Seeing As You Draw Primarily On A Digital Medium, Would You Say A Canvas Size Affects How Well You Draw?

Seeing as you draw primarily on a digital medium, would you say a canvas size affects how well you draw? Does it even matter? If it does, how big is your canvas?

To clarify, I mean sizes primarily for characters and character sheets.

canvas size matters to a point. if youre using 100x100 px that'll be pixel art territory, whereas 2000x2000px is a bit more normal for digital painting, but you probably dont want to go too far beyond about 9000(width or height) pixels for your computers sake. also if you plan to print things ever, its smart to save them at 300 dpi.

tldr; anything too small will be too pixellated, anything too big will fry my computer, 2000 ish w/h tends to be kinda the sweet spot

Process Video Part 3: Lighting! 🧡 I'll post up the final piece soon but I hope you all enjoyed the process! Let me know, love the feedback!

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Hi! I love your art, I also love how you use unsaturated colors with just a few to make contrast, that effect it's beautiful and really pleasant to the eyes! Can you tell us a few tips on how to pick colors? Is it random or you have a pallete? Could you share it with us, please? I really really love your colors!

Thank you! :D First of all, check my faq, there are some tips. Anyway… I pick colours randomly, I just pick what I think will look good. If I’m not satisfied with the colours I chose I change them adjusting hue, saturation, brightness etc. I often blend colours on the canvas. Colour layers are also very helpful :) as well as colour balance options I guess. I don’t have palletes, it’s more intuitive to me.Here’s how my colours for that Ron drawing looked like at the beginning:

They were darker and colder but I changed it adding colour layers.

I hope it’s not too messy lol, I was trying to show some important things about colours and how I do stuff xD I highly recommend learning about colour theory! (there are many great tutorials and books you can learn from) Even if my drawings aren’t very realistic knowing about colours and light, how they work together and what they do to each other is extremely important!Also, draw from life, draw from references, experiment.

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How do you cope with drawing backgrounds? I haven't found a healthy method yet

Well first thing's first you need to develop a passion for backgrounds and how much they can add to a work. If you only view it as an obligation, then you'll never allow yourself to see how much you can do with them.

I'm lucky because I was a Motorcity fan when the show was airing, so I was exposed to backgrounds like this that all of us in the fandom would pour over:

(cant find source, pls lmk if you have it)

by hungerartist

(By Abraham Martinez, cant find a social but will update with one if someone sends it)

These backgrounds aren't just fantastic because they're well-drawn, (although make no mistake, they are extremely good,) but because of how they wordlessly flesh out the world and the characters. The show takes place in a cyberpunk dystopia, where a new Detroit was literally just built on top of the old one, Detroit Deluxe. All the backgrounds above are from old Detroit (AKA Motorcity), but now look at one from Deluxe:

By Ivan Aguirre

Instant change, right? Motorcity is dark and grimy and falling apart, but it is dripping with personality and love.

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Deluxe, meanwhile, is bland and sterile. The most striking thing about it is the giant ominous Kane Co. tower, dominating the skyline. It creates a completely different tone and feel just by location, as the bright and vibrant color of Motorcity is constantly under siege by empty whiteness. The metaphor there is obvious and very powerful in my opinion. Apart from obvious cyberpunk anti-corportation message, I don't think they chose Detroit as the setting just because they like cars.

And all of this is stuff you can figure out just from the backgrounds!

On top of that is the fact that when you're doing layouts or compositions, especially if you're drawing a comic or storyboards, its good to have the background drawn or at least roughly laid out first so you can better determine what camera angle you're going for. A lot of the time if you don't your shots will end up looking kind of samey, usually just people's torsos.