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Original artwork here: Head South
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Of course the reduced size, reduce also the quality relative the vision....you know im full-hd supporter for all life! (indeed, apart some exception, im not more answering on Lilliputians works) 
As i say always.....these works without decent resources like for example these used here, are works anonymous!
don't stop this way!
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Thanks so much Luke!
True, it is a little small. I do hate watermarks a lot, but I also don't want my art stolen too badly, that's why I never post artwork higher than 1280px wide. This way it can still be stolen for digital stuff but at least it can't be stolen for printing because the size is not enough for it. Of course 600px wide would be safer, but then you wouldn't be able to see anything. :/
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For me and my personal vision of these things is ridicolous and for this reason i upload in HD.....Of course each one can do what want! I wrote that because in these last times, someone starting to upload in sizes not legibles...and for me is a sort of torture for eyes....and this is another reason because i watch 90% mattepainting and 10% manipulations.
With my shit engl i try to explaing my personal thought...of course as always for fun because these for me are not issues of the life but only a bit of fan.
My engl so bad to write complex words because this topic is a bit vast like the ocean
If the author of the stock....and so the owner of the image.... upload the image for example in 6000x4000...and so he/she spend time to do the upload........why me poor amatorial manipulator i must create a work in 600x600 and upload this shit size on the net? For me highly ridicolous and without sense....because the work is not mine. Yes i did the final composition.....but the work is not mine in any case because i used various images. The things changes if i have a commercial relationship whit the authors of stocks!!!! And of course the things changes also if im doing commission for third persons but or using personal images or authorized images certified.
Second thing.....why masters, real masters with high skill for example in mattepainting upload images in full hd
and me or others amatorial users must upload in sizes so ridicolous?
The story of thieves is another ridicolous aspect created above all by the psychosis....a sort of cancer or spectre......So each second you read "i discovered a gallery with theft art" like those art was famous art like Michelangelo! haha
i don't write never nothing in those comments....i don't want write bad things because i don't want destroy their dreams to be famous with beginner works.....because 90% of those works are low beginner quality.
To create a strong market with these things is necessary to be at least Leonardo Da Vinci.....who are the people back these thieves? The most of thieves are 10-13-15 y.o childs and they create gallery using other arts....to have a bit of attention.
The most of people know this because we are in 2017......and indeed those galleries are even empty of comments......well if someone has a bit of brain and don't see credits and see a gallery with differents styles.....well some suspect come.......The fantastic aspect is when a beginner steal from another beginner...and these should be issues? The gold days of Photomanip are end after 2009-2013. I remember still well those years because there was a sort of frenzy.....and the implosion indeed arrived very fast.
Try to analyze the works relative those years....it is possible see even beginners works with 400 comments or more!!!!! analyze the comments of the same authors relative these last years.....I know some actual big artist...with works also with 4 comments 
To conclude......If i spend 1 month of "hard" work for example 40 hours and for example using 1920x1080 and when the work is complete i upload it in 800x600........this mean that i wasted 95% for obviously reasons. one of these is linked to the size. Like or not, reducing the size, we are reducing the quality of the vision and in many cases we lost also details. When i see a lillyput work i close always it in 5-10 second this because i don't want waste my time to become blind!
When i see a full hd work.....well the things changes. I stay to watch it also differents minutes and i come back again and again to see again it because i love to give to my eyes visual breath and relax to analyze each detail....Only thanks and exclusive these last type of works in these 4 years on DA i learned something for real. See details is so funny and when these are not legible for me there isn't more fun also if the work is an amazing masterpiece. In the past i was sure that the model + background was the best.....only thanks DA i discovered the importance relative details. A full hd work give me the possibility to read details impossible to see in a low size!!!!
This following works
for example let me to see the little butterflies and their shapes...well ok in this case a shape a bit abstract...but few important. The important is the concept. Try to reduce the size of this work and i loose those details....and so i can't learn...and when i can't learn for me automatically the work became useless.
Same speach about Retouching. if i can't see at 100% the skin i close the work in one second and in many cases i remove also the option "follow" because i don't waste time in useless things.
well of course this is my experience and my personal thought and opinion....each one, as i wrote is free to do what want
Im writing all this because as i wrote, differents people are reducing furtherly the size.....This is visually frustrating and in these months i took the decision to cut the friendship of many people....doing of course exceptions, exceptions for differents reasons. And always as i wrote for this reason i prefear more interact at 90% with mattepainters but only active...because i don't like waste my time to write something and don't receive answer...but these types of people are another long topic haha (many people thinks that.....don't answer is cool and make them automatically them semi-god/famous)
Well i can't write all the list but for example i love follow these ----->
not only because they are cool but also and above all because they answer me.
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Hehehehe I agree mostly. It's true that some of the works that are stolen aren't super high quality works, but that doesn't make it ok, especially when people stealing those artworks are making money out of them, which is not unheard of, it happens sometimes.
On the other hand yes, I rather see the artworks full size for sure. If they are made to be seen that large. In my case, my document for this one was 8000px wide, but I haven't worked it enough so that it can be seen that large. If you see it at 100% it's not that good lol, instead of spending the 10-15 hours I would need to take it to that level of detail, I rather begin another artwork and keep learning stuff. And still, I take advantage of the large size when working because it allows me to do small details much more precisely.
Generally, if I was really worried about theft I wouldn't make the artworks so large, but also I think the sizes I'm publishing them at are acceptable and more or less the size I had intended that people see them. Also, screen size makes a big difference... While in my PC monitor they fill only half the screen, in my laptop they're larger than the screen itself. ^.^
PS: very nice artworks, got me some new favs.
