These are 5 of my favorite 1D fan artists! I have so many favorites, so I’m going to try to post each month about different artists for the monthly 1D Fanworks Appreciation Day. You can find previous month’s artists in a masterpost here. Please remember to support our artists in whatever way you can!
Don’t forget to check out the @1dfanworksforcharity as bidding ends at the end of the month on fanworks by your favorite content creators including auctions from some of the artists on this rec list!
🔵 @annalarrie
Oh, how I love the bears! If you’ve ever seen the distinctive black and white RBB/SBB bear art, you’ve seen annalarrie’s art. It’s hard to pick a favorite because they’re all so adorable and I love them all so much! I’m going to have to go with two because they both have the bears dressed as bees and they melt my heart. <3 This one was done recently for the Teen Choice Award nominations to vote for Louis, and this one was for Project Miss You. (I had this all drafted up and then she went and made THIS and now this is my favorite thing in the world. Bees! Bears! Rainbow! All to promote Louis and Stonewall, including this charity merch raffle! )
🔵 @evenasyoungastheyare
You can find this artist’s art tagged here, and the thing that strikes me the most with it is just how diverse it all is. Not just with subjects but with styles and content. I absolutely love all the silhouettes and how she’s captured some iconic fandom moments, so it’s very hard to choose a favorite. I’ll just go with Louis haha. This one is of Louis drawn with white pencil on black paper and it is so amazing and beautiful! You can support this artist through Society 6 and also her RedBubble!
🔵 @curleduphl
This artist has brought so many fan fictions to life with her art! You can find all of her art tagged here. I love how this artist lets us in behind the scenes a bit with her art with sketches and wips and then the completed piece. There’s even some speed painting video you can watch of a piece being created! Some of the pieces are so whimsical with lovely color and others so graphic and black and white. I’m so partial to Louis with flowers though, so this piece is probably my favorite of them all. You can support this artist by buying her a coffee here or through Patreon!
🔵 @becomeawendybird
Molly often only posts her art for other people’s fics, but every once in a while you can catch her sharing her sketches. You can find some of her art in her tag here. My absolute favorite thing she’s drawn is this merman Harry! It’s so stunningly beautiful and it makes me want to yell at her to give me more art, but I know she’s busy also writing fics for us. So it’s hard to fault her for that haha. Molly is participating in @1dfanworksforcharity and you can find information on her auction here! Bidding ends at the end of the month, so you will need to be quick about it!
🔵 @harrehleh
There is so much stunning art to be found in this index that you should just click around to look at it all. She has created some incredible art for fics as well as both digital and traditional art. I love that you can see a tutorial and speed drawing as well because even though I can’t draw, I enjoy watching other people do it! There’s just so much emotion captured in these pieces that it’s hard to pick, but I’ll say for now that my favorite piece is this one of Louis on stage. It almost feels like you can see him taking a breath! This artist is also participating in the 1dfanworksforcharity auction, and you can see information on her auction here! Again, bidding ends at the end of June!
