I start my sketches at 100 dpi and an 8x10 canvas, which is 800x1000 pixels. This helps me spend less time on getting my ideas on the canvas and makes it easy to paint a large sky dome with one swipe of a large brush.
I try to prevent using the largest brushes. If you only draw lines and fill in areas, then you would not notice that the larger the canvas gets the smaller the brushes are, and that could take a long time to paint the sky with a small brush because it happens to be the largest, but looks small on the huge canvas.
When your art is really huge a close up can look blurry, because nobody will see that close anyway.
I know a lot of people over do the size and when you see the image on the wallpaper it is the size of your screen, at 100 dpi, because the adds a little more details with the copy of the screen would be 72 dpi. My screen is 1920x1080 pixels, so I set that canvas size for the canvas and use 100 dpi, so the inches would move the decimal over 2 spaces. 19.20x10.80. I think my work looks pretty good with that and if you look closer at the pixels they are a little blurry, but seeing the image, you would not notice it.
If this looks good at full size then it means you don't need more than that. I use that size for my ASUS laptop because that is the recommended resolution, and I don't want to stretch a smaller image to fit.
To see the full size you click again on the image until the you can see as close as it lets you, and that will be 100% view. You will not get closer than that without an art program.
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So for the longest time I have used medibang and done 1080 x 1080 which is usually the instagram size...but it makes my drawings look a little grainy...should I use a size more bigger?? or continue using the same size???
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That is very low resolution for sketching. I draw in 4K at 72 dpi for icons that then are scaled down to 1024. If you want a nice crisp image that you maybe even print, try 3508 x 2480 with 300dpi.
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