How large do you draw your comic?

[pawel12318]

Photoshop has a marvelous feature of resizing images to whatever pixels you want in width and height. I've been personally using MS office picture manager and it turns a bit blurred when in zoom in. But on this website it ain't a problem.

[rollo75]

A5.
It then gets scanned at 300 dpi, and then re-sized to 50% of that before being smoothed off in a photo editing program.
A5 sheets are small enough to fit in a document wallet in my satchel, as I go forth and back to work. They're also nice to work on in a confined space.

My other weapons of choice are Artline 220 0.2 fineliners and Artline 750 Laundry Markers because they don't bleed on the page.

[TristanJensen]

I keep my series Life of a Homeschooler around 500-550 pixels wide, simply for the sake of convenience, but it could change depending on if I have to change the medium from digital to traditional... And my average artwork has no limits

[PotooGryphon]

Unless it's a vector image. Vector images can scale up or down without pixelating. I love vector!

I draw using vector layers in Manga Studio. 600 dpi. I can actually see a difference between a 300 dpi page and a 600 dpi page uploaded to tapastic in my comic. I think the 600 dpi looks better online than the 300. Also the thumbnail images and facebook image you select when up loading an image seem to look better at higher resolutions than the lowest web dpi, 72.

[hierogriff]

I just started using vectors too, I love them! In Clip Studio Paint, you can edit the lines after you draw them, AND they take up less file space than raster layers, which is awesome.

[Laredcarpette]

I draw on A4 paper, scan it and... get lost with the file size ! I finally agreed with myself on 1024px wide after loads of random sizing.

[Spinester]

I usually do 11x17 at 600dpi. I have a photoshop action set up to flatten the layers, reduce with to 940 pixels and resolution to 72.

[jedi34567]

I do Adventures Of Ty on 12x9 bristol in pencil, ink it and scan at 300 DPI for lettering and coloring in Photoshop. I then save the lettered version, the colored version, and export the image as a PNG. I then take the PNG and reduce it to 800x600 for the website.

I'm thinking of doing a "How Adventures of Ty Is Made" posting detailing the steps and work in progress.

[shayankhan01]

hmm I normally do 900 and it works good on mine! here look: http://tapastic.com/series/whatfreedom

[abbastudios]

I draw the same size. My art is vector so i have no resolution or scaling issues.

[L4213]

aww gawd vectors, i want to like them, but i've been traumatized by adobe flash's horrible vector brushes that im very reluctant to use vector based brushes ever again

as for sizes i draw on an A4 size canvas at 300 DPI usually they say the bigger the better but its becoming an issue for me because im running out of hard drive space @^@

[darlingGrim]

I work at B5 (or B4 I'm not sure, I forgot what I have it set to) at 300dpi.
It's about 6000x8000 pixels so I have to size it down quite a bit. I always size it down to 940 for the width.

[abbastudios]

The higher the better is not correct. If your printer can only do 300 dpi, than drawing at 600 or 1200 dpi serves no purpose. It will stil print at 300 dpi.

[purrlpankras]

A5 which is like 1700x2400 or something...

[eagle1]

I do my pages on 11X17 Bristol comic boards, which have a live area of 10X15, then I scan at 400 DPI, stitch the images, and reduce to 800 width after cropping. That's the stage I add the lettering in at, then post.

Eagle
(am I the only one using comic boards?)

[L4213]

oh i think the higher the better was intended for illustrations :x but there are still a lot of perks drawing at a higher resolution i would say. such as more intricate details

[abbastudios]

That is not a perk. Drawing at an unnecessary high resolution creates a huge file size and becomes a memory hog while drawing. This creates a long screen redraw time and longer file saves. All of this creates a longer drawing time.

You want to draw intricate details? The simple solution is to zoom in 200%

[L4213]

zooming in at low resolution isn't really reccomended because of the your work looking more pixelized. although yes drawing at unnecessarily high resolution would be a memory killer. it makes your drawings look less pixelated and easier to resize.

there are downsides but it doesn't mean that drawing in bigger resolutions shouldn't be disregarded. i tend to draw big and resize it later to lessen the file size but still keep the detail in check.

[shaylafarley5]

I always draw them at 18x20 or 3000x4000, that way when you do re-size them the color is much bolder. But the bad part is, depending on how much detail you do, that the finished page come out to a gig or two.

[abbastudios]

Drawing at 300 dpi and zooming in (it doesn't have to be 200% exactly, that was just an example.) or drawing at 1200 dpi for no logical reason is counter productive. I've been working for over 10 years and no printer I've worked with has ever asked for a 1200 dpi image. I've done billboards and banners and never worked at a dpi larger than 600.

If you need to add more detail you don't need to work at 1200 dpi. For example: You are printing at 300 dpi with a print size of 8" x 10", which is 2400px by 3000px. If you want to get more detail in, then keep the dpi the same and increase the pixel size to let's say 3600px by 4500px and then reduce down to 8" x 10" when you are done.

I've looked at your work. It's very good and has an open graphic style. I'm not seeing a lot of teensy tiny detail, which is how I usually draw. These are at 300 dpi in Photoshop and ArtRage