Photoshopping (Scanning In and altering)

So I have had to do a lot of drawing, scanning and learning how photoshop can help improve the final outcome of a illustration. Whilst i was making up my maps and adding the different drawings for each section I became aware that i had been doing all my drawings very small so they fit on the map, but in fact even tho I loved the process of drawing things very small as i dont normally do that, I found I did not need to do that and could just draw them normal size and change the size in photoshop. This was good to find out because when you draw at a normal size and change the size in photoshop it seems to hold  a lot of the detail that had been added, i assumed that if i had done this i would of lost a lot of the detail and the images would of become distorted and looked like blobs and blurs.

One of the trees at full size

here is the same tree with its self shrunk down, but to the naked eye it looks the same and losses very little detail, its only if you zoom in then it is a little distorted



But when drawing small it  does save you a lot of time if you're working to a deadline and need to get it done, but if you have the time i feel it could be a better result for your final illustration to spend the time doing it bigger and altering the size digitally for a cleaner end result.