The best Digital Art newsletters

Personal essays and cultural criticism about virtual worlds such as VRChat, Second Life and Furcadia, covering art, fashion, music and the history behind them. Readers get first-person experience, art history context and practical experiments from a working virtual-world artist.

A newsletter on art at the intersection of videogames, covering exhibitions and events such as Kalman Pool's browser-based art game, Gregory Nachmanovitch's films shot inside commercial games, and Mike Whiting's pixel-inspired steel sculptures. Each issue pairs a short essay-style description of a work with its context, artist background and exhibition details.

Art of FACELESS is a small studio's blog covering its handmade digital art and its fight against platform AI-labelling after Pinterest tagged its work as "AI modified". It also explains the energy and water costs of data centres and AI with worked figures and sources.

Camille Roux writes personal and project-based essays about algorithmic art and creative coding, covering the learning journey from first scripts to a major studio drop. Issues also walk through the technical and conceptual design of individual generative artworks, such as isolines, signed distance functions and collector-controlled parameters.

Atticus Review is an online literary journal publishing prose, poetry and mixed media since 2011, with a recent shift toward blockchain and NFT projects. Its newsletter features author spotlights, illustrated pieces by artist Adriana Quezada, and editorial reflections on its literary NFT marketplace.

Daniel Vollmond's newsletter shares announcements and descriptions of his art installations and performances, which examine surveillance, colonial history and technology. It also points to term7, his anonymous tech-diary project with guides on open-source software, encryption and privacy.

Photo Image Planet publishes practical photography guides covering equipment, techniques, depth of field, and image editing. Readers get explanations of camera settings, calculators, and lens recommendations for beginners and working photographers.

A tutorial newsletter covering practical Photoshop techniques such as color modes for print, building watercolor-style illustrations, and writing better prompts for AI image generation. Readers get short, how-to guidance aimed at improving digital art and print work.

A company blog from the team behind the Lake coloring app, mixing practical guides for digital coloring with lifestyle advice on screen time, slow hobbies and iPad use. Readers get beginner tips, app recommendations and a gentle case for active over passive screen time.

The primitives blog announces product updates for the primitives art platform, including the lootbox rewards system and the pause of its trading feature, and features individual artists. Readers get news about platform changes plus short artist profiles drawn from the creative community.

A creator-run newsletter sharing monthly drops of AI-generated images of muscular men, with personal updates from the author about their health and creative projects. Content is tiered, with free samples and fuller archives for paid members.

This is a product-update newsletter from the Sketchar drawing app, announcing features such as an artist opportunity-matching agent, new AR surface-warping tools for Meta Quest and mobile, and cross-platform multiplayer drawing. Readers get feature announcements and how-to walkthroughs, written as promotional copy for the app.

E.A.T__WORKS is a cultural production house that pairs artists with technologists, and this newsletter promotes generative and blockchain-based art projects such as LoVid's sleeves and Claudia Hart and Andrew Blanton's Systems Madness. Issues mainly present artwork descriptions, exhibition notices and mailing-list calls rather than analysis.

A promotional newsletter for NFC Summit 2027 in Lisbon, mixing ticket sales pitches for an on-chain 'name on the wall' campaign with recaps of its live show episodes featuring crypto artists and NFT collection launches. Readers get event dates, early bird ticket details, and news of NFT drops and community activities.

This blog from the Zedge wallpaper app publishes SEO-style guides on phone wallpaper resolutions, categories and download collections, with links to its own galleries. Readers get practical sizing advice and app comparisons, but the material is largely promotional and repetitive.