what's a good format for digital paintings/shaded drawings?

[Ipquarx]

JPEG is for when you want to share something online and don't want to eat up peoples bandwidth.

PNG is for editing, giving out when a user wants a higher-quality version, or for certain types of pictures.
When I say "certain type," I mean things that tend to have a lot of regions that are the exact same colour, like text on a constant background, pixel art, etc.

Then there are more exotic types, like WebP, gif (For static images), apng, etc. Let's not get into those...

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i see

maybe i could just use full, colored/shaded drawings to png and sketches/little doodles for jpg?

i'll just use png to be safe though

[LeetZero]

TIFF is where it's at if you want to print things, although overkill for anything a normal person would need.
PNG will do, with the mention that it will save transparency as well, which can be a big plus depending on what you want to print.
JPG is best at high variations of color, such as previously said, a photo, but the only benefit is really file size reduction, which in these scenarios should not be important, so I'd say avoid it.

Just go with PNG exclusively. If you want to publish the images online and they are not smooth / you do rugged art and you don't need transparency you can use JPG. It's also worth mentioning on flat images chances are PNG will have less of a filesize than JPG as well.