Drawing & Painting

60 prompts across 5 engines: 660 answers analysed this week. Week 42 · 12–18 October 2026. Illustration, painting, digital art, character design, art tutorials.

character designdigital illustrationgouache paintingportrait drawingurban sketchingwatercolor landscapes

All of Arts & Creative: the Top 25, the other lists and every topic's leaders

Top 10

CSV

#WkCreatorScoreEngines12 wkMost cited

1 P Prokowith Draftsmen, Marshall Vandruff 74 youtube.com/@ProkoTVcited 6× when named 2 JG James Gurney576k followers 54 instagram.com/jamesgurneyartcited 4× when named 3 SD Sinix Design1.3M followers 48 socialblade.com/instagram/user/sinixdesign/…cited 2× when named 4 MB Marco Bucci986k followers 43 fable.co/author/marco-buccicited 1× when named 5 LS Liz Steel24k followers 42 reddit.com/r/urbansketchers/comments/1kcf5wkcited 2× when named 6 1 EB Ethan Becker879k followers 37 youtube.com/@EthanBecker70cited 5× when named 7 1 S @samdoesarts434k followers 35 linktr.ee/samdoesartscited 1× when named 8 6 MT Marc Taro Holmes10k followers 34 urbansketchers.org/2016/01/22/video-review-…cited 1× when named 9 2 MB Marc Brunet1.9M followers 33 urlebird.com/user/ytartschoolcited 3× when named 10 2 DW Draw with Jazza6.7M followers 32 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazza_%28YouTuber%29cited 1× when named

Also named by AI

Organisations, publications and institutions AI names alongside the Drawing & Painting creators. They are listed apart and not ranked.

Urban Sketchers

Engine coverage

How many of the top 10 each engine names in Drawing & Painting, and how strongly

ChatGPT 10

Gemini 9

Claude 10

Grok 10

Perplexity 7

Not namedNamed first 75%+No answers from the engine

Topic leaders

The creators AI names most for each of the 6 topics in this sub-category, most-asked first

character design110 answers Proko 51.8% · Ethan Becker 31.8% · Sinix Design 33.6%

digital illustration110 answers Proko 54.5% · Sinix Design 40.0% · Marco Bucci 38.2%

gouache painting110 answers James Gurney 61.8% · Sarah Burns 37.3% · Ruth Wilshaw 30.9%

portrait drawing110 answers Proko 79.1% · Stephen Bauman 33.6% · Sinix Design 25.5%

urban sketching110 answers Liz Steel 71.8% · Marc Taro Holmes 45.5% · Gabriel Campanario 31.8%

watercolor landscapes110 answers Joseph Zbukvic 30.9% · Alvaro Castagnet 30.0% · The Mind of Watercolor 23.6%

Share of the topic's answers that name the creator.