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In this are still acceptable....but here no ----->
Yes thanks your "detail zoom in" i see well the newspaper, the cat etcc...but in the whole scene, i loose them.... i mean of course in the whole scene i see the cat and the newspaper but with a low vision. but the most important thing at the end the feeling is: "tired eyes" i dont want to became blind
for sure all others details are impossible to be seen. Yes the detail zoom help, but its always a cut and also further cutted.
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Hehehe I understand that. But that's what I mean, it's not made so much for super hi res... For instance, if it was, I would have not made all newspaper pages with the same texture, I would've changed it so that there's variety and more realism. I wouldn't have done the water foam with a foliage brush, instead I would've zoomed in and added photos of crashing waves. And so on...
As I said, I rather spend the 10-15 hours detailing so much would take on starting a new project. You don't learn a lot from refining, but there's a lot to learn in the process of building the artwork from scratch.
I still consider myself a student, meaning my main goal is to get better always, and the super fine detail doesn't really teach me a lot!
So, this is still a pretty decent size for this I think (I don't need people to see the flaws haha).
Anyway what screen resolution you have? I have a ultra HD monitor so things look pretty small here, but in my browser I have it set to show everything at 120% size, or I would be blind! But that makes things all a bit larger....
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The path of course is always personal and i talk always about my vision. for example for me the super fine details has been the key to start to grow and this is begun all here on DA....when one day i had opened the page of the song
i was impressed by the quantity of details......super details and normal details.......for example, flying bees, dust, butterflies etcc...These aspects changed completely my vision....oh yes....i can say you that before DA i was sure the best work was that with the model + background!!!!! If here on DA all people had works with 800x600.....for sure my actual art would been like the same of years agoo. Of course you know, don't work, watch 1 work with details one time and you became a master haha Id like!! The process is so long. I watched details each day 4 years.....so watch details today, tomorrow, at the end something has coming out!
When each time he upload something my jaws fall because see well details and extra details for me is a sort of magic.....i give you the information
Extra details or less for me are importants because they develop my creativity and so they help to develop my approach with these things......when im in presence of these type of works the state of my brain is on!
So also flaws or ants....... in the global vision for me are importants
If the details have a logic sense, they are always useful and cool. Try to imagine the previous image without micro bubbles.....yes always a cool image thanks the cool subject but few realistic and also few visually dynamic.
120%? In few words you are saying me you watch your works with low quality: death tones and blurred pixels....I fighted many months to fix the shit issue of browser and their shit zoom activated! This explain also because you do these upload with these sizes.
I think you know.......tons of people don't know this......so they watch my works - your works - others works or images of each type in low resolution and so blurred + death unreal tones....this because the zoom 120/125% change the density of the pixels....In few words, we waste time to work on tones hahaha
I check my works and others works on 3 dispositives: lcd 40" full hd 16:9 ; smartphone and the monitor of the pc 27" always full hd 1080. Well on each dispositive of course i see the work with differents variations of tones.....well i can see that see a cool work on the 40" is another planet...there isn't story with others dispositives.......i can say.....seem to see an image of some movie.
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Heheheh well I'm using a Firefox plug-in to make everything a little bigger, and I can't really tell any difference in color, or blurriness. Mind you I use to make websites at times so I do mess with sizes and different devices and browsers a lot. But my artworks look the same to me on DA (Firefox) than they do when I open them in Photoshop. And trust me I know what blurry looks like, cause in my desktop I have text at 125%... and THAT looks blurry (because of the non-native resolution). Still, I don't wanna go blind, so I deal with that. xD But yeah I can't see any quality loss in my browser, really.
Just to clear up, I'm running a 25" screen at 1440p, meaning things are SMALL, everywhere. By no means I want my internet experience to be that small. Having it at 120% just makes it more or less the same size as if I was running the screen at 1080p with the browser at 100%, which gives me an idea of how big most people see it when I post an artwork... and I still think the size is fine lol. 
Don't misunderstand me, I get your point, and I enjoy large artworks! It's just I'm not working at enough detail overall to make it much bigger. Learning first; spending hours and hours super-refining later... just a thing for a few occasions, commissioned works and so on.
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You work using 125% or 120%........and you don't see differences?
but probably you are using this combinations of settings and this is ok......i can't write nothing about this, because never tried 1440 in combination with others settings....
why 1440??
In any case....to be sure at 1000x1000 you are visualizing good your works, there was a test to do.....It was really simple: Compare the uploaded image (at max zoom) and off line image (at max zoom) If you don't see differences.....this mean your settings
are ok.....if you will see differences: "Houston we've got a problem"
This test is useful for many aspects linked also with color profile........tons of people go crazy with color profile......and for this reason you read on the net tons and tons and tons of people go mad for this....for this reason, my tutorial about this issue has been watched about 3200 people
Someone wrote me " I was getting so mad thinking DA was killing my art quality"
In any case.......if you are satisfied, this is absolutely the important thing!!
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1440p because my screen's native resolution is 1440p.
What I have at 120% is only my browser so that I can read without going blind, and the desktop and text for some applications. So of course, I am working at native resolution (100%) on Photoshop, and still I can't see any quality difference in my artworks when I look at them in Firefox (120%). All I can say is probably Firefox is pretty good at increasing size cause it looks good to me.
However some of the text in certain windows applications does look blurred as you would expect from text at non native resolutions, I guess that's a good way for me to know when it actually looks just fine.
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Thank you very much, glad you liked!
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Thank you for sharing this with us, it's fantastic
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Most welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
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Your animation process is always very interesting to see Roger, it adds a bit more charm to an already amazing art of yours.
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