissions: Flair reserved for artists posting their own work (Original Content/'OC'): Click the word 'flair' under your post's title then click 'Self-submission' and Save. Leave a comment about your piece. Warning: Self-promotion without community engagement may result in a ban.

3 submissions max. every 24 hours

No politics/sexual politics

No subreddit marketing

No obvious card art

No shortened URLs

Reposts of submissions already posted to this subreddit are OK after 8 months

Moderators may remove posts/comments at their discretion

Requests: For payable requests, try r/HungryArtists, r/ArtStore, r/DesignJobs or Dribbble. Or you can search the deviantArt Job offers or Services forums. For casual requests, try r/picrequests

Other fine subreddits you might enjoy:

r/CharacterDrawing - Pro bono requests to artists to draw your original characters

r/ComicBookArt - For the art form that is comic books

r/SpecArt - Explore the visual aspects of imagined worlds

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