Art Calendar
Other art tag lists: Art challenges, Fanart Calendar .
January:
Most notably: Lunar new year animals
- Lunar new year animal costumes
- Creatuanary (making fantasy creatures)
- A to Z challenge (drawing to match letters)
- 30 day sketchbook challenge
- Art journal January (journaling your real life)
- Public Domain Day (1st)
February:
Most notably: Valentines
- Lunar new year animal costumes
- Figuary (figure drawing)
- Faebruary/Faebuary/Fairyary (fae)
- February Faces (faces)
- The 100 Day Project (creating for 100 days)
- Hourly comics day (1st)
- Valentines day (14th) (memes and costumes)
- The annual Snow Miku event in Hokkaido (mid to late feb, followed by a design competition some time afterwards)
March:
- March of Robots (robots)
- Monster March (monsters)
- Magical March (Magical girls)
- International Women's day (8th)
- Pi day (14th)
- White Day (14th)
- Ides of March, the assassination of Julius Caesar (15th)
- International Transgender day of Visibility (31st)
April:
Most notably: April Fool's day
- Ludum Dare (online game jam competition)
- Japan International Manga Award application period - start (April to June)
- PleinAirpril (Plein air practices)
- April Fools' Day (1st)
- International Children's Book day (2nd)
- 420 day (20th)
- Earth Day (22nd)
- World Book Day (23rd)
- International Sculpture Day (last Saturday of April)
- "It's gonna be May" (recurring meme, last few days of April)
May:
Most notably: Mermay
- Mermay (mermaids)
- Munchy May (food, and thoughts)
- Dracula Daily (May 3rd - November 7th)
- Free Comic Book Day (first Saturday in May)
- International Workers' day (1st)
- World Cartoonist Day (5th)
- World Goth Day (22nd)
June:
Most notably: Pride month, general summer themed pieces
- Pride month
- Japan International Manga Award application period - End (April to June)
- Junicorn (unicorns)
- Kaijune (kaiju/big monsters)
- June in Bloom (flowers)
- Junebug (bugs)
- World Milk day (1st)
- Make a Terrible Comic Day (24th)
- Yuri day (25th)
- National Doughnut day (First friday of June)
July:
Most notably: Art Fight
- Art Fight (drawing others' OCs)
- Kaijuly (kaiju)
- Julycanthrophy (wolves and werewolves)
- World Watercolor Month (watercolours)
- Ice cream day (20th)
August:
- Smaugust (Smaug from the Hobbit)
- Yaoi day/801 day (1st)
- Colouring book day (2nd)
September:
- Sketchtember (sketching)
- Swordtember (swords)
- International Bisexual day of visibility (23rd)
October:
Most notably: Halloween, Inktober and its many alternatives
- Inktober (using ink or digitally inking works)
- Sketchtober (sketching)
- Drawtober (halloween themed subjects)
- Drawlloween (halloween themed subjects)
- Goretober (gore)
- OCtober (ocs)
- "It's October 3rd" (Mean Girls day)
- 24-hour comics day (5th) (create a 24 pages in 24 hours)
- International Animation Day (28th)
- Halloween (31st), memes and costumes
November:
- NaNoWriMo (+alternatives)
- Huevember (limited colours)
- Slowvember
- Dinovember (dinosaurs)
- No Nut November
- Pocky day/Pepero day/Pretz day (11/11)
- International Men's day (19th)
December:
Most notably: Year in rewind collages
- Drawcember (daily drawing challenge)
- Favcember (drawing your favourites)
- Decembird (birds)
- DnDcember (dungeons and dragons)
- Year in rewind New years collages of art from each month
- Pantone of the Year announcement (5th)