[fafaflunky]

at what resolution do you all work on? pixels per inch?

[razzak]

set it to the resolution of the picture when scanned or up to 100 over that. 400-600 is usually a good number to work with. try different things out, depending on what pc you got, you can do better combinations

[gekitsu]

i usually paint at 300 dpi for the sake of printing. the final size of the picture depends then of the size i want it to be in printed state.
if i work for digital use entirely, resolution in means of "dpi" is useless. what is saved is the number of pixels with a certain amount of information per pixel. the number of resolution in means of dpi doesn't change anything as long you want to display it on screen only.
in a gif test i once saw in another forum, the only difference between a gif size 30x30 px resolution 100dpi and the same with resolution 1 dpi was the handful of bytes that "100" needs more than "1" to save.

sketches for not-printing use are kept well in 700px� imho. some of them get bigger, some are smaller.
really painted artwork often gets up til several thousands of pixels in height and with depending of the printed size i want it to be.

just my 2c

[fafaflunky]

thnx

[Snakebyte]

I like to make my canvas around 10"x6.5" to fill a 8.5"x11" sheet of paper for printing. And I set the dpi around 650-700, which makes the final image about 6000pix long or high.

[fafaflunky]

won't the brush stroke be laggy? the larger the brush the slower the response

[Snakebyte]

yea, but it depends on the brush you using and how fast your cpu is and how much ram you have. I never use a brush bigger than 200-300 pix.