Mushroom Drawings

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

The simple line of these drawings of mushrooms is the style to look for when you flip through magazines or books.

This mushroom outline is good to use even for drawing cartoon mushrooms.

What Is A Mushroom?

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

There are more than 3,000 species in the world. More than 2,000 are non-poisonous and safe to eat. Others are poisonous or taste terrible.

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

There is a lot of variety in mushroom size and color.

Mushrooms that are poisonous are commonly called toadstools.

This is a drawing of table mushrooms that we buy.

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

Some mushrooms have a veil that grows over the gills or tubes and this veil tears as the mushroom gets bigger. It is the veil that you can see sometimes, that is attached to the stalk.

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.

In actual fact, the fairy ring develops because the mushrooms' roots grow outward from the center of the ring. The mushrooms form an expanding circle.

Mushroom Memories

This is a field mushroom.

I remember when we were kids, my sister and I used to cook mushrooms on an outdoor barbeque that we made from bricks and a grill.

We would always ask Mum if the mushrooms were safe to eat.
Mum would put a little dollop of butter on each mushroom for us. To this day, I still love cooked mushrooms.

Improve With Practice

Below is a parasol mushroom. It is egg-shaped at first with a double white ring between the cap and stem.

As the fungus grows, the cap opens and looks bell-shaped.

Later, it looks like a parasol.

The cap is a dirty white covered with large shaggy brown scales and its flesh is white.

These mushroom drawings certainly look different from the ones I did when I began to draw.

This is one of my first mushroom drawings when I started building this site and that's a few years ago now.

It used to reside on my home page. Isn't it great to look back and compare?

I am really enjoying this artistic journey. Please join me and make this positive change in your life. Give yourself an easy start by copying these drawings of mushrooms and continue practicing.

The cartoon mushrooms can be used in any fantasy drawings you might like to create.