#mycology illustration

[the-distantprince]

Here are some of the illustrations I’ve done so far (i should add perithecia)! I have Lichens of the North Woods by Joe Walewski. I wish I got a guide that covers New York better.

I have yeast on there as it’s an example of a symbiotic partner that’s not part of the standard pair or triad. It’s a Tremella yeast that is in a symbiotic relationship with and the yellow green lichen Lethara vulpina on the left (as I understand it)

Hi I’m planning out a lichen zine. I’m hoping to have an approachable but more in depth little booklet. Do you have any suggestions for what info I should include and what I can cut?

I’m torn on using specific names for things like reproductive structures and going into more of the subtypes of body structures.

This is a debate I (and many other lichenologists) have all the time within ourselves. They are so so many specific terms. And there are specific terms to describe those specific terms. And it never ends. So where to meet in the middle? A few terms I think are necessary to introduce:

Symbiosis

Mycobiont (Ascomycete) and Photobiont (green algae vs cyanobacteria)

Thallus, its layers (cortex, photobiont layer, medulla, rhizines), and the major growth forms (foliose, fruticose, crustose, squamulose)

Ascoma/fruiting bodies (apothecia and perithecia)

Asexual propagules (isidia, soredia, phyllidia)

Substrate (corticolous, saxicolous, terricolous)

I have a great little lichen field guide written by Dr. Erin Tripp, Field Guide to the Lichens of White Rocks (Boulder, Colorado), that I bought specifically because I think she does a masterful job of balancing accuracy and approachability. I recommend checking it out! Good luck! Sounds like a great project! Consider me an enthusiastic supporter.

[starryspectre]

It's fungi season!! Don't eat these, you'll die

[annfryart]

Foraging Finds

[hagofbolding]

Illustrating some literal mushroom names in anticipation of baby's first convention season (as an independent artist)

Here's 1 out of 3 - Chicken of the Woods!

Come see me at VanCAF in May if you like chickens and/or mushrooms. I'll have stickers and postcards and other art toooo

[daily-dragon-drawing]

mushroom dragon?

#105 - 魔菇 (mógū / magic shroom) - You may see her hanging out in a forest after a rainy day! 🍄🤎🪵

[bookiechu]

Fungis of Faerûn!! Painted with gouache. 🍄

[layaart]

fungi books 🍄

[amandaherzman]

fungi of the forest 🍄✨

[randommelan]

Lil’ mushroom witch going about her daily life. She’s either napping in the woods with her mossy camouflage cape or studying spells to better use magic.

These two drawings are used for the sticker sheet from my May Patreon design “Mycology.”

[leafycollages]

strawberries

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[thefugitivesaint]

Val W. Starnes, ''Toadstools, Mushrooms, Fungi, Edible and Poisonous, One Thousand American Fungi'' by Charles McIlvaine & Robert K. Macadam, 1900 Source

[dariaestudio]

[btbigelow]

Hylian mycological poster! All of these assets are gonna be part of a larger botanical poster, but I wanted to make a smaller version with only the mushrooms because bitches love mushrooms (I'm bitches) You can buy it here

[hanihive]

[hagofbolding]

In the fall in the Pacific Northwest, you might find this very tiny dragon jealously guarding its hoard of fungus in the old growth forests

My biggest risograph to date, 11 x 17"! The colors almost hurt to look at irl :') I love this medium

Prints available!

[diaphonizedcadaver]

The Student's Cyclopedia Volume II C.B Beach, M.A. (C.B. Beach & Company, New York and Chicago)II:849

“The name of several classes of fungi. The best known is the common mushroom. It has a fleshy head, smooth or scaly on the upper surface, varying from white to tawny shades or brown. The gills on the under side of the head are at first pallid, changing slowly with the plant’s growth to pink, purple and brown-black.” — Beach, 1900

Hand embroidered, edit; SOLD, commissions open