List of The Best Art Channels on YouTube to Watch

One of the best ways to learn is to watch someone else do it. In this article you will find a list of the most recommended art channels on YouTube.

What is an art channel?
As the name suggests, it’s a channel generally dedicated to art, painting, drawing, sculpting and often animation (made by the channel’s owner). On such channels, you can often find recorded processes of creating an artwork, mostly speeded-up, since it can take hours to create artworks (for example an illustration). It’s a great way to learn, since you can see exactly what tools and software are used to create a certain artwork.

Some artists often live stream while creating art, allowing the viewers to ask questions in the chatbox. Other videos you can find on art channels are podcasts, where the host makes an interview with an artist, and overpainting videos. The goal of overpainting videos is to show beginners (and more skilled artists as well) how their illustration can be improved, by taking their artwork, and painting over them, eliminating all mistakes the work has (anathomy, composition, light etc.).

List of the best art channels on YouTube

LevelUP

Visit LevelUp’s art channel on YouTube

Level up!’ is an idea of two Polish artists – Wojtek Fus and Darek Zabrocki, who want to teach and learn from each other. Recently, Level Up has expanded a host team by amazing Jonas De Ro! Join 2-hour long livestreams with critiques, overpaintings and Q&A’s. It’s free and open for everybody!

Proko

Visit Proko’s art channel on Youtube

An art channel hosted by Stan Prokopenko. Proko is a resource for artists to get good art instruction videos.
When you watch Proko tutorials you’ll notice that he tries to make them entertaining while keeping them educational – if you’re having fun and enjoying the learning process, you learn better. You retain more information, you pay more attention, you’re much more likely to continue learning and more likely to go back and re-watch tutorials. And it will leave you more inspired and motivated to go practice.

Bobby Chiu

Visit Bobby Chiu’s art channel on YouTube

Bobby Chiu is an Artist/Teacher/Creator. On his channel you will find Interviews, vblogging, demos… anything and everything that’s helpful for any artist

Feng Zhu – FZDSCHOOL

Visit Feng Zhu’s art channel on YouTube

FZD School of Design provides an education in entertainment design. Their courses cover a wide range of topics such as video games, feature films, theme parks, consumer products, toys, television commercials and set designs. FZD focuses heavily on the importance of fundamentals and scientific understandings. Their aim is to mold students into elite designers with a broad range of skills and graduate with top notch portfolio. To find out more about our training outline, please visit the official website www.fzdschool.com

DrawWithJazza

Visit DrawWithJazza’s art channel on YouTube

DrawWith Jazza is a place where Josiah Brooks celebrates art, creativity, and community whether it’s ambitious art projects or ridiculous challenges, make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss out any of the fun.

China Digital Painting

Visit China Digital Painting’s art channel on YouTube

An art channel dedicated to gathering painting processes made by Chinese artists.

DaveRapoza

Visit DaveRapoza’s art channel on YouTube

This channel is mainly in support of the Crimson Daggers online art community featuring interviews with industry veterans and tutorials/general advice from Dave Rapoza.

They make awesome art tutorial videos for artists of all skill levels! If you want to bring your art game to the next level, their professionals will teach you all the strategies and tricks that they use to be the best in their fields. Subscribe to www.svslearn.com to get access to hundreds of hours of art instruction.

Rob Brown works currently full time as a Senior Concept Artist for RIOT games. He has been a professional designer and illustrator in the digital industry over a decade. He’s completely fluent in nearly every position in environment development for games, including Art Director, Level Designer, Senior Environment Modeler, and Concept Artist.
On his YouTube art channel, he posts very useful videos where he explains all details of concept artist’s work in the game industry.