character design recommendations needed!! mushroom experts help!

[internetant]

hii!!

im making a game and now redesigning certain characters. I need some advice on this guy right here



some facts you probably need to know:

- he is a part of a species, that is a mix of plants and humans
- this species have their own religion based on it, where people with mushrooms are seen as bad luck for the family
- plant that one have is not genetic, it is more spiritual (it has certain reasons to be that way  )
- he is a teenager with a religios trauma, he is edgy, he is isolated and lonely, he is not perfect, he has distructive thoughts and can be pretty wild, but again he is not alone, he is not all bad and he does care. he is just a teen in a small town where trauma is normalised (after all the game is slighly about that)
- his name is enoki, it is in fact not his real name. rather a nickname (all things in the game are from the perspective of another character, thus his real name does not really matter)

I am going to probably play more with shapes, so he looks more like a mushroom himself, but right now my focus is on the colors, i need ideas of which mushroom to base him on (i dont wanna base him on enoki mushrooms that much, cause... well, they are just white/beige, while i actually want to base a color pallete of a real mushroom.

so if you have any ideas, please tell me about your mushrooms !!



now that ive written down some information about him i feel like his concept is so stupid 

[foxmosis]

I've had this tab open for a few days, I like this as a design quite a bit but I'm really curious to see the design with color, and is the torso like a cloak where the arms can tuck into or am I reading that wrong?

[internetant]

thanks!!

well, thats why i posted it in the first place, i really wanna base his colors on a real mushroom, but i dont know which one to choose.

about the cloak: yeah, but im thinking of redoing his clothes, too many other nice characters wear cloaks lately 

I chose the cloak to repeat the mushroom ring shape, but i think of maybe making it shorter and more readable

[TheFrugalGamer]

Well if you're going to base his coloring on mushrooms, you've got a LOT to choose from!

https://mushroomcoloratlas.com/

This is a neat site that has an easily browsable index of mushroom colors. I'd start by picking one or two that speak to you, then look up the mushrooms they're from and go from there.

The worldbuilding you've got here here sounds interesting--I hope your work with the game goes well!

[internetant]

https://mushroomcoloratlas.com/

This is a neat site that has an easily browsable index of mushroom colors. I'd start by picking one or two that speak to you, then look up the mushrooms they're from and go from there.

Thanks a lot! thats actually really helpful!!