Trees and Shrubs for Video Game

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An asset isn't design most of the time to be by it own it as to be in sometime in harmony with the other asset or in opposite in some case for example the color of two team.This is why such concept as constrast are useful to define more than light they give importance to what need to be seen first by the player and what is secondary and support the user experience.My point is something might look good but when it put into relation with the rest is might start to create clash.Good asset design goes throught stage of developpement when the game permit it.So a good place to start is the environnement as it the background against which asset color need to be adjusted accordingly.For example you want to design a green monkey does it sound logical to use the same green if your environment ?Probably no because it will be hard to see.Now let take the previous idea and see what can be improve we could make the green for the monkey more satured to give it importance and the other green more desaturated for the background because it less harsh on the eye and is secondary in importance.Of course that just to illustrate that even just a lil difference of hue can help create better visual experience.

Now aside from that try to draw alot that will help you gain more confidence in your ability to create tree no only that you will get better at making less generic looking asset and be able to think outside the box when need be.

Super agree with everything above: You can't pick a "best version". I don't think one bush is any better than the other, art technically speaking. It all depends on the art style and the context.

Rest assured; no game asset is created once, perfectly, and never touched again. Game art and regular art are both iterative processes!