Felt-tip Sketches: Original Characters

I have related some aspects of quirkiness from the artist's drawings I've seen and came up with characters from my own imagination. The following are mystical creatures, quickly drawn with a sepia felt-tip pen, and focusing mainly on the lines and dynamism of the cross-hatching to create depth. 

 I tried to add some aspects of humour into this. The characteristics of these creatures bare a few similarities with the shape of mushrooms. 

The same inspiration I extracted from plants were used on the following two sketches, with hints of scarecrow features in them. The effect can almost be quite humourous...

...Or maybe frightening.