🧑‍🎨

Artist Emoji 🧑‍🎨

Beret and paint palette in hand — the artist emoji is the classic painter archetype. It's used for anyone making visual art, from professional creatives to someone just doodling, and shows up often in portfolio bios and art-account handles.

What 🧑‍🎨 means

A shoulder-length representation of a gender-neutral artist. This character is designed with a beret, a typical Italian artist's costume, a palette, and a paintbrush in each hand.

The 🧑‍🎨 Artist emoji refers to any artist irrespective of gender and sex. This emoji signifies creativity, talent, skill, uniqueness as an artist, and passion for art too. It is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

If you're posting an artwork of yours, use 🧑‍🎨 in the caption. It especially works great if you are sensitive about your identity online.
You can also use 🧑‍🎨 while responding to any beautiful art post that you came across on social media. Tag this emoji along with other expressive emojis like ❤️ Heart and 😍 Smiling Face With Heart-Eyes emojis.
If your bestie is a little worked up about something that happened, send the 🧑‍🎨 emoji. Didn't get it? Ask him/her to paint you a picture of the situation/drama (smart? hell yeah).
You can also use 🧑‍🎨 in the post captions while posting about artworks, art events, exhibitions, etc on social media.
If your company is in need of a graphic artist or any artist, you can pop in the 🧑‍🎨 emoji either into the post caption or within the post itself.
If you love art and that's where your passion lies, then what's stopping you from defining yourself with what you love? Add the 🧑‍🎨 emoji into your social media profile name to seem like a quirky, artsy, art lover.

Other Names

🧑‍🎨 Gender-Neutral Artist
🧑‍🎨 Painter
🧑‍🎨 Art Person
🧑‍🎨 Sketcher
🧑‍🎨 Artsy
🧑‍🎨 Art Lover
🧑‍🎨 Artisan
🧑‍🎨 Craftsman
🧑‍🎨 Illustrator
🧑‍🎨 Art Person
🧑‍🎨 Italian Artist
🧑‍🎨 Caricature Artist

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-role
Codepoints: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F3A8
Emoji version: Emoji 12.1
Shortcodes: :artist: Slack · Discord
Keywords: artist, palette
How it's built: Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.