July art log

This went so well last month I’m doing it again. Themes for the month: Markers and fish. Markers are fun; I get to play more with the marker set brother got me. Subject-wise I plan to focus on aquatic life generally, but the art server is super strict about topicality, so I gotta be careful what I post in #monthly-subject. Quick reference:

• fish: sharks, rays, eels, seahorses
• not fish: jellyfish, octopi, plesiosaurs

(6/2 note: I feel I’m not alone in this endeavor, since Zorrra just posted an octopus in #daily-sketch.)

Usual logging rules apply: I log all “finished pieces,” and if I don’t have any for a particular day, I’ll just log the best or most interesting art I did. Not an exhaustive list.

• July 1: Various sketches in pen + crayon. Colorful fish, a snake & a snail, a tree.
• July 1: Pen sketches of an important lore event: the mouse in the house who got caught and put in a bag, then escaped.
• July 2: Various sketches in pen + crayon. Colorful fish (catfish/koi inspired); ducks, leaves, and bees about to get eaten by an enormous crocodile.
• July 2-3: Various sketches in pen + crayon. A ghost saying "boo" to a firefly; a green dragon busting out of a purple truck (based on the heat-changing truck in the duplo box).
• July 3: Marker + crayon drawing of cat-jellyfish in warm colors.
• July 4: Quick referenced marker sketches of fish (marlin, gar, angelfish, catfish, skate, salmon, turbot, butterfly fish), focusing on the variety of body shapes
• July 5: Marker + watercolor landscape. A duo of orange catfish soaring over a small mountain village.
• July 6: Watercolor. BPW fish & jellyfish swimming in a starry turquoise sky.
• July 7: Weekly meeting pen sketch. A fish with roses & leaves.
• July 8: Watercolor landscape. Grassy field, upside-down tree with white blossoms, distant birds in the sky.
• July 9-10: Colorful googly-eyed fish in pen + watercolor + crayon.
• July 11: Watercolor. Atmospheric landscape based on a LMA tutorial. Brilliant pink sunset, trees at the horizon line, water below, and grassy banks.
• July 12: Watercolor rendition of Sarah Cray's Pink Green Tree (#2). This one hews closer to the original; it’s painted edge-to-edge with a pink background (rather than a muddy dusk gradient) and background green foliage in the corners.
• July 12: Loose watercolor of koi fish (purple/mauve/orange) in a pond (indigo water, forest green kelp). Inspired by Sarah Cray’s Atmospheric Pansies.
• July 12, 19: Raid doodle in marker + crayon of a flounder saying “feel better newbie.”
• July 13: Doodle blobbing during teams session. Fish, shark, eel, jellyfish in various colors. Loose watercolor wash + pen + crayon + a bit of marker.
• July 14: Various sketches in pen (and one in marker). Fish with a ship sailing inside, a sprout blob in a house with trees outside, a large freeform fish.
• July 15: Watercolor raindrops on a glass pane, based on Sarah Cray's Fall Raindrops.
• July 16: Twin mini oceanscapes in watercolor. First is a moody gray with blue/purple overtones; second is a moody spruce/wine. From a LMA tutorial.
• July 17: Marker + crayon sketches of a purple slime, St. John’s lace, and various foliage.
• July 18: Sunset oceanscape in marker. Inspired by the July 2025 LMA calendar.
• July 20: Marker doodles of raindrops and flowers, and a pen sketch of a blob cheering on Howard (rip Howard 2026-2026).
• July 21: Watercolor of a top-down beach scene, with a rocky shore and turquoise-green waves becoming bluer the farther they get from shore. Loosely based on a LMA tutorial.
• July 22: Marker sketch of a huge koi and a tiny googly-eyed minnow thinking “training arc time.”
• July 23: Mountain wildflower landscape. Marker + water + BPW (clouds & white blossoms).
• July 24: Various pen doodles. Anthro bunny, camel-like creature, landscape concept thumbnail.
• July 25: Watercolor landscape. A pathway wending its way through a grassy area dotted with bushes and trees, under cloudy red skies. Loosely inspired by Sarah Cray’s Spring Pathway.
• July 26: Watercolor of purple-mauve flowers at sunset under a cloudy sky. Based on Sarah Cray’s Dusk Purple Blooms.
• July 27: Pen doodle of a squiggle eel, and a pen + crayon doodle of an overripe bananafish.
• July 28: Pen doodle of a fluffy camel/llama.
• July 29: Watercolor of yellow flowers in a blue vase. For the bad g1 topic (stonewash/yellow/forest polkadot).
• July 29-30: Painted over the July 11 atmospheric landscape, adding general color, BPW bubbles, and a BPW goldfish. Inspired by Sarah Cray’s Cosmic Butterfly.
• July 30-31: Watercolor. Salt trees in mauve, purple, and ultramarine.

Note: July 19 is NOT missing; I colored the sketch from July 12. And a good thing too, because the very next week on July 26, newbie said he wasn’t feeling well and called raid early, and I got to post it. preparation pays off tbh

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Featured: July 9-10 googly-eyed fish; July 18 sunset oceanscape; July 23 mountain wildflowers