You’re in the same boat as a lot of artists, to be honest! Many (including myself) work at anywhere from 4,000-9,000 pixels, if your computer can handle it, 300 DPI as well. And website uploads are about 1200 pixels at 72 DPI :)

i like having full res pics of stuff when it's available. i'm one of those preservationist types.

Yeah, I can appreciate artists posting the full resolution submission (or at least a large resolution submission) it does mess things up for someone who wants to view the image since they get the choice between seeing like 1/6 of the image on-screen or a super smol version of it if they choose to click to resize it.

I feel your images are of a fair resolution though.

I often upside pictures to perhaps 1400-1600, but even though I work usually in 4000x3000 I don't think its required or necessary to provide large resolution copies to anyone but the commissioner. It would make art theft easier and as you said the closeups aren't always pretty to look at it.

For me I draw at 3500x5000 (or the other way around) crop it afterwards and shrink it down by 30% whatever that is, is my resolution. FA shrinks them down if they're over 1280 on one end anyway and if you're working with only Digital DPI means nothing since that's for printing stuff

You can actually edit the file and change it to bypass the 1280 limit after initial upload.

In my opinion, 1920 x 1080 should always be the free resolution... that's the standard for each monitor, anything less is basically ancient. Anything more like 3500 x 5000 makes sense to be Patron only, even if this is still not a model I quite love... less than 1080p though is pretty silly even for a free post.

Honest answer? It's a model I really hate. It is a little annoying to watch artists deliberately downsize their art on public galleries, just so they can say "the full resolution version is available on Patreon".

This is especially the case when the free resolution is < 1080p. This is the standard resolution for all monitors, why would you make and post a drawing at anything less than that today? If you're offering a 4k version to patrons, then maybe... but not even standard screen resolution, come on!

In my case, I enjoy offering early sneak peaks to one tier, and special versions of art to another tier, potentially even the source to yet another tier. So you can have a Patreon model where you don't need to deliberately downscale your art everywhere else, especially not to ridiculously low resolutions. Wish more people were as willing to go with a more sensible model... of course it's their art and they do as they see fit, just saying how I feel about it.

I respect that and kind of agree. I'll definitely think about making 1080p my standard and it is true there are any number of ways to approach patreon. I can't say if I'll be making one... I feel like it'll happen at some point, but not at the detriment to my watchers. What you have sounds like a fair model.

Because I'm always panically conservative with my hard drive space when scanning drawings and processing images, I only make my images as big as 500px to 3000px max. Any other times the threshold is crossed is for mere exceptions, like character sheets or backgrounds.

well with no concern to space, all my original scans, various WIP copies my art folder comes out to 17GB. Not too bad I think. I did upgrade my 500gb hdd to a 1TB a little while ago so I didn't have to worry so much since I like to keep an archive of my favorite artwork/photos/references so that helps.

1024x768 is a nostalgia size

That's my thoughts on resolution

oh boy, The first monitor I had for my own pc was that resolution. Not that I have much nostalgia for it.