Why Are My Lines Pixelated in Procreate? // 2 Tips to Avoid Blurry Edges!

Are your lines blurry in Procreate? Do you get pixelated lines when resizing or moving a part of your design? This video covers two tips to help you get sharper lines in your artwork when working with Procreate!
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[@eighteen-naked-cowboys]

i was about to comment about quality loss when resizing and moving and then i got to the interpolation part 🤣 life saver thank you 👏

[@BeeJayDeL]

“But wait…there’s more!” Always trying to cram in as much info as possible, lol!

[@Lady-Moosh]

This comment actually kept me from clicking out cause I went "there's a what now????" 😂

[@longhausart2108]

Outstanding info! It’s very timely and needed for a project! Thanks so much for all the great tutorials!

[@kaysn6579]

This was so extremely helpful!! Thank you so much for another great video!

[@LeBonesCreations]

FANTASTIC INFO! I am constantly trying for more smooth lines, less blur, etc. in this video you showed me something I did not know we had in Procreate. I have forwarded this video to,two friends. I’m also going to,give the info to some mandala artists in the app Pigment who,are looking for cleaner, clearer lines as well. Thank you BeeJay, your tutorials and projects are extremely helpful and super fun to do.

[@stevemonroe3722]

Great help! You're videos have been incredibly helpful!

[@michelepoli1847]

Phenomenal video filled with detailed information. Thank you for sharing

[@yosefedri9168]

Very informative and without unnecessary details. Just great

[@advsonhere]

What a wonderful tip! I love your channel! Thanks a million!

[@bonniewirth5719]

Thank you for this! I just painted a beach piece where I drew a sand dollar big so I could get the details in and then I made it smaller. It looked fine until I started duplicating it and then changing the sizing of those and by the end it looked blurry. Now I know why. So thanks for this video! 😃

[@buffyramm294]

I have searched hi and low for the answers to this issue! Thank you so much!

[@bookemwilliams]

I was working on a drawing and having a problem with blurry lines. Decided to take a break and watch some videos. Opened KZbin and this video popped up. Thank you, helped a lot!

[@BeeJayDeL]

What luck! Hope it helps!!!!

[@shelbykoutas]

Thank you so much for this video! Appreciate it greatly 🙏✨

[@DF-oe7qf]

Tip #3, please?! --- What adjustment can we make to our brushes to reduce pixelated lines? (Or is it too hard without making a new one from scratch?) Great video, thanks!

[@MrMisuma]

Perfect! Thank you 😊

[@joseparra4222]

Great video man !! Thanks making it easy to understand it

[@BeeJayDeL]

Thanks, Jose!

[@rabbit2goose]

Thanks for the tips BeeJay! Very informative 🤘

[@BeeJayDeL]

Glad to help!

[@mbeining11]

Rock on! Nice ED angle! I don't think I've seen anyone else talk about this

[@crazyheadgideon]

Great explanation. Thank you so much for showing. 😊

[@BeeJayDeL]

Thanks!!!

[@AlexStafford11]

This will help so many !!! I sometimes find issues with my drawings with Pixelated lines. Thanks for making this video BeeJayDel

[@BeeJayDeL]

Really hope it helps! Appreciate you checking it out!!

[@ellaillustrates9350]

Thank you so much!!!

[@susans2991]

Very helpful. Thanks

[@michellesmalpage6651]

Literally the reason I came onto YT today and your post was the first one up on my feedl🤙 legend

[@BeeJayDeL]

Boom! How perfect is that? Glad I could help!!!

[@naturejelisabeth]

Thank you 4 sharing! :)

[@chantalrochon3566]

Thank you for this video 🎉❤😊

[@jx8960]

Thank you! It is really helpful

[@BeeJayDeL]

Awesome!!! Glad to help! 👍

[@FreddotheWheelchairGuy]

Holy moly, what a helpful video. Thank you 😊

[@BeeJayDeL]

Great to hear! Appreciate you watching!

[@rockintennis]

This video would have saved me HOURS on my last ten drawings😅 Better late than never I guess, thank you for making the video!

[@7ynxzs377]

I wish I started this video before actually animating my art because now I’ve done so much before finally finding out how to fix this😭

[@deleondln7]

Thanks!

[@AnneArchambault]

Great videoBeeJay! Just to be clear, the decrease in edge sharpness applies to all of the following, correct? 1) resizing, 2) moving, 3) duplicating layers.

[@JMulvy]

Vector Image software is truly an incredible feat if you look into it. Essentially every pixel of a shape is given a numerical value; like points on a grid, so when you zoom in, zoom out, scale up, scale down, distort or skew, it uses math to calculate the new position of each pixel and how many more pixels need to be added in order to maintain the same quality in between previously defined points. You can literally do this infinitely without any loss in quality. However, it is extremely heavy on file size and data processing. Not just because of the math being used but each time it needs to add new pixels, that increases the vector file size, on a PER LAYER basis, not just the file overall. So if you start with 5 layers and add another five for a total of 10, you have QUINTUPLED (more or less) the file size. As far as RAM is concerned though, it basically loads the equivalent of a new file for every layer.

[@bigbigfizzi]

This helped me a lot

[@BeeJayDeL]

Great to hear and glad I could help!!! ❤️

[@TimDBoyd]

I've been having this issue and GREATLY appreciate this tutorial, thank you.

[@lehdebug]

You just saved my life

[@MagicalMorgy1]

THANK U SO MUCH U R A LIFE SAFER

[@katiehoeppner5234]

👍great tips!

[@BeeJayDeL]

Thanks, Katie!

[@sayemn78]

life saving tips

[@blabla8339]

Very nice video bro...I do a lot of pixel art, that's the only reason i knew about nearest neighbour... If people knew before watching this video how much good info they get by watching it, this one would go 100% viral... Let's hope it does.... Good job once again bro!

[@BeeJayDeL]

Thanks for the kind words! Much appreciated and glad you appreciated the content!!!

[@blabla8339]

@@BeeJayDeL There is not a single video on your channel that i haven't watched...yeah the content on this channel was and still is amazing

[@AphroditeLee]

Thank you.

[@BeeJayDeL]

You are welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@azad7875]

man! thank you from the heart, really! (flowers)

[@ak3shaynigam]

Nice video 👌

[@BeeJayDeL]

Thanks! 👍❤️👍❤️

[@mina.kunterbunt2008]

Thanks for the video! Do you use 500 dpi? 🙂

[@OAde-nq9vo]

I made artwork of my friend and it came out blurry where I used a certain chalk brush. Now I know where I went wrong.

[@BigBandSuuMo]

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[@BeeJayDeL]

Oh wow…that’s awesome! Thanks for the great stuff you all have made over the years! (Tell Johnny I’m more than happy to do some sponsored content😜!)

[@potatoshark72]

Any tips for ibis paint?

[@yeano9314]

How do you smooth out text ?

[@mollypeck1198]

my main issue is with brushes. i do a lot of line art (that i then fill with color) and even when using a brush designed by another highly successful line artist, the edges are still pixelated. maybe it's not the brush so much as the canvas size? i usually choose a canvas that is the same size that i will be printing on. for example, i make stickers, and my usual sticker sheet is 3.5" x 4.43" so that's the canvas size i choose to design in. but my art is always pixelated in that canvas size... so is it okay to double it and then just size it down once i send it to my sticker software? or should i be doing something else?

[@anayellyrosas581]

If I want to draw an illustration for Greeting cards. Shold I also workwith a bigger size canvouse 1000 x 1000 pixels to have a nice crist line art? Will this be resized nice for a smaller print? The greeting card sizes that is.

[@stevemonroe3722]

I really appreciate your videos! I do have a question. Is there a way to solve my problem when I draw my characters? One character's line is a different size (thicker), though I use 37% for all of them. Obviously, when I transfer them off of Procreate onto PowerPoint, I have to resize them for my panel cartoons - it makes it worse. Would you have any thoughts on how I can fix this?

[@gtristecc]

I wish there was an option to make layers into smart objets like in photoshop

[@tonikenner9093]

What. Size should I use for making SVG files? Yes !!’ Please I would love to to make a living with my art . Please do tell . 🙏😇👍🇺🇸🤣very informative thank you 🙏

[@wbeeze3415]

Question, let’s say I use canvas between 4000x4000 &/or 6000x6000, set it to bicubic and bilinear, and my lines still come out pretty blurry? 😭 what do I do then?

[@fauzan7038]

Is it possible to make a banner using procreate?

[@Killzees]

Another tip I have is using Ai upscaling to de-pixelate images you are importing Ai Mirror is a great one and it’s *Free*

[@DHARANIMENDRAPU]

Image is blured when i copy pasted the image in the same canvas, and when i transferred the layers from canvas to other it lost its complete quilty even after choosing the the 5000px×5000px 300dpi

[@byronrhodes1659]

My sharp pen lines get blurry just by rotating part of my drawing. Will it look different when it prints? I don’t know, maybe it won’t make a difference, but I’m not even resizing, just rotating. Any thoughts?

[@nedbella]

Great video. I make Twitch emotes ( plus sub badges ). I usually make them on a 3000 x 3000 canvas, then send that sized finished drawing to my pc, then resize it down using Photoshop. Seems to work ok, but they could be crispier when seen in Twitch chat. Any advice on what I can do with these. Thanks in advance

[@BeeJayDeL]

Since you are doing emotes, you actually want to start with a smaller canvas- beginning with something closer to the final size you intend to land on will sharpen things up.

[@nedbella]

@@BeeJayDeL Thabks for the reply. Any possibility you could make a quick video on that. Reaches for sweet sugary doughnut and passes to BeeJayDel. 🍩😁

[@reimeiohcreatorforhire]

What if you’re using a iPad that doesn’t have interpolation?

[@mothicgames9085]

I just got procreate and I would LOVE to use a bigger canvas but my art typically uses 30-40 layers and I tried a 4k×4k and it says that the maximum layers is 8 for that size. Is there a way around this? Thank you so much for this video btw!!

[@Uniacoty]

That's because your iPad doesn't have alot of ram. The only solution would be to upgrade to a newer iPad. For example I have 2021 Ipad pro, 4k×4k allows 61 layers.

[@PixiePrincess501]

My problem usually comes when I crop an image. I prefer to do my sketch traditionally and then take a picture in order to do the linework and color. Everything looks fine, but the picture may include part of the sketchbook, and I'd like to clean that part out by cropping the image, and that's when the pixelation happens. My canvas is usually pretty big, with enough DPI to have at least a few layers for painting. Am I missing a step, or doing something wrong? I know cropping the image will make the canvas smaller, but I'm at a loss here...

[@BeeJayDeL]

Are you just using your sketch as reference? If so…easiest thing here is to put your photo sketch on a separate layer and then delete it when you’re done. Other than that-try a canvas with bigger dimensions (DPI doesn’t have any effect with what you are seeing on-screen in Procreate…that is only going to play a role if you print.)

[@PixiePrincess501]

@@BeeJayDeL Yes, the photo is reference. I ink it in a separate layer and then delete it when I'm done. I did not know about the DPI, tho, but I'll keep it in mind! My go-to canvas size is usually 26"x30" and my lines don't get fuzzy until I crop the original photo...

[@MAIMEDWOLF]

I know its rastor based but why is it that when I use Clip Studio Paint at the same canvas size using rastor tools it looks higher quality than procreate's brushes?

[@DancemovementSpace]

👍

[@kreigerart4764]

You are also doing a hem at 500dpi. Which makes the biggest difference. Most things are printed at 300dpi max. So shrinking anything down. You already have an advantage. Your almost twice the quality of the printed piece

[@BeeJayDeL]

Yup, DPI definitely plays a key role when you print …but it doesn’t actually have any effect within Procreate itself when it comes to blurry lines. Procreate will display the same results if you are using a 500dpi canvas or 10dpi.

[@lucaglaser6366]

I use bicubic but whenever i scale an image DOWN the quality looks fine while having it still selected. As soon as is deselect the image ProCreate MUUURDERS the quality to a point where u cant even recognize it anymore….wtf

[@teguhprakasa2939]

my problem solved by using larger canvas

[@jjonha707]

🥃🧨🤘🏻

[@BeeJayDeL]

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[@juliasolo1267]

Literally saved one of my drawings that was about to be scrapped🥲 THANK YOU💖💖

[@cicobigshow1]

Still so bad comparing to Adobe illustrator

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[@BeeJayDeL]

It’s actually part of the Google dress code! As KZbinrs, we are given the required uniform as soon as we clock in on our first day. We also get a copy of the official employee handbook that highlights the benefits and perks of the job (like access to off-topic/ non-constructive comments left by people who think that they are funnier and more insightful than what they actually are!)

[@giovannarolla2403]

Procreate nenes to better that opction 😭😭

[@brandyrich2185]

BeeJaydel I need your help I was w wondering if I sent you an image I made a Procreate could you help me fix it so it’s not so blurry it’s just a couple images combined. If you have the time, please message me back.

[@brandyrich2185]

It’s just a very special picture I’m trying to do because my nephew just died and I just really need to make a perfect