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Acknowledgement Introduction

Mushroom has always been a fun guy by looking so strange and fascinating to
My name is Adlina Afiqah or the author and artist that created this book
look at . There is countless variations of mushrooms and fungus that grew its way
specified in the art of mushroom illustration .I was able to pursue my degree
into the world with different shapes , colour and sizes. I chose mushrooms to
in graphic design and this is the first major project thus far.The time i have
be a study subject is because of how alien like they look and it comes in alot of
spent on this book has open a new pathway of discovering my ability and
colours, even black and white ones .They are a challenge to draw as they have
how to create a book.I was able to further understand on the variations of
different textures and appearence making it fun to understand the process of
technique with different mediums at the same time . This book is created as
drawing it while looking at the subject .The art of mushrooms is a compilation of
a project for the subject Illustration and creative appilcation curated by my
15 mushroom themed illustrations that is done with various mediums that is pen-
lecturer Puan Ainun Jariah Binti Yacoob in my most gratitude that has helped
cil,colour pencil,watercolour,digital art and charcoal . There will be three tech-
me in guiding and giving constructive critism that i can follow in order to have
niques for each medium that will introduce you to such as tonal ,hatching ,scrib-
a polished product.I would like to thank my friends too in sharing knowledge
bling ,dry on wet , wet on wet and some other kind of method you can use . An
and helping me with my doubts and overcoming problems .
artwork is given an explanation of the progress from start to finish ,the material

that is use , the values and colour palette will also be included.
You can follow along to the tutorial and gain the knowledge to distinguish
between techniques and how to do it.A context about the subject matter will

The Author & Illustrator also be added so that you can search it up as a reference . There will be tips on
controlling your hand pressure and how to achieve a texture .This can be used as

a guidance but in the end we all know that practice is the one that will shine your
skills. So lets begin and hope you have fun drawing .
Hello , my name is Adlina Afiqah Bt mohd
Efendy goon ,born in the year 1998 and i have

been drawing for as long i can remember .
I started to like drawing when i was a kid and
continue to grow up with being inspired by
artist and trying different kind of mediums . My
specialty is human portraits and botanical illus-
tration thus for this book i chose mushroom as Cap
my subject .Im currently pursuing graphic design
as my degree and hope im able to have a mix-
ture of both in my future work and will

continue to improve on my skills in upcoming
years .

Gills Stalk

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