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Published: 2017-09-18 19:15:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 529; Favourites: 59; Downloads: 0
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I'm really enjoying drawing these mushrooms! It's a good training for working with fineliners, too.These two Amanitaceae are rated as "lethal", so watch out!
As reference, I used a mushroom compact guide, but relied more on the descriptions.
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Fabriano Watercolour Book (300g/m2) 0.5 mechanical pencil Koh-I-Noor watercolour pencils Erasers 0.2 and 0.05 finelinerInstagram | Commissions Info | Gallery | Society6 | Redbubble
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I have a feeling like I know both of them ^^.
I quite like both of them in your drawing - but the right one a bit more. Because of that yellow "dot" - you wonderfully blended it into the white background!
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Thanks!
Loved doing these two :3
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Again very interesting and informative! I really like the style you did these in~ Very nice!
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You're very welcome
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^u^ Definitely seen these species around before--always knew better than to touch them. XDĀ
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Really? That's interesting! Hope they look at least similar
The only species I've seen around it's of edible ones.
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8D Oh, they're very accurate!Ā
^u^ I decided to learn a lot of the dangerous and edible mushrooms the year I started going morel-hunting. XD Very important knowledge for that!Ā
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That's a relief! I'm using more the descriptions written in the book for these drawings - the pictures are just to make sure I'm not getting the color wrong.
Really, some species are quite similar!
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ouo Oh yes, using the descriptions moreso than the photos or drawings is a good idea--sometimes the pictures will show a somewhat abnormal specimen and not have some of the typical traits obvious. >u< Made that mistake a few times.Ā
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Yeah, luckily the descriptions have the growth phases so I can draw a little one and a grown one. There are also some varieties, and those are listed as well!
For example, for the amanita phalloides it said there are various ranges of colors for the cap (or whatever is called, I know those names in Italian xD ), from white to green, with olive tones as well! That's crazy. And scaring, too.
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:0 Oh yes, I've seen different-looking colors on that one in particular (it's fairly common where I live, actually) with most looking exactly like you've shown it. But I've seen some that were almost white as well that you could only tell were still phalloides by the gill skirt and general shape.Ā
XD Some of the false morels (which range from being able to make people pretty sick for 48 hours to being lethal) look EXACTLY like the edible species... with the only exception being average size and a distinct shape of the cap. Same color, same range and same growing season too!
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You seem to live in a very dangerous area, concerning mushrooms
Oh yes, I've just looked up the Morchellaceae family and there's this "Gyromitra esculenta" that I'll be drawing. Even the common italian name is something that can be translated as "false morel", so it might be the same species that you're mentioning. I'm also reading some more info from the edible ones and seems that you can't eat a lot of these mushrooms and not too often, even if they're edible, and that you need to get them when they're not fully mature.
I'm learning a lot from this series, I love eating mushrooms but know so little about them! xD
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8D Oh yes--it's a very mushroom-rich area in the mountains! The only downside being there are so many dangerous ones to learn! (But the upside is there are over 20 very tasty edible species within a short walk of most neighborhoods ^^).
Ah, that one is commonly known as the False Black Morel here--there's another even more convincing False Morel that's more cone-shaped and much paler in general, though I don't know the scientific name for that one. The only way to avoid that one is to never pick any morels taller than six inches and wider than 2 inches (since the false one starts out bulbous and only looks like a morel when it matures).Ā
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Ooh you live by the mountains!
I leave in an area that's somehow near the beach, so no mushrooms for me unless I buy them xD
Hmm, so since it's paler it really looks similar to the other morels
The False black morel seems quite recognizable, luckily.
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But if you live near the beach there's still hope! Just so long as you search far enough inland that the groundwater isn't salty you should find at least some common specimens. ^^
Yep, I almost got fooled my first time morel-hunting by one of those, but thankfully I checked in with an expert who showed me what the differences were. It's one of the Verpa genus, I remember. 
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Hmm, not sure if I could, my city actually was a swamp, centuries ago, and some kilometers away there's also a salt pan with a living colony of flamingos.
But surely in the inner part of the region (that is mountains), there are lot of mushrooms to be found
So scary 
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if I eat one can I level up xD awesome art <3
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Nope, you'll probably lose one life and have to restart the level: these two bad boys are more lethal than the super known Amanita Muscaria
Thank you!
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