Mushroom House

This is my most recent personal project. I would love to hear your thoughts on how I can improve. Thanks for looking!

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I have pictures of the red cap mushroom as a textures has some growing where I take dogs for a walk
Reply if you would like the photos.

I am creating the mushroom my self but I can send you a copy if it would help


i think this project deserves to be featured

Looks great! I like the mood of the image.
About what you could improve, I would mention 2 things:
The stones on the house show a visible repetition. You could fix that with a little bit of uv tweaking.
The other thing I noticed is the edge and lower side of the large mushroom. The edge looks quite soft, as it would not have enough geometry. Additionally I noticed on photos of those mushrooms, that the distribution of the white speckles is different on the top of the hat than on the edge. The edge usually has additionally some more smaller speckles. This would also help with the soft edge. Your speckles look to go into the surface, while real ones sit on top of the surface (not sure whether that might have been a conscious decision by you… If so, then it’s fine). Additionally I’d like to point you to the lower surface of the mushroom. Usually they have gills. Maybe you could add some bump map to emulate them? At the moment it looks very smooth. All in all, the details of the mushroom are a level below the details of the test of the scene. That’s why I think you could improve that area.
Anyhow if like to repeat what I said at the beginning (to not let the improvement remarks take up the most of the space in my post :-))… I really like the image!