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lizzywanders
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Illustrator & character designer
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♡ fungi ⚘ lichens ⚘ moss ♡

⟢ All photos are mine ⟣
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Frozen in time ❄️
Closeup shot of a budding branch covered in icy snow. Out of focus in the background a canal with late afternoon sun reflected in the water.
January 8, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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My best work of 2026
A tiny snow buddy with sticks for arms pointing up, a short twig nose and broken pumpkin seeds as eyes. It’s looking sad, funny and excited at the same time.
January 4, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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Wishing you all a sparkly and cozy new year
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Macro shot of a few minuscule bonnet mushrooms with glowing white, hood-shaped caps and sparkly, translucent, curved stems growing up a dark furrow in a tree covered in moss.
January 1, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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Cozy times 🍂🌲
Two small bonnet mushrooms with cone-shaped caps and brown stems stick out among thick fallen pine needle branches on a woodland floor. Their faintly striped caps fade from light brown to a whitish serrated edge. The warm brown colors and pine needles make the scene feel very cozy.
December 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Tall beauty & a tiny friend 🍂
A single tiny mycena mushroom with a cream-colored, umbonate cap and a long, hollow beige stem grows among autumn leaves on a forest floor. There’s a minuscule fungus gnat with long antennae perched upside down on the edge of the cap.
December 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I love that I have so many of my own nature photo as refs and inspiration for art that I’m making. This way I can avoid all the fake ugly slop that’s invading the net. Good life hack 🌿
Collection of nine closeup photos I took of nature scenes. Most feature the pixie cup lichen with tall light green stalks gradually flaring into goblet-shaped cups growing from a leafy patch on rotting wood. There’s one macro shot of a yellow-green inchworm looking like a mini brachiosaurus.
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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I pressed some ginkgo leaves I found during a walk a few weeks ago. They’re so pretty! 🍂
Three pressed ginkgo leaves of various sizes are laid out on a sketchbook. They are fan-shaped with veins radiating out into the leaf blade and have that beautiful autumn deep saffron yellow color.
December 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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These drawings are amazing. Miyamoto quote from an interview: “I was a rather analog person and did not know anything about technology. So, I learned how the screen was displayed from an in-house engineer. That's how I started doing pixel art.”
Some of Miyamoto's early drawings of Mario for the original Donkey Kong. There are color sprites of Mario walking, Paulina and Donkey Kong, and various sketches. An early Super Mario Bros. sprite concept design sheet, with Mario's skidding sprite, an arms crossed pose, a jumping pose and him holding something in his hands.
November 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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My art space is on the other side of this room :) #acnh
Screenshot of another part of the attic in my Animal Crossing house. It’s a very cozy, dimly lit art space with antique brown furniture and tall windows. In front is a table with modeling clay and a sculpted dino, there’s a wooden sewing box in the right corner and an art canvas with my rendition of Jiji (Kiki’s cat) on the left. My player character is sitting in an old school chair looking off into the distance in front of a desk that has a drawing board with my illustration of a fall tree.
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Cozy day 🫖🧶
Screenshot of the attic in my Animal Crossing house. It’s a very cozy dimly lit room with antique furniture, a furnace and tall windows. My player character, wearing a cream acorn knit cap, round glasses and cute brown dress, is dozing off on an old leather couch. In front is a low wooden table with a knitted tea cosy and pencil holder shaped like a house.
November 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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A cozy bunch 🌿
Close side view of a dense cluster of sulphur tuft mushrooms trailing up the bottom of an old fallen tree covered in thick patches of wet moss. They have conical caps with orange centers fading to a pale orange margin and curved, light yellow stems.
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Mushroom mural 🪵
A cluster of mycena mushrooms grows out of a gnarly rotting log. They have conical to flat rosy beige caps, yellowish to brown stems and a speckled, fuzzy white base. A tiny one has fallen over showing off its prominent gills.
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Petite mush 🌱🍂
Macro shot of a single minuscule bonnet mushroom growing among faded leaf duff on a forest floor. It has a glowing white, umbrella-shaped cap and a tall, wavy, hollow stem fading from sparkly white to golden brown.
