Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚！

And for Day 30 of #SciArtSeptember #Carbon, I give my thanks to the life around us — and to wonderful #SciArt friends like @lizlagomorph.bsky.social who bring us all together in creative joy. Live long and prosper, peace and long life, my fellow carbon-based lifeforms 🖖🧡🦑🐡🧪

ok - lets make Sunday the Opah day :)

Than it has to be this week. Just looked ... last year it was the 27th October

I'm not sure exactly when it is other than around October?

Don't tell me I missed it AGAIN 😱.

Oh no is it Opah day again? @lampichthys.bsky.social @greyauk.bsky.social @betterknowafish.bsky.social #sundayfishsketch

Very late #SundayFishSketch (it's still Sunday in the middle of the Pacific Ocean!) but here's an onagai snapper drawn from memory. 🐡🦑🧪

It's time for another #sundayfishsketch as I continue to box off the last few additions to my A-Z of sharks.

The final head-on sketches of Wisconsin fishes. Now I'm going to have to find new topics.... Or sketch dorsal fins? #SundayFishSketch

First #SundayFishSketch in a while bc I've been thinking a lot about Snuffleupagus 🐡🦑

#SundayFishSketch this week is some first experimentations with linocutting. I’ve been wanting to try it for ages and finally picked up the necessary stuff at my local art supply store. I started small to not waste while I learn but I think that made it harder oops

I was hoping to get this chap finished by today but it didn't happen. It'll be finished soon enough ❤️🦀 #SundayFishSketch #SciArt #NatureArt #naturalhistory #art

Played around with watercolor pencils for this week’s #SundayFishSketch. Golden shiner for my continued “draw all the Kansas fish” project.

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

It’s always fun to revisit an old-favorite field site, especially on a beautiful day. 😎🌊

Miss. Oarfish／リュウグウノツカイ嬢(2023) #hinemizushima #oarfish #art #水島ひね #リュウグウノツカイ

#SundayFishSketch 🐠🐟And the series is now complete! Here is a selection of 21 pycnodont fish, showing their diversity through time Species in the Alt text #paleoart

#SundayFishSketch 🐠Fourth page completed! Featuring Polazzodus coronatus, Serrasalmimus secans and Pycnodus apodus #paleoart

Chubs^4 Quick watercolor sketches for “draw all the Kansas fish” self-imposed project. #SundayFishSketch #watercolor #fishart

I've not done a #sundayfishsketch for a while, or any fish sketch for that matter. But I started an A-Z of sharks a while ago am I'm determined to get it finished now. Today I did "T". It had to be the Tiger Shark. #sharks

Brook Trout for #SundayFishSketch. Getting close to the end of head-on Wisconsin fishes.

Thank you!

Can I get a fish expert, either illustrator, scientist, or outdoors person familiar with anatomy who I can email my sketch of a Sacramento perch to check the gill cover/facial anatomy of art I’m doing for park signage? Fish are still a new-ish subject for me and I need fresh eyes plz. #SciArt 🐟

love all my new followers

Red Fox 🦊 D29: Pelt #SciArtSeptember #sciart #foxart #digitalillustration

I get the whole pharma ad schtick of "Teach the consumer the technical name of an ailment so they think it's a new thing science only discovered" but it's such an ironic ways #SciComm reaches mass audiences—for all the wrong emphasis/reasons. Makes me miss teaching my old #AdSciComm workshops 🧪

Just caught this ad from Tarsus Pharmaceuticals (what a name). The cat utters "Demodex Blepharitis" and tut-tuts "Call an eye doctor to see if you have mites" and ad tagline "Blame the Mites!" But... humans all have Demodex mites!!! Another #SciComm headache inbound: www.ispot.tv/ad/giuO/tars... 🧪

Common Linnet 🐦🎶 D28: Linen #SciArtSeptember #sciart #birdart #digitalillustration

Back to this guy #SundayFishSketch I'm making all the deep sea fish to scale at the moment to get a feeling for how big they acually are. This is a bigger one 😅 (1.15m)

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Spotted sucker for #SundayFishSketch. I don't think it's frowning, just pensive.

Slowly working on a couple of ribbon eel pieces, started inking a sketchbook spread. Wrists are feeling sore and stiff. Stretching, hydrating and taking lots of rest in between. #SundayFishSketch #WIP #FishArt #ink #TradArt #SciArt 🎨🐡

very quick Pacific Blue Eye for #SundayFishSketch. These are a little Australian native freshwater fish people keep in aquaria.

#SundayFishSketch #paleoart Now on the last batch, this last page will only have 3 fish: Polazzodus, Serrasalmimus and Pycnodus Almost done!

Got the nose-end totally wrong, but it’s a sketch. Sturgeon chub for “draw all the Kansas fish” self-imposed challenge and #SundayFishSketch Ink + colored pencil

#SundayFishSketch is a Yellowtail Wrasse (Coris gaimard) that I’ve been working on as a thank you for the U of M collections manager for taking down (and rifling through) so many nasty coffin tanks for me (sorry Ben 😂). Might yet poke at this a bit more we’ll see

For this #sundayfishsketch I present a couple young brown trout (Salmo trutta) hanging out by the rocks and vegetation in this underwater scene. #fish #freshwater #trout #sciart

A guppy rough sketch just in time for #sundayfishsketch #fishart #guppy

Sturgeon time #SundayFishSketch #sciart

Just now I learned there's a genus of "ribbongoby" thanks to photos posted by IG user @konatsu0898! Here's one Oxymetopon compressus for #SundayFishSketch 🦑🐡🧪

As if the *sharks* are the problem??? (I have empathy for fishing-dependent communities but this is literally the corollary of logging old-growth forests) 🦑🧪

“Meeting Cerberus is the first surprise you encounter after dying.” I’m practicing watercolor again 😂 #inktober

Jade Tree Snake 🐍💚 D25: Jade #SciArtSeptember #sciart #snakeart #digitalillustration

Juniper Hairstreak Butterfly 🦋 D26: Cedar #SciArtSeptember #sciart #butterflyart #digitalillustration

Short-nosed Echidna 🦔 D27: Quill #SciArtSeptember #sciart #digitalillustration

👀 Must be the season of the fish. Squidfacts.net