Mushroom Drawings

These mushroom drawings are so nice and easy to copy if you are just starting to draw.

After all, I created these drawings when I wasn't feeling entirely confident so if I can do it, I'm pretty sure you can, too!

We tell ourselves we can't do certain things but if we put in the effort, anything is possible. It is an amazing feeling when you prove yourself wrong!

If you are about to start teaching yourself to draw, the simple line of these images is the style to look for when you flip through magazines or books for reference pictures.

This mushroom outline is a good example to use if you want to illustrate a cartoon style or even for fantasy drawings.

What Is A Mushroom?

It is an umbrella shaped fungi which consists of a stalk with a rounded cap.

There are more than 3,000 species in the world with more than 2,000 being non-poisonous and safe to eat. The remainder are poisonous or taste terrible.

This is a drawing of common mushrooms that are too small to be of any use in cooking.

There is a lot of variety in size and color of this natural fungus growth.

The poisonous ones are commonly called toadstools.

Most mushrooms have gills, like thin walls, under the cap and others have tubes.

Some of them have a veil that grows over the gills or tubes and this veil tears as it gets bigger. It's the veil that you can see sometimes, when it's still attached to the stalk.

The image on the left is a drawing of table mushrooms that we normally buy for creative cooking.

When you practice copying these mushroom drawings, you come to know the main parts and features that will help you depict this subject properly.

Please don't wait for inspiration to come visiting you, be motivated to learn and make yourself draw anything and everything that appeals to you. In my opinion, that is the trick to becoming good at drawing.

Fairy Rings Of Mushrooms

Long ago, people believed that fairy rings of mushrooms were formed by footprints left by fairies dancing at night.

The mushrooms were said to be the seats for the tired fairies.

I don't mean to spoil the fantasy of legends but, in actual fact, the fairy ring develops because the roots grow outward from the center of the ring and they then form an expanding circle.