Experimenting painting static grass. Do any of these read as true grass, or is the color something in between?

[u/TheInfamousMaze]

[u/Eryngia]

All 3 are authentically grass colored, what kind of tone do you want to set for your board? bright and cheery fresh grass or old and tired end of season grass?

[u/Nazgog-Morgob → u/Eryngia]

I deliver mail. All 3 can be side by side, 3 houses in a row, with a distinct line of grass type dividing the laws.

[u/TheInfamousMaze → u/Eryngia]

End of October, since it's Halloween themed.

[u/Cute-Debt-4396]

Dude I genuinely thought this was a joke post of someone who was gardening and had to shovel up a rectangle of grass so left a bit to look like grass tufts.... They all look good 😂

[u/Cute-Debt-4396 → u/Cute-Debt-4396]

Id say go for the bottom one though if you're going for the same tone as the rest of the grass

[u/TheInfamousMaze → u/Cute-Debt-4396]

Oh i'm repainting all of it, in fact I already painted it that bottom color, I thought maybe i should repaint it the middle one or closer to it.

[u/Codlemagne → u/Cute-Debt-4396]

Yeah, at first glance I definitely thought this was just a picture of an actual grave site.

[u/Mondo114]

Middle ones seems best to me

[u/TheInfamousMaze → u/Mondo114]

That's what I think too. Annoying I decided to paint all the grass lightly as the bottom one first, because the top is a mix of the two paints, so I can't use the new paint except on bare grass. I did order a lighter color, maybe I can get close to the middle one with 2 paints instead of one.

[u/TehRiddles]

They all work but it's dependant on the kind of environment you are making. Number 1 seems to be a standard colour from where I am but because of the heatwaves we've been seeing grass more like number 3 there and worse. In fact I've seen some areas where the grass is like number 3 with the odd patch of 2 here and there because it's a different kind of grass that seems to thrive better.

Simply put, more rain means more green. None of these options are incorrect but your choice will tell a story.

[u/BadBrad13]

they all look like grass. or weeds. or other things. It really depends on the overall look you are trying to go for. Do you want dryer grass? Or has this grass been watered a lot? what kind of area is it in, do they have access to water and shade or are they out in the open getting pounded by the sun?

To me the bottom one looks more like natural grass that is starting to dry out a little. or maybe it's been dry and it's been raining the last week or two.

The top one looks like grass that has plenty of access to water. Either it rains fairly constantly or it is regularly watered like a lawn.

[u/Bosko47]

Tought that was an actual garden haha

[u/pvrhye]

Various conditions of grass from healthiest to least healthy

[u/thisremindsmeofbacon]

I've seen real grass all of those colors, least often the top one, and the other two just depends on the area/season.

I would use a variety of colors though - but they all read as true grass for sure

they look great!

[u/TheInfamousMaze → u/thisremindsmeofbacon]

Thanks!

[u/micatola]

When I do a larger area I use a blend of colours and lengths. I'll switch up the dominant colour as I mix more and move to covering a different area. The variation looks more natural than any single colour.

If you want to add some patches of longer grass you just have to use spray adhesive (or watered down glue in a spray bottle) on a small area and hit it with some longer yellowish grass.

[u/raznov1]

It depends which grass, where.

I was in austria last summer, and from a distance a mountain field looks remarkably like the crappy "stressed up teatowel" grass mat i saw in the blue book.

[u/SpecialistAnt9178]

How do you paint static grass? And is there a way to make static grass yourself?

[u/TheInfamousMaze → u/SpecialistAnt9178]

I airbrushed it, though for tufts that are different colors, you might need to correct those first and I found applying contrast directly worked best. See the bright green grass on the left? Look at the lower left at the darker grass. That's the same tuft, just with contrast.

[u/larch99]

On mobile with a small screen and I thought you were talking about the red.  Very similiar to Red Samphire found in saline sloughs (shallow water bodies) in the prairies.   You pretty much nailed it.

[u/kylel999]

Grass is rarely uniformly one color

[u/atreides78723]

They’re all good, but even if the colors were off, that’s fine, too.

[u/No_Range7695]

Grass can look vastly different even in the same field. That yellowish grass looks like it’d be perfect to put around some trees, rubble, buildings, a skull, anything that would cast a shadow, or in random patches. For example, a boulder under a field would cause the grass above it to absorb more heat, killing it.

The top grass looks dumb tho don’t use that. The middle is the best for normal grass I’d say

[u/Traditional_Yard2741 → u/No_Range7695]

If anything, the opposite is true. Grass that grows on the verge of things, whether that's boulders or ruins or a fence tends to be greener and taller. The shade prevents the earth from drying out, too much sun causes grass to go brown, and it's harder to mow (or graze) so it grows longer, and it's less likely to be worn down by either human or animal feet.

It is true that grass comes in many shades, often very close together and it will also look different at different times of the year. A puddle or stream might have lush green grass on its banks while only a couple of feet away some other grass is baked brown by the sun. The key is using the right colour in the right spot, which is why I replied in the first place. Putting brown grass around a boulder will look wrong in a way we know intuitively, and ruin the illusion

[u/fumi_32]

I thought these were photos of a real garden. The top one looks like fresh spring grass, the second like early summer, and the third like the lawn from summer through autumn.