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Dnd memes went full nudes and 18+ content when they changed third party apps a few months ago. No publicities on 18+ content. It lasted for weeks and I never saw so much hentai.

Excuse me this is Switch erasure.

Yeah, the majority of these sheets are A5 - if I drew a lot larger, then the "texture" would get "smoothed out" a bit and it'd look flatter - but more importantly, the larger I draw, the more page I have to cover with my pencils...

One big downside of this is that, I'm limited with how much detail I can get into these small panels - when you look at background details (like books on a bookshelf) they always look a bit scrabbly and wonky, because I'm drawing so tiny I can't really make them detailed or neat. One "upside" of drawing this small is that the format limits the amount of raw time I can spend adding detail, because there's a physical limit to what I can achieve at this scale. I draw a little larger for character art and the like, but I don't really draw anything bigger than A4.

What I do do is, I scan at a very high DPI, so when it hits the computer it's very large - this means if I correct things digitally, the shrinking of the image sort of "covers it up" a bit. (also see my other reply here about the push brush I use.)

So... PSP has a specific tool that's really good for my workflow, that most modern graphics programs doesn't have - it's called the "push brush" and it's a sort of dynamic clone brush.

Most "clone brushes" like... you choose the brush shape, select the sampling area, then sample an area with a click, then you can paint with that sample - but it's quite a cumbersome process that you set up each time.

PSP's "push brush" you set a shape, and then when you click, it remembers all of the exact pixels in the selected area, and as you drag, it paints with a brush that's identical to that sampled area, until you let go. If you click a fully white area, it's a white brush, if you click a black area it's a black brush, if you click an area of "textured pixels" (like all my shading) it's a brush with that texture in it.

This is super great for my work flow, I can tweak lines, remove debris, redraw small areas, and generally paint over mistakes all with the same brush, and I don't have to manually set it up or change any settings for each area, the dynamic sampling just does what I need when I need it. It lets me clean up scans much more quickly than having to change tools for each thing.

Many graphics packages have a tool that's "similar" to this, but either smudges the sampled content, or requires setting up for each sampled area, or has some other issue. I've tried a lot, and they're all just cumbersome and annoying - on the other hand, I believe PSP2022 has the tool buried in the optional tools, so... I've been meaning to try it out.