This was one of my first fully completed ink pen drawings. I had dabbled a bit on and off in the past but it was during the pandemic I really got into getting lost in the details as a way to calm my mind.
I like to walk in forests and if I'm lucky I can stumble across some mushrooms. I find them fascinating to look at, they definitely have a magical quality.
This artwork was drawn from my imagination, so the mushrooms are not meant to be totally realistic. They're loosely based on real ones. I was enjoying playing with the form of them against a background of other forest flora.
I found much satisfaction in creating all the scribbles, wiggles, dots and lines which I love to use to create texture and shadow.
I lost count of how many hours I spent on this one. It was done over a few months, dipping in and out over time. So it's probably quite a lot of hours of scribbling away!