Practicing with simple line drawings is a great way to understand the shape of the different mushrooms and improve your skills
Drawing of a colorful mushroom
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how to draw a mushroom step by step
To draw this colorful Mushroom, I used Tombow Dual Brush Pens
- With the Color 910, draw the stalk/ stump for the mushroom first.
- With Color 912, draw the underside of the mushroom in
- Draw circle outlines with the Color 845 and then color them on the top of the mushroom. I love how this red color looks!
- Finally, add a few springs of grass with the Color 177
- With the MONO Drawing Pen, draw thin radiating lines to finish off the mushroom!
Anothe drawing of A mushroom
Here is another way to draw a mushroom, start with a base stalk or stem. Add a few frills on top, and then the mushroom head. Finish off with dots to fill the mushroom! Now, wasn’t that easy?
MUSHROOM DRAWING EASY:
Click here for this printable guide for the Mushroom
Top tips for mushroom drawing
- Good things come in threes: You’ll learn how to draw a cluster of three mushrooms in total, each at a different stage of growth. Drawing three mushrooms will make the picture feel balanced (the rule of three applies in any drawing).
- Vary your mushroom shapes: The Fly Agaric mushroom varies in shape and size, so it’s interesting to showcase several different examples in your mushroom drawing.
- Sketch your outlines using light pressure: You’ll start by roughly sketching out the basic mushroom shapes with a soft pencil. Use light pressure so that you can easily erase the lines to make corrections. After sketching out all the key shapes, you will then begin to add layers of colour using colouring pencils.
- Begin with your lightest colour: When colouring, gradually build layers of colour, starting with the lightest colour first. This gives lots of depth to your colours.
- Choose the right paper: A smooth surfaced cartridge paper will work best for this project.
Cartridge paper
For this mushroom drawing tutorial, use A3 200 gsm cartridge paper, which you can get from any local art shop.
Colouring Pencils
Our mushroom drawing was created using a combination of Caran d’ache watercolour crayons, which are soft and blendable. The colours in this range are vibrant and bright.
The Derwent ‘Drawing’ range is also brilliant, because they are so creamy and blendable. This set has a nature-inspired woodland colour palette.
Rubber
We’d also recommend this Faber and Castell rubber, which lifts colour off the page without smudging. It’s green, which is strange but it works.
How to draw a mushroom
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You Will Need
- A soft sketching pencil , A HB or 2B pencil
- Rubber
- Pencil sharpener
- A4 or A3 cartridge paper , Choose paper with a soft grain
- Coloured pencils , Reds, oranges, yellows, light grey, dark grey, light brown, dark brown, dark blue, light greens, dark greens
- Electric rubber , Optional
Total time:
An afternoon
Sketching a light outline of your mushroom
Step 1
Drawing the mushroom’s iconic cap
We’re going to draw a fully grown mushroom at the centre of the page, which will be the starring feature of your picture.
A mature mushroom has a wide, flatter cap with gills visible underneath. We’ll add the gills and the spots at a later stage.
First, draw the outline of the cap (the top of the mushroom), which is long and narrow. Press lightly with your pencil so that you can easily erase the lines to make any corrections.
Draw a big curved line underneath for the white underside of the mushroom cap.
Step 2
Support the cap with a slender stalk
Draw a horizontal, downward curving line across the centre of the underside of the cap. This will be where the stem joins onto the cap.
Now, sketch two lines going down for the top part of the stem. Curve these lines slightly so the mushroom appears to tilt. This will give it a more organic form.
Next add the skirt, which is the little frilly bit around the stem. Extend the rest of the stem so that it meets the ground.
