[W.I.P] Mushroom Man

[Generic]

Decided to start working on a possible avatar. At first it was just going to be a generic mushroom but I decided to give it a little twist and make him look a bit evil. I'm trying to use a grungry dither style but I'm very bad at dithering and this is where I need some help. Edits and crits are more than welcome. Oh and before anyone says anything, the outline will be recolored eventually.

[That One Guy]

Looks a little bit.. Phallic... Unless you were going for that. (for some reason?)

Either way, good job so far..

[Generic]

Haha well I wasn't exactly aiming for it to be phallic, but most mushrooms seem phallic as is.

[Gil]

The first thing that came to mind when I opened this thread was "Penis?" . So yeah, it might be a little too phallic...

[9_6]

I wouldn't use that as an avatar because it looks too much like a... penis.
Make the cap wider, that should fix it.

[Generic]

That makes me want to use it more  . I'll have to go back and widen the cap though if it bothers you guys.

[ep]

If you had given it shoulders (or oversized breasts) I would have thought the similarity was entirely on purpose, but I think that even if you don't care if it looks like the end of a penis it doesn't resemble a mushroom which would imply a change of sorts is needed.

The face down section of it looks rather flat, and I think it could stand with a bit more curve.
You also have an extra bit of light coming from the left that isn't hitting the shroomhead but is hitting the "body" section.

[Generic]

Perhaps this is less phallic?

[Alucard]

Worse 

[Generic]

Well then maybe you could tell or show me what I'm doing wrong instead of just saying worse.

[Alucard]

The top needs to be wider like this

[AlienQuark]

Alucard beat me to it (sorta):


 

[Generic]

Alrighty thanks guys. I'm more of a visual learner than anything so the pictures help. I'll post what I've got done soon.

Edit - Not sure if double posting is frowned upon here so I'll just edit my post for the time being. Here is what I have come up with so far. I went with a different shape than you guys posted and decided to use somewhat of a bolete shape. The shading is just a filler incase anyone else sees an error. Again thanks for the help so far and any future help.

[philipptr]

Doesn't look very "phallic" anymore but doesn't look like a mushroom either. I think you won't come around changing the shape to be wider, because well that's how most mushrooms look like (maybe an image search helps: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=mushroom&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2 tons of references )

[zeid]

Well i dont see the big deal, actually i think it would be funny to have a phallic looking avatar as long as it is subtle and not direct.
real quick edit to try and 'fix' the issue, just to show some form.

[Generic]

Ah that looks a lot better zeid. Thanks a lot. Here is the latest update incorpating the shape change based on zeid's edit. Thanks. Oh and the shading is still just a placeholder incase anyone point's out errors.



Oh and thanks for the references phillipptr. I actually was using a reference based off a bolete cap.