I finally made this thing! 😊

The journal of video game botany, mycology and lichenology : issue 1 - the fungi of AC Valhalla

This is a guide to the 5 fungi that players can interact with, and some of the other fungi and lichens found in the landscape of the game. It's got my ink illustrations inside, and a detailed pencil illustration on the cover. The first few copies come with a mini-print of 6 different drawings I made of one fungi, blackish-purple russula. I live in the UK so the species in this game are familiar to me.

Find it in my store at lycomorpha.etsy.com

Issue 2 will be on HZD, and the process Maria and I used to botanise the flora there. It's nearly ready, so it should be out this month!

Issue 3 might be on the weirdly fun mixture of real and imaginary flora of Baldur's Gate 3. There's so much seemingly familiar botany there that turns out to be anything but, and I kinda love it

Finished my Leicestershire/Ledercestrescire fern page for Eivor's herbarium after the WIP I posted last wkend! Will tidy up the scan and write the things later. Just glad to have finished somthing tbh... Life is a bit fkd up rn. So I am taking comfort in video game botany as always :)

It was kinda hard to pick words (I ain't no poet) and to keep the lettering consistent on this page. The pressed fern was large and didn't fit in one piece either. But it still made me happy to do.

Other plants I want to include for this county are flowers from Skari's island at Repton, and wood avens from the ruins at Venonis

The Mycology of AC Valhalla

Sketches of all the interactable fungi in ACV, with their in game and IRL counterparts (for the fungi I see locally.)

Been going through my video game botany drawings. Thinking of collecting these sketches, making 3 more of non-interactable common fungi we see in ACV - tinder fungus, turkey tails, birch polypore - & putting them in a zine. (I've been going through my 'moths of Ravensthorpe' drawings too. Getting my 💩 together so I can finally take these zines to my next fair!)

If I can do 8 fungi I can easily make a zine with fungi art on one side and some species info on the other.

Wildflowers of Ireland in the half-light