Wildlife identification prints turn video game flora into museum art

Holly Sweet Illustration has produced a series of wildlife identification prints that reimagine video game plants and creatures as vintage natural-history watercolours. Each piece renders in-game flora with a museum-style aesthetic, transforming familiar digital sprites into subtle, decorative art.

The range of games represented is broad, from The Sims’ Cow Plant to Skyrim’s Nirnroot and Fallout’s scavenged flora. One standout is the Flowers and Fungi of Red Dead Redemption, which evokes the game’s emphasis on exploration and Arthur’s habit of sketching specimens in his journal.

Minecraft and Stardew Valley receive similarly restrained treatments: Minecraft’s plants lose their blocky appearance while remaining recognizable, and Stardew’s print mixes realistic species like daffodils and sunflowers with game-specific varieties such as the fairy rose and magma cap mushroom, with identification notes beneath each image.

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