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Mar 11

What size do you work at when making your tapas page? I'm struggling big time, due to the limitation of width of the canvas size I'm force to work with a very small brush which makes the lines look all jagged, blurry and just not good at all as shown on the example, I was wondering if there's any way to make it look better...I don't want to have to draw big and then scale it down because I know it still won't look good but tapas does not accept width bigger than 900 and I don't know...any tips or help?

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sorry but working on a bigger canvas and then scaling it down to site's requirements is the way to go
about things still looking bad after scaling down bigger image - can you choose different interpolation methods for scaling in your drawing program? In CSP I've got Smooth Edges (bilinear), Hard edges (nearest neighbour), Clear edges (bicubic) and High Accuracy (average colors) (I've been using the last one)

Personally I do 768 x 1024 per panel

I draw big (anywhere between 3500 and 10,000 pixels wide) and then scale the finished image down to Tapas-friendly sizes. Just keep in mind that if you draw big you’ll have to use larger brush sizes so that your line art doesn’t look too thin when reduced. I set my brush size (for inking) at 15 pixels. My stylus is pressure sensitive, so I can vary the actual thickness based on how hard I’m pressing on the stylus, but I find 15 pixels is a good maximum size.

I also have CSP but I have to admit I don't know how to use it to it's max potential, tbh I don't know what half the settings do, I should look into the edges thing you mentioned, thank you!

I'll give it a try, drawing big with a bigger brush and then scaling it down, maybe I just need to practice with that method around more to get a result I like, thank you!

I work in strips.(scrolling format) I make the size 3 times as large then manually reduce when I export in Clip Studio Paint as a webcomic.(it's an option).