How long does it take you to draw a comic?

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:22 pm

Rickford wrote:Erk, missed this thread.

Me too.

I'm glad it's back.

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:43 pm

mcDuffies wrote:
Rickford wrote:Erk, missed this thread.
Me too. I'm glad it's back.

Not me. This thread hurt me and my family. I didn't miss it at all!

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:07 pm

It never told me about that! That backstabbing thread!

Ti-Phil · Post by **Ti-Phil** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 10:29 am

Usually an hour for the pencil.
One for the inking, between 4 to 10 for the colouring.

Arkaina · Post by **Arkaina** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:24 pm

The sketching and inking takes less than an hour, but the colouring in photoshop is what takes the longest (anywhere from 3-6 hours).

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:07 am

I've cut three hours off my coloring process, because coloring was starting to be a real chore. Now, I'm flat b&w with frequent updates, and only 3-5 hours per comic, total!

AVEM · Post by **AVEM** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:13 pm

Like 2 or 2.5 hours. I'm not good enough for it to consume my mortal existence.

Garneta · Post by **Garneta** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:18 pm

I've been thinking about not shading to save time...but it just looks so much better with shading!

Game Misconduct · Post by **Game Misconduct** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 3:23 am

Too long. I think around 3-4 hours day maybe 5 and that's include editting and piece the comic togther.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:18 pm

I'm surprised I draw faster than a lot of folks... I've crammed my production process down into about 2 and a half hours from start of penciling to finishing up on the computer. But that's 2 and a half intense hours and I feel absolutely thrashed afterwards which is why I don't get much done aside from each day's page.

That doesn't count the writing process, but that's ongoing through the day while I'm doing other things.

Netpoet · Post by **Netpoet** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:49 pm

Doesn't take me any time at all. I have my artists chained in the basement, and I occasionally whip them to get them moving again.

Occasionally I feed them. Life is good. :p

>Net

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:05 pm

So that's why Tdot is emo. I'd be emo if I was chained in someone's basement.

Laundromatcomics · Post by **Laundromatcomics** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:50 pm

It takes me two hours from start to finish, but that's not counting all the time I'm farting around cause I'm not sure what I want to do next.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:48 pm

So when you don't know what you wanna do, you fart? Some strange psychosomatic condition?

Sincerely · Post by **Sincerely** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 7:56 pm

Oops used to take me two hours per page, but it looked like crap, so yeah. Sometimes, I put a little extra effort into the pencils or inking, and it took an extra hour or so. Later in its life, I stopped bothering to shade and didn't proof my typing, so I'm sure it was much less.

Dissent takes daaaays to do a comic. I think the shortest I ever managed was two to three hours for pencils and about 28 hours for the rest, over two days. Usually I spread the workload out over two weeks. Video games 'n whatnot.

Laundromatcomics · Post by **Laundromatcomics** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:38 am

God, it's so awful. One time I was so unsure, I scared the cat in the next room.

Hallonpress · Post by **Hallonpress** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:35 am

Just curious, but... Do most of you actually take time when you draw, or are you just good at estimating? I couldn't for the life of me give an answer in hours or minutes...

Redtech · Post by **Redtech** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:12 am

Well we shouldn't be looking at the clock if we're enjoying the work!

That's why I gave a 'vague' answer to my previous post, I don't vouch for anyone else.

After all, if one enjoys drawing their comic, then the time flies past too quickly. I haven't uploaded a comic this last too months, but the updates are still coming in...and I have a backlog...and it took me too long just to decide whether I should use frames or not and ARGH!

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:44 am

I don't, it largely depends on whether I'm in the right mood, and also on how complicated page is (pages in dark take much longer than those in light where all the shading is a hew lines on the edge).

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:48 pm

hallonpress wrote:Just curious, but... Do most of you actually take time when you draw, or are you just good at estimating? I couldn't for the life of me give an answer in hours or minutes...

I judge it by barely finishing before my midnight deadline when starting from scratch at 9:30pm <_<