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Amethyst laccaria 💜🦎
A tiny amethyst deceiver mushroom with a purple droopy cap and irregular edge has its long fibrous purple stem wrapped around its base. It’s growing on a mossy hill in the forest. Its profile looks like a lizard pokémon with a long tail.
November 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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🌿🪴 🐾
Closeup of a mini garden I build with Lego pieces using tiny round green plates, plants and brown tree stumps on mossy hills. The focus is on a brown bicolor ragdoll cat minifigure crouched and ready to pounce. It has blue eyes and is looking kind of sad or constipated.
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Love these lil’ weirdos 🙌🗿🤖
November 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Needed a simple compact MP3 player and remembered I still have this Samsung YP-U2. Plug-in USB to charge, almost 20 years old and still works! Love the little loading screen :D
The Samsung YP-U2 digital audio player, a compact white UBD drive with a 1" 128x64 negative (white font, black background) LCD screen saying “SYSTEM-LOADING 40%” and a progress bar of 5 squares with 2 filled in. Plugged-in earbud headphones are light wood with burgundy ear tips and a paradord cable.
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Some spooky weirdos 🍂👻
A cluster of brownish bonnet mushrooms with yellow-brown stems grows inside a big hole of a huge decaying log. Their conical caps are covered in bonnet pin mold (Spinellus fusiger), long, branching, filamentous structures that bear a sporangium. A cluster of old, decaying sulphur tuft mushrooms are growing inside the hollow of a gnarly rotting tree. They have dark orange, dried convex caps and fibrous, pale orange stems. Closeup of a slate grey saddle fungus (Helvella lacunosa) with an irregularly shaped, wrinkled, waxy grey cap and a fluted pale grey stem growing among autumn leaves.
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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The ACNH update is coming at the right time, was just thinking about starting it up again. Being able to create slumber islands fits my play style more since I don’t want to terraform my own island much. And I love Kapp’n, decorating and anything Splatoon, so those additions are very welcome :)
Screenshot of one the rooms in my Animal Crossing: New Horizons house. It’s a very relaxing nature-themed space with warm brown wooden floor and furniture, soft lighting, plants, and a wall full of natural gyroids on shelves. My player character, wearing a cream acorn knit cap and round brown glasses, is sitting on a wooden plank that’s crossing a small indoor garden pond with white lotus flower.
November 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Spooky shrooms 🍁👻🎃
A collage of four spooky, moody mushroom photos. 1: A mushroom (possibly hare’s foot inkcap) with a conical dark grey cap covered in whitish fibrous speckles and a slanted white stalk. 2: A mushroom with a wet orange cap and tiny knob and pale orange stem grows from dark rotting wood. 3: Five elongated upright, club-shaped, black fungi (dead man’s fingers) arise out of a dark rotting log. 4: A cluster of candlesnuff fungi, erect and elongated black branches with a grayish middle and twisted whitened tips.
October 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Cutie puff 🍂
A tiny gem-studded puffball mushroom leans above warm brown leaves on a forest floor. It has a spherical cream-colored top covered in short spiny brownish bumps tapering to a bulbous whitish stalk.
October 31, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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A cozy bunch 🍂🍁
A cluster of light brown mushrooms grows in front of a mossy tree among fallen orange and brown leaves in a forest. They have wet, flat, droopy caps and some show a ring (remnant of a veil) high up on the stalk.
October 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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𖥧𖤣 lichen forest 𖤣𖥧
Focus shot of a cluster of common powderhorn lichen growing on the side of a stump. This fruticose lichen has elongated, narrow, slightly curved, pointy grey-green stalks (podetia) arising from patches of small, overlapping, crinkly green scales (squamules) at the base.
October 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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..over by mossy lane 🌱
Low macro shot of an opening in a fence with moss growing on the ends of two wooden beams on top of a steel grey frame covered in raindrops. It looks like a pathway with walls of moss.
October 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Touching some moss 🌿
A patch of foliose lichen is starting to grow over top of some pillowy moss on a decaying wooden beam. The lichen has a crusty bluish-grey center branching out into pale yellowish green leafy lobes with moss sporophytes coming through.
October 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM