{"id":89,"date":"2024-12-02T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2025-07-24T09:09:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:09:54","slug":"pixel-and-vector-drawing-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/pixel-and-vector-drawing-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixel and Vector Drawing Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"91\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cup900LeftHandle-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"mug with Sydney Carter cartoon and website printed on it\" class=\"wp-image-91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cup900LeftHandle-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cup900LeftHandle-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cup900LeftHandle-rotated.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CloseCup900pxls-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Mug with Sydney Carter cartoon and website close-up view\" class=\"wp-image-90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CloseCup900pxls-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CloseCup900pxls-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sydneycarterdraws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CloseCup900pxls-rotated.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are lots of art programs to use that are great depending on your application. For drawing and viewing things on a screen, Photoshop has worked great for me. The brush tool settings are great for drawing and digitally painting things that may have sharp or soft edges, for blending and layering colors together. I also sometimes use ProCreate, which can be a little bit better for sharper, more defined drawings. However, I&#8217;m experimenting with printing my artwork on solid objects now and I&#8217;m realizing the limitations of using pixel-based Photoshop and migrating toward Illustrator for vector graphic files. Printing photoshop images on mugs and paper, for example, can reveal the square pixels in the drawing depending on how large the image is that I submit to be printed. I can see the small little squares that give it a pointalistic effect that show an image that isn&#8217;t fully filled in. With vector images, the lines scale without stretching out pixels so that images are much cleaner and solid when applied to objects off the original screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of art programs to use that are great depending on your application. For drawing and viewing things on a screen, Photoshop has worked great for me. The brush tool settings are great for drawing and digitally painting things that may have sharp or soft edges, for blending and layering colors together. 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