How many art styles are out there?

[al.farcas]

Hi, I’ve haven’t got to painting in my pieces I’ve completed.

I’m still a beginner and I’m still learning anatomy at the moment.

I’m curious to know how many art styles there are and how they look?

[Michelist]

Hello @al.farcas, and welcome to the forum!

This is a question that is better suited for search engines than for the members of a forum, but if you want to know how unanswerable your question is, you may get a first impression looking at these topics of other websites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkvziqs1TW4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNw-UFOFRc8

https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/types-of-art-styles-list/

60+ Art Styles Explained With Examples | 2025

https://simplicable.com/culture/art-styles

https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/types-of-art-styles-list/

It begins with the question of who defines what counts as an art style, and that is only the first question that emerges out of your question - instead of being answerable.

And here is what a search engine spit out for your question.

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Since you asked your question in the wrong category, I moved it into a better suited category.

Michelist

[Takiro]

Since everyone has their own style it’s at least as many as there are artists. If you are looking for broader categories (like expressionism or realism) you can find them on Wikipedia.

[RalMer]

Every individual artist has their own art styles. Styles, as in, multiple of them. Artists don’t use a singular art style in their life. Artists develops and uses multiple art styles sometimes combine multiple art styles in one work. So, there are actually more art styles than there are artists.

But if you mean for a general art movements or trend, then there is a list of the Art Movements and Art Periods in Wikipedia.

[jointri]

An “art style” is just breaking the rules of drawing. There’s a near infinite ways to stylize because it’s tailored to how the creator wants the cartoon/anime to look like.