Or why do you use it basically... or where do you use it 😅
Because i still didn't understand the background of it like... like how affecting the art
Btw i am talking about digital art. Artworks that are lower than 2000x2000
I don't think I've ever used anything bigger than 2000x2000, for following reasons:
-drawing on the phone that wouldn't allow anyhting bigger for up until like last year or something and it worked out fine
-I make comics that I upload to comic fury, which advises to post images 900px wide max, I already have to downsize my stuff for it so why bother with bigger
-I am not artist and I only respect technical limitations as the ones above :0
My pagedolls tend to use very small canvases (think less than 300 px by 300 px) though they are larger when I export them from asesprite. My digital art often uses about 2000 px by 2000 px, but 2500px is usually my maximum?? I sometimes work with 1500 px by 1500 px or something in that range too.. Honestly it just depends. I sometimes make canvas smaller or bigger as I work depending on how I'm feeling haha
Yes I'm an artist no I don't actually fully comprehend how resolution and canvases work! I have printed my art in the past for a con tho so now I usually default to what is 2480 pixels x 3508 pixels I guess? I draw my art so that the 25% preview is the "final" product I want people to see and the bigger size is really just there for sharper lineart and if I ever feel like printing. I have tried to get out of that A4 base tho and go for different canvas shapes and sizes because 1. con art selling has gotten so advanced and competitive I have 0 chance of even getting in so no need to print and 2. it limits my own creativity a lot when I confine myself to the same base all the time.Â
For pixel art I do small but that's just the nature of that art program! I prefer 150x150 or 200x200; the smaller the size the harder it is for me!Â
In general I don't mind how people size their canvases? It's more about preference and what they're intending to use the work for + potential brushwork since some brushes look better when used on small canvas and some others better exclusively when the canvas is huge and the end size will be resized.Â
i grew up drawing on scratch, and therefore used the scratch dimensions of 480x360, for a lot longer than i care to admit. after realizing how much the canvas size limited me, i switched to 960x720. pretty recently, actually, i switched to 1920x1440, which i'm pretty happy with in terms of quality. i do use 50x50 to 200x200 for pixel art, but otherwise i use a larger canvas.
what bothers me is when people use a tiny canvas to make their pixel art, and then upload that to the gallery- it's really hard for me to see what's going on in the art!
I like going as small as I possibly can for pixel art and kind of struggle with bigger pieces, but for regular art, the only time I purposefully use a smaller canvas is 1000x1000 for headshots otherwise my lines will be extremely shaky and bad.
Considering that I was unintentionally drawing on small canvases for a really long time, I don't quite enjoy it much at all. The lines dont have much room to be flexible and crisp and personally I just can't do much with it.Â