For digital painters/artists – what size do you generally set your canvas to when you’re thinking about a 8.5 x 11 print? I’m still pretty new to this and last year I kept going waaaay too small and getting terribly pixelly results!
I usually set mine to 8.5 x 11 as far as dimensions go, but the most important thing to watch is your resolution. For print, I never go anything lower than 300, but that seems to work for MOST things.
So a typical canvas of mine will look like this in Photoshop:
I hope this helps somehow!!! If not, check out this wikipedia article on DPI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_per_inch