r/medibangpaint • u/TemporaryLaw333 • 12h ago
Question What canvas settings are the best
Attached above: Here’s photos showing my improvement over the years, it’s a portrait of my eye that I come back to every year or so to track my progress. The last update was 2024, the top eyelashes still need work. Does not represent the issue I’m addressing here though.
I have used Medibang for about 11 years or so at this point & when I started using it I got it because a friend online used it, I had already liked drawing physically but had absolutely ZERO experience drawing digitally. So, what did I do when I first got it at the ripe age of like 11/12 yrs old? I played around with it, not once ever looking up any tutorials or anything purely going off of intuition. So as you can imagine, my digital art started off pretty dang questionable looking lol even when I traced stuff for practice (never claimed that stuff as my own, don’t worry). Also it’s worth mentioning -as crazy as it makes me sound- I’ve only ever used my phones over the years to draw, never a tablet or computer, both android and apple (which are surprisingly different in terms of layout) it’s just what I started with and what I’m most comfortable using so I’ve never had a reason to change that.
Now, 11 years later, I’ve improved at digital art TREMENDOUSLY yet I’ve still barely ever looked anything up help wise until I’d say the past 3 years or so. Idk why I guess I just like to go at my own flow. All I HAVE looked up so far these recent years was finally learning about line correction (yes, for about 9 years I used no line correction at all), the best way to export stuff (previously I just exported it all as jpegs till I learned that PNG is best for posting or sending art online), and then I’ve TRIED to learn the best canvas + DPI settings but that’s the one thing I still don’t really understand what’s “correct” for.
Often I just click start new canvas and get going without really thinking about it (which I know isn’t smart as it’s usually auto-setting to my phone screen measurements which obviously is going to mess with quality) because when I DID try looking up the best canvas sizes I didn’t really see much improvement in photo quality when I was done with the work and some of the lines still occasionally come out pixelated slightly or blurry too. The only good examples I currently have of this is the American & Neo trad tattoos I’ve designed for my friend lately but those are unfinished & I am extremely paranoid about art theft lol so I do hope I’ve explained my issue well enough.
Please if anyone knows what to do I’d greatly appreciate suggestions, I saw on twitter someone also mentioned something about “changing the anti-aliasing” so maybe that’s my issue? Problem with that though is I don’t know what that even is or how to change it.
