How long does it take you to draw a comic?

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 4:07 pm

*blows some dust into Remus' face*

RemusShepherd · Post by **RemusShepherd** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:04 pm

McDuffies, are you blowing fairy dust in my face to make me forget, or cocaine to make me draw faster?

The Neko · Post by **The Neko** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:22 pm

RemusShepherd wrote:McDuffies, are you blowing fairy dust in my face to make me forget, or cocaine to make me draw faster?

Well, you'd be drawing faster, but when you sober up and see what you've been drawing...

JTigerclaw · Post by **JTigerclaw** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:24 pm

RemusShepherd wrote:18 hours a page. Didn't we have this discussion before? And wasn't I the slowest last time, too?

Not that it is anything to brag about, but I think I may just be slower than you.

I spend entire days just penciling and erasing my crappy anatomy until I get it right, then if I want to make it look good, I ink over it once, erase pencil, then ink again to do different line widths, and then spend a long time coloring on photoshop, tweaking, arranging and shading. Of course all the while I'm taking breaks on the internet. I haven't timed it, but it takes a good 4 days and depending on how big or detailed the page is, somewhere between 12 to 24 hours (not counting procrastination time).

RemusShepherd · Post by **RemusShepherd** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:37 pm

The Neko wrote:
RemusShepherd wrote:McDuffies, are you blowing fairy dust in my face to make me forget, or cocaine to make me draw faster?
Well, you'd be drawing faster, but when you sober up and see what you've been drawing...

...it still won't be as weird as my current chapter.

JTigerclaw wrote:Not that it is anything to brag about, but I think I may just be slower than you.

I knew there was a reason why the girls liked you the best.

JTigerclaw · Post by **JTigerclaw** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:01 pm

Heh, well I don't know about all that. But I do know that if somehow you were actually referring to girls that read my webcomic, than I'm pretty sure they prefer it fast, hard, and at least 3 times a week.

(talking about updating my comic of course. I don't have webcomic groupie fangirls crawling all over me...)

yet.

Plague · Post by **Plague** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:08 pm

(talking about updating my comic of course. I don't have webcomic groupie fangirls crawling all over me...)

Oh...you mean everybody doesn't have those?

JTigerclaw · Post by **JTigerclaw** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:23 pm

Plague wrote:
(talking about updating my comic of course. I don't have webcomic groupie fangirls crawling all over me...)
Oh...you mean everybody doesn't have those?

What.... is it just me?

ChibiJess · Post by **ChibiJess** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:34 pm

JTigerclaw wrote:
Plague wrote:
(talking about updating my comic of course. I don't have webcomic groupie fangirls crawling all over me...)
Oh...you mean everybody doesn't have those?
What.... is it just me?

I don't have them either. Don't worry. I have the Fish, the rabid fan boy, as my sole vocal fan. I have Latin with him every morning and he pesters me about updates. You can have him

It takes me between 10-12 hours from script to finish, provided I don't have an exam or two in between.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:59 pm

JTigerclaw wrote:
Plague wrote:
(talking about updating my comic of course. I don't have webcomic groupie fangirls crawling all over me...)
Oh...you mean everybody doesn't have those?
What.... is it just me?

Yes. I personally have to get out of my house masked.

JTorch · Post by **JTorch** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:10 pm

One comic for me takes about 5 to 8 hours of actual time spent working (planning to finished product). Add some time for breaks in between and it totals about... Way too long for something so crappy.

Legendary · Post by **Legendary** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:32 pm

Awwww, your comic isn't crappy. The name alone is better than a lot of comics out there.

And me, it takes about 30 minutes to an hour, depending on page length and any special effects in the comic.

Hallonpress · Post by **Hallonpress** