Using pencils in relative document sizes

How I use pencils in Photoshop relative to different document sizes. Sorry for the short length! This is a very rough demonstration and by no means explains everything when it comes to drawing in Photoshop.

Drawing with a 1 pixel brush looks ok in a 1000 pixel document, but when I'm drawing in a 2000 pixel image there is aliasing (I think I called it pixel tessellation...probably the wrong term but I've heard it in conjunction with this phenomena) unless I fill my screen with the entire image. Most monitors can't do anything past 1920 x 1080 at the moment and I prefer to see 1 for 1 as much as possible (1 pixel seen for 1 pixel drawn).

Also, a 1 pixel brush will sometimes disappear in a 2k document. You go to paint something, it doesn't appear, you zoom in and suddenly it's there. Not preferable.

Also, I love my 19x brush with shape dynamics and opacity turned on, for anything BUT straight lines. Then I need to use a 5 pixel brush with opacity and shape dynamics off.

Hope this helps!

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