i try to ink with the same sized brush even when the character is small, i just find that stylistically it looks much better than a shrunken down drawing haha. i try to emulate that traditional look when i can!
Clearly the biggest brain idea would be drawing entirely in vector so you can modify the line width to be correctly over or under detailed while still reusing the same image a million times for speed
I love knowing the sizes other analog artists work at. I still ink by hand (everything else is digital), but continuing to explore what is the sweet spot for me that's neither so large I get lost in detail nor too small where I neglect details lol. Your inks are always lovely! <3
11×17 is the "western standard" for comics page format, and JIS B5 is standard for manga. With comic strips it's a mix of all different sizes. My current project gets inked on 7w by 22l since it's close to tabloid and easy to do with the paper I like.
I actually think this is a trap in the same way zooming in to much is for digital art. Like, you can get bigger paper but youll still have to draw small things, and while drawing bigger allows you get more detail, it also can mean you spend a lot longer on things that could wont matter
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If you draw everything at the same detail and just shrink things down the sense of depth is weird as well as line widths being inconsistent
(Haven't actually used it yet though so mileage may vary)