🧑‍🎨 Artist emoji

The artist emoji means a painter, illustrator, designer, creative worker, or person making visual art. Use it for painting, drawing, crafts, design, galleries, commissions, creativity, and art projects.

It is the gender-neutral artist emoji. For a gendered version in this set, compare 👨‍🎨 Man artist, or use 🧑‍🎤 Singer when the creative work is music performance.

Could also be called artist, painter, designer, illustrator or art emoji emoji.

Other meanings

Can also mean creative thinking, making something by hand, art class, a design idea, personal style, or an expressive mood.

Example Usage

Painting all afternoon 🧑‍🎨 New logo sketches today 🧑‍🎨 Art class was relaxing 🧑‍🎨

Related emoji

Painting emojis

• 👨‍🎨 Man artist
• 👩‍🎨 Woman artist
• 🎨️ Artist palette
• 🖌️ Paintbrush

Professions emojis

• 🧑‍⚕️ Health worker
• 👨‍⚕️ Man health worker
• 👩‍⚕️ Woman health worker
• 🧑‍🎓 Student

Visual description

On iOS, this shows a person holding a paint palette and brush. At small sizes, the round palette with colored paint spots is the clearest clue.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.