Each time I started a new digital painting, I used to basically guess at what size the canvas should be. Sometimes it would work out fine, but other times it would lead me into frustrating issues with the painting further down the road.
I did a lot of research into what canvas size and resolution I should use for a whole bunch of different purposes, and I rarely run into issues any more.
If you just want to show it on the internet and on social media, a good canvas size for digital art is a minimum of 2000 pixels on the long side, and 1200 pixels on the short side.
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If you want to print your digital art, your canvas should be a minimum of 3300 by 2550 pixels. A canvas size of more than 6000 pixels on the long side isn’t usually needed, unless you want to print it poster-sized.
This is obviously simplified a lot, but it works as a general rule. Read on for an explanation of these numbers, why you don’t want to get your canvas size wrong, and an in-depth list of the standard canvas sizes for multiple different purposes.
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I’m going to have to start off by explaining a few terms, so that the numbers I share later make sense to everyone.
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In the softwares used for digital painting, the painting area is typically known as the canvas. The canvas’ size is measured in pixels.
PPI (pixels per inch) is how many pixels are in 1 inch when viewed on a screen, so on a monitor of 150PPI, a canvas that’s 300 pixels tall and 300 wide will appear to be 2 inches tall.
DPI (dots per inch) is similar, but it's how many ‘pixels’ are in 1 inch when printed. That same canvas of 300x300 would print out as 1 inch tall and wide when printed at 300DPI.
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Interchangeably, so someone may use DPI when speaking of viewing the image on a screen, or PPI when talking about printing, which can be a little confusing.
A lot of software will also use the term DPI when setting up your canvas size, even if you don’t plan on printing it.
A few problems can emerge if you don’t pay attention to your canvas size, both during the painting process and afterward. These can be separated into 2 situations, either having a canvas that is too small, or one that’s too big:
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A smaller canvas means your software will run smoother. The issues of a canvas size too small come after finishing the painting; either in viewing or printing the image at full size.
If you made the art too small, you’ll either have to print/view the art smaller than you’d like, or scale it up and get blurring or artifacts.
Obviously this just makes the art look worse, and could render the art useless for commercial use and have to be repainted.
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A bigger canvas means you’ll be able to do more things with it once it’s finished. The consequences of your canvas size being too big are all during painting.
If your system can't handle the canvas size, your brushstrokes will be applied slower, tools will be slower to use, filters will take longer to calculate, saving will take longer, the list goes on.
A slower running system will frustrate and slow down the entire process, as well as increasing the risk of your software or system crashing.
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Standard Canvas sizes for multiple purposesThe key to avoiding issues is to plan what you'll use the art for:If your art is going to be shown online:
Desktop or Phone wallpapers: 1920x1080 pixels will suffice, or you can go up to 2560 x 1440 pixels if you want to be safe
And since a small canvas can't be used for many things after finishing, you want to be able to make a larger finished painting.
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In order to be able to both have your cake and eat it too, I recommend the following process when you start a painting:
Start off as big as you can without slowing down your computer/tablet - increase the size of your art as much as you can as you start zooming in to do details
Look through the list of canvas sizes above, and figure out the largest canvas you might want when the painting is finished. If you decide you might want to make a poster, that means a final goal canvas size of 7200 x 10800 pixels.
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Start your painting at this final target size, and see how well your system responds. If it’s sluggish, downsize it a bit. Keep downsizing until you are happy with how responsive your software is.
The start of the painting is when you’ll probably be making the largest changes and using the biggest brushstrokes, but as soon as you start making smaller changes and using a smaller brush size, increase the canvas size. Increase it up as far as you can before the software gets sluggish.
Each time you find yourself getting further into the painting and using a smaller brush up the canvas size until you hit your goal, . You should be able to get to your target size, while enjoying a smooth painting experience along the way.
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If you try this method and aren’t able to hit the final goal size by the end of the painting, you may need to come to terms with the fact that either you need to lower your expectations for how smooth your software will run, or print your finished art smaller.
Alternatively, you could upgrade your hardware; nearly all digital art software depends on CPU and RAM to run smoothly, so if you decide to upgrade then I recommend focusing on CPU and RAM.
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I started making digital art in 2009, became a full-time freelance artist in 2016, and now I’m able to work on my own schedule from anywhere in the world.
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The desktop versions have unlimited canvas sizes, limited only by your computer memory. The mobile apps have capped sizes, due to the limited memory (RAM) in phones and tablets.
Pixels are the units of the internet. Every image on your screen is made up out of many, many little pixel dots, and this is what you are‘painting’ with.
Every digital image contains a specific number of pixels, and the size of your canvas is literally just picking how many pixels you want to start with. The bigger your image, the more detail you can add, and the larger you can print. However, you don’t actually need a very large canvas size if you just want to share your work online. However, the bigger your image, the more memory it uses and the slower things might get (this is why the mobile apps have capped canvas sizes).
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Print size is an estimate based on your pixel size (the ‘real’ size of the image) and the ‘Pixels/Inch’ measurement (also known as DPI/PPI), which tells the printer how detailed the final image should be. But you don’t need to worry about that unless you are trying to get a really specific printing result.
Do you need to print it? Calculate the largest size and exact aspect ratio that you’ll need and use that so you don’t have to worry going forward.
I’m serious about the aspect ratio, by the way; you can usually fudge the print quality
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