For digital art, how large do you make your canvas?

[the rain artist]

like for paintings, lineart/color, etc.

[Annie Felis]

In Photoshop, 2400 x 3000, 300dpi. In Sai, about half that because it doesn't let you work at print resolution without crapping out on you.

[Errol McGillivray]

I make it the size and resolution that's required for the final product. So it depends. When I'm just dicking off with art, I usually make it 600-800p wide. How tall it is depends on what I'm drawing. I usually work at 300ppi because I print things on products, but if it's just avi art or some s**t, I use 100 or 72ppi. For web, it's not going to show at more than 72ppi anyway.

[Arvehz]

Around 15000x10000px-- sometimes less, sometimes more, but generally it's my favourite size range for prints.

[ninitan]

Arvehz

Around 15000x10000px-- sometimes less, sometimes more, but generally it's my favourite size range for prints.

Haha if I tried to do something that large my computer would vomit. How much RAM do you have? I wish I could work that big, especially for things like comic pages.

[Hiei the Epic]

depends on what i'm making. i usually go about 2500 as the minimum dimension. keeps things smooth and good quality.

[the rain artist]

Thank you!

[Arvehz]

ninitan

Arvehz

Around 15000x10000px-- sometimes less, sometimes more, but generally it's my favourite size range for prints.

Haha if I tried to do something that large my computer would vomit. How much RAM do you have? I wish I could work that big, especially for things like comic pages.

2GB. It works surprisingly well, even when I'm doing large blocks of colour-- it's pretty smooth with brush size 1000-1500px, but bigger than that starts to lag.

My laptop on the other hand is super shmancy-fancy hi-tech whatever and needs like fifteen minutes to open Photoshop.


I think my hardware is badass and refuses to obey laws of common ******** sense. :'D

[Glowstick Overdose]

1000x1000 to 1800x1800 with 300 dpi.

[ninitan]

Arvehz

ninitan

Arvehz

Around 15000x10000px-- sometimes less, sometimes more, but generally it's my favourite size range for prints.

Haha if I tried to do something that large my computer would vomit. How much RAM do you have? I wish I could work that big, especially for things like comic pages.

2GB. It works surprisingly well, even when I'm doing large blocks of colour-- it's pretty smooth with brush size 1000-1500px, but bigger than that starts to lag.

My laptop on the other hand is super shmancy-fancy hi-tech whatever and needs like fifteen minutes to open Photoshop.


I think my hardware is badass and refuses to obey laws of common ******** sense. :'D

What the ********? I've got 4GB on a 64bit system and I could never work that big. It gets all sluggish.

[Arvehz]

ninitan

Arvehz

ninitan

Arvehz

Around 15000x10000px-- sometimes less, sometimes more, but generally it's my favourite size range for prints.

Haha if I tried to do something that large my computer would vomit. How much RAM do you have? I wish I could work that big, especially for things like comic pages.

2GB. It works surprisingly well, even when I'm doing large blocks of colour-- it's pretty smooth with brush size 1000-1500px, but bigger than that starts to lag.

My laptop on the other hand is super shmancy-fancy hi-tech whatever and needs like fifteen minutes to open Photoshop.


I think my hardware is badass and refuses to obey laws of common ******** sense. :'D

What the ********? I've got 4GB on a 64bit system and I could never work that big. It gets all sluggish.

I am completely computer illiterate so I have no idea what affects performance. When doing underpainting and other large-scale crap I usually work on 12-16% zoom and sometimes my PS just becomes unresponsive for several seconds, but after that it always unfreezes and continues to work smoothly. Sometimes there is some minor lag but it's not that annoying. Once in a blue moon I get a full system crash, but on my laptop it happens on a regular basis so I, uh, can't really complain. All in all I'm astonished by how my old piece of crap tech still manages to function.

Perhaps it's just my sick voodoo skillz. /cough

[AcidRush]

I just start at a small resolution, sketch, fill in colours quickly, and then make the image size bigger and work on details.

[Read and Refute]

Whatever size I feel like. Jab in several numbers and goooooooooooo. Usually I work large though.

[Shintenzu]

Correct answer....

As large as your computer can handle.

If you ever want to sell your prints on a comercial level, the larger the better. This allows for alot more size choices.

You should never print anything lower than 150dpi (even that is pushing it, I recommend 250 or higher) so if you have a 1500x1500 image the largest you can print it is 10 inches. However if your computer can handle large files like 5000 x 5000. You can print up to 33 inches.

Personally I've have files as large as 15000 x 7500... No joke. Got a very high quality 48 inch print off of it, framed it and sold it for $200. I wouldn't recommend this unless you had 8gigs of ram though.


In terms of smaller more reasonable sizes for slower computers I wouldn't work any smaller than 2000 for your smallest dimension. Since most computer screens have their highest resolution set to 1900 x 1200 you won't have any major sizing issues this way.

[Clef]

About 6k by 6k.
300 dpi.
Smaller for doodles.
Bigger for bigger pictures.