I’ve been wanting to do something with mushrooms since a while ago. And since I’ve been making a series of toon-ish 3D renders/illustrations based on plants, I decided the next ones would be with mushrooms. (for some reason, I’m liking designing alien/fantasy plants a lot!) I wanted to make a mushroom just a tad different from the usual, so first I designed way more round than the usual ones. It’s almost like a ballon. But then that wasn’t enough, I needed something to make them different. I thought about layers, multiple caps on the same mushroom, colors, glows, even tentacles. And then one day I was taking a bath and found inspiration on the mos unlikely object: the drainage in the bathtub, which looks something like this: So I came with the idea of the mushroom developing holes on the […]