Lineart problems

Sorry if my reply is a year late. I ran into this post and just thought I'd reply because I think I know what you're talking about.

So I've dl your 5000x5000 picture and see that your brush is actually set on a soft edges. not to mention your lineart is very thin on a 5000px canvas.  when working on such canvas this huge, its more benficial to have weighted lines around 10-20px. Anywhos, because of this illusion, if you were to zoom out or to save it minimized, it will look undoubtly pixelated, with really rough edges. The fix to this is to actually use hard edge brush ( make sure your brush setting on hard edge is 100% no less!) and also to have thicker lines or weighted (but that is a choice).  Also make sure your lineart layer is always ontop of your coloring layer.  From the look of your drawing alone, it seem you just filled in the color in the lineart on the same layer.  Which you shouldn't.

Im also an artist, and I draw with photoshop. I hope this helps if not a little. 🙂 

Hello KShinabery, I really like your work and very nice web layout. Never thought of using illustrator, looks good though will give the trial a shot at some point see how it works for me. Always keen to try new art programs

I tend to do my character designs in Adobe Illustrator. 

I either start out with a pencil sketch that is imported and turned into a template layer or I just start drawing in Illustrator. 

What I like about Illustrator is the designs are vector based.... so I never have to worry about pixelation.  And Illustrator works super well with Adobe Character Animator!  So if you ever want to animate your character and give it a voice then I would go with Illustrator.  Granted you can also import from Photoshop to Character Animator.

Think about it... and if you want to see my character art to see how I use Illustrator then here is my link. 

https://kennshinabery.myportfolio.com/digital-artwork-and-character-designhttps://kennshinabery.myportfolio.com/digital-artwork-and-character-design

Then you can also view my workflow as I try to share screenshots of how I create things.

That is great to hear Dave thank you I will keep this in mind when creating images and make sure that the aspect ratios are correct before viewing I think this was the main trick I was missing here, relying to much on scaling algorithms. I will take this information and put it into practice and test results.

JJmack that price is much more reasonable than I thought, next month I should be able to afford such a purchase.

Thank you both very much for your time and patience, it has been very informative.

Hello again thank you both for the input it really helps, JJmack right now this is beyond my means just starting out hopefully in the future this will be an option so thank you I will save those specs as a goal to aim for.

Davescm thank you for checking the image, I am pleased that at least I am not running into any glaring errors.

However if I could just pick your brain a little more for some extra clarification that would be grand. Like I said my second (big screen) seems to pixelate the image when zoomed out rather than zoomed in this is true of a smaller scaled down image (1028) could this just be due to windows picture viewer trying to stretch the image to it's 'best fit' or more to do with the actual screen itself? Most of these images I will be working on are for a visual novel (using ren'py) which needs images to be either 1066x600, 1028x720 or 1920x1080 I will ideally be working in a 1920 or 1028 format. I was advised before to create images in a much larger format i.e 5000x5000 then scale down the image to appropriate size, but like I said any image viewer I run them through I seem to get pixelated lines, now if this is just due to the viewer doing it's best fit trick I can live with that knowing it will look good in its final finished stages. For obvious reasons I do not wish to create images that look good on my screen but horrible for the end user. Not exactly ideal to be creating inferior pictures for something you wish to eventually make a living out of.

Once again I thank you for any input, and taking the time to school my in the ways of the force... I mean photoshop as I am new to all this I understand this may be basic but we all have to start somewhere.

The solutuin is simple but expensive.   Work on your actual image pixels not on a scaled version of your image.

You need to give up on 5000x5000px, settle for 7680x4320 a 16:9 Aspect ratio.

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For better performance 2% spacing should perform better than 1% brush spacing.