How is YOUR comic done?

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:05 am

mcDuffies wrote:1. I draw comic
2. ???
3. Profit

I'm still trying to figure out how I can just skip the first two steps.

Collapse · Post by **Collapse** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:06 am

Jim North wrote:
mcDuffies wrote:1. I draw comic
2. ???
3. Profit
I'm still trying to figure out how I can just skip the first two steps.

Posted at the same second as me.

Hmm, I'm having serious deja-vu. Have you guys had this conversation before?

Derenge · Post by **Derenge** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:16 am

collapse wrote:
Derenge wrote:
mcDuffies wrote:1. I draw comic
2. ???
3. Profit
Hey, mcduffies is an underpants gnome, who'da thunk it.

And here is my very long answer to the question even if I'm still polishing it.

http://ameryonline.com/pointless/forum/ ... TOPIC_ID=8
Holy shit! That's the longest, most involved method I've ever seen... for anything! How long does each page take you? (I didn't read all of the text, so if you said, I missed it )

Actually, funny enough, that's something I forgot to mention in all that. Each page takes about 8 hours from start to finish. Some faster some slower it just depends.

Collapse · Post by **Collapse** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:31 am

Do you have school, or a job, or anything like that, or do you comic full time?

Derenge · Post by **Derenge** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:58 am

Normally that's just once or twice a week, spread out over a few days that ammount of time is really not all that huge of a deal.

Rhellik · Post by **Rhellik** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 11:24 am

MAN! It just now took me 5 hours to do tomorrows page O_O
I should really NOT do all the work on ONE day.....
actually that's why I do WSa, but oh well ^^;

Collapse · Post by **Collapse** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:30 pm

My pages take about 5 hours each.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 4:11 pm

Egad, people, now you really make me feel like an awfull cheater! It takes no more than a few hours to make a weekly update for me.
Weekly update is four strips, but usually strip spans into a half-page or full-page.
True, it's b/w but know people who take very lokg time with b/w too. It just feels as though I'm letting all kind of crap get in...

Wp · Post by Wp » Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:48 pm

Just cuz you're better than us doesn't mean you have to flaunt it.

Birdie · Post by **Birdie** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:29 pm

mcDuffies wrote:Egad, people, now you really make me feel like an awfull cheater! It takes no more than a few hours to make a weekly update for me.
Weekly update is four strips, but usually strip spans into a half-page or full-page.
True, it's b/w but know people who take very lokg time with b/w too. It just feels as though I'm letting all kind of crap get in...

You complain about doing a weekly update in a few hours? I can do a monthly set of updates in an hour or two. I've done two weeks worth of comics in about 2 hours due to my cheap manuevers, but I'm working on doing some handsketched SFF comics for the future. Now that I'm over my writer's block.

[AlmightyPyro] · Post by **[AlmightyPyro]** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:17 pm

Ok! It takes me at the MAX 2 hours to finish a comic! 8 total hours is just insain!

I feel bad! I've always wondered why all of you "all most profesionals" look ten time better than my best, and I just found out why. Not only do you take more time and scan at 600 dpi and do like abillionan'one steps that you call three, you also use technicle things like 4A paper and different HB pencils and special straight edges and gum erasers and Monkey slaves and toaster ovens! THAT'S NO FAIR!

I use the best wood pencil I can find at the moment, a peice of computer paper (or card-stock if I'm lucky), MABEY a ruler and a white eraser that is becoming dull.
Then, I scan it in at 200 dpi, open it in PSP7, change the light to make it better, make a new layer to ink and color in, another layer for text, flatten, resize and save.

I don't have special pens or special pencils or special brownies to make mine fancy. no wander Esoterik has super drawing skillz! He has the stuff to do it for him! *growls* I'm going to sharpen my claws on your couch!

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:54 pm

supernerdcore wrote:
mcDuffies wrote:Egad, people, now you really make me feel like an awfull cheater! It takes no more than a few hours to make a weekly update for me.
Weekly update is four strips, but usually strip spans into a half-page or full-page.
True, it's b/w but know people who take very lokg time with b/w too. It just feels as though I'm letting all kind of crap get in...
You complain about doing a weekly update in a few hours? I can do a monthly set of updates in an hour or two. I've done two weeks worth of comics in about 2 hours due to my cheap manuevers, but I'm working on doing some handsketched SFF comics for the future. Now that I'm over my writer's block.

Finally someone who gets me!

Collapse · Post by **Collapse** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:01 pm

I rushed my latest page, and got it done in three hours instead of five. And there's not even a visible difference! I'm gonna rush everything now.

Rhellik · Post by **Rhellik** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:09 pm

hm maybe i should try that

Dalis · Post by **Dalis** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:32 am

I guess I can try rushing my work... I mean really. The cookie breaks aren't really THAT needed... right?

G-Lode · Post by **G-Lode** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:55 pm

wow. I always wondered how long it took other people to do their comics. Maybe becuase I am still learning, but it takes me anywhere from 8-10 hours to sketch, scan and print a copy, ink it, rescan, clean it up, color it, shade it, add text, and finally update my blurb on the main page.

Even my extras art, where I practice my photoshop techniques take me 5-8 hours to do. sadly, that's why my updates are only once a week (if that!)

Toxic · Post by **Toxic** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 3:01 pm

[AlmightyPyro] wrote:Ok! It takes me at the MAX 2 hours to finish a comic! 8 total hours is just insain!

I feel bad! I've always wondered why all of you "all most profesionals" look ten time better than my best, and I just found out why. Not only do you take more time and scan at 600 dpi and do like abillionan'one steps that you call three, you also use technicle things like 4A paper and different HB pencils and special straight edges and gum erasers and Monkey slaves and toaster ovens! THAT'S NO FAIR!

I use the best wood pencil I can find at the moment, a peice of computer paper (or card-stock if I'm lucky), MABEY a ruler and a white eraser that is becoming dull.
Then, I scan it in at 200 dpi, open it in PSP7, change the light to make it better, make a new layer to ink and color in, another layer for text, flatten, resize and save.

I don't have special pens or special pencils or special brownies to make mine fancy. no wander Esoterik has super drawing skillz! He has the stuff to do it for him! *growls* I'm going to sharpen my claws on your couch!

Where is your comic anyway?

Toxic · Post by **Toxic** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 3:09 pm

I actually gave a presentation on how I do my comic as my demonstrative speech in my public speaking class. I have it on video, so I can probably post it when I convert it to DV.

Aropeofsand · Post by **Aropeofsand** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:43 pm

FLASH!

Andrew Hickey · Post by **Andrew Hickey** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:44 am

Takes me about 12 hours to do a comic normally. The one I posted last Saturday was an exception - only took about 4 hours because five of the six panels are the same panel copy-and-pasted. The one before that though took maybe 30+ hours to do. This is why I'm updating sporadically at best...never try to do a photorealistic comic when you have no discernable artistic ability...