Art socials in 2025
In 2025, the art-social landscape is changing fast generative-AI tools, large platforms mining content, and creators seeking safe, meaningful spaces. This post looks at several online communities (including lesser-known and emerging ones) where artists can share their work, build connections and protect their creative integrity.
- Moracus
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Art socials in 2025
In this age of AI, It can be difficult to find a place where you can safely share your art, without the fear of getting it used for ai training. So in this Blog, we are gonna look at few online communities which are still free from Ai slop. Let’s get started.
1. Doodliee :- Well obviously, It’s a doodliee blog, so gotta mention it. Doodliee is quite a unique platform, where users directly draw on the site itself, to post it. This is a measure to prevent the site from getting flooded by “ai art”. Drawing on doodliee provides a therapeutic experience, because of how simple and intuitive the drawing tool is, and the endless types of creations you can make from it. It also has daily prompts and regular themed contests. The community is also very active and lively, which is great for any new artist. So if you ever look to just scribble your mind out throughout the day. You can go to Doodliee.
2. pixiv :- It has a huge active community for illustration and manga; great tagging system and contest infrastructure, highly supportive for serial creators and fan works.Historically Japan-first: some UX/communication friction for international users (though English support has improved).
Monetization and discovery are still tied to localized contests and community norms (which can be a barrier for newcomers).
3.ArtStation :- Industry-focused, great for games, film, VFX artists; portfolio credibility; jobs/commissions,Feels transactional: optimized for hires and asset sales rather than casual sharing or practice.Some features behind paid tiers; subscription and hiring changes can hurt small creators. Recent 2025 updates show ArtStation doubling down on recruitment/marketplace integration, which benefits studios more than hobbyists.
4. Cara :- Cara is a newer art-platform and social networking app aimed at professional and hobby artists alike. Its mission is to be a “creator-first” space for sharing art, building portfolios, and networking with industry peers.The founder, Jingna Zhang, created Cara in response to concerns about how generative-AI tools were impacting the creative community.
Well, these were all I could think of, I basically wanted to show the contrast between Doodliee and other platforms :D.