Canvas size for drawing?

riverrdog 2020-09-05 05:29:08 UTC #1

Usually, I'd upscale my canvas to be twice the size of the final product, but Medibang's been so glitchy lately on top of lag that I'm wondering if I should just do 800px horizontal and 3200px vertical instead of my 1600x6400 usual.

But I'm worried the quality might be lost. Is it necessary to upscale when drawing? Does resolution matter? I want my art to be high quality on both Tapas and Webtoon.

CarltonIsaac 2020-09-05 05:38:33 UTC #2

This could help!

nostalgicroxas 2020-09-05 05:51:15 UTC #3

If your software's being laggy, check how many other programs/apps you have open at the same time and how much RAM / CPU they're using. Whatever Resolution you have it set to (ie 300, 600, 900, ect) can also cause lag if you're on an either not optimized or older machine, or a machine that just doesn't have the RAM.

naoro_san 2020-09-05 13:11:00 UTC #4

It is not really necessary to upscale when drawing, but if you use a larger canvas and you scale down the image then errors will also be scaled down so at the end it makes it easier to work on the small details. Usually I work with a canvas 2 or 3 times larger than the published size.

Maybe you could try working with a shorter canvas like 1600x3200 px. Also if you use a lot of layers it can have an impact in performance. Another alternative could be trying another software, I haven't used Medibang so I don't know how better or worse it is compared to other programs. About dpi it doesn't matter unless you want to print your comic.

jcmraz 2020-09-05 13:13:23 UTC #5

I double or triple. My standard size when I don't know what size I want it is 3000x3000. Always 300 dpi. For scrolling comics I double and make as much as I can all together. Used length 30k (I can't remember the width I did) for my webtoons short story. I prefer to have the files large in case I want to do anything else with them after or later on

rajillustration 2020-09-05 19:54:19 UTC #6

If you're having issues with speed, it can help to also remove the ruler guides, if you have any--I don't know why this helps so much but it totally does. Another thing I like to do for long format comics is to just...chop up the original comic to be smaller pieces. So I thumbnail it out as it will be for the final, and then just...copy paste those thumbnailed panels into separate files for each panel. Those files end up being something my computer can handle gracefully, and once I have them colored in (using a guide so they match) I just save those individual panels as one layer and plop it back into the original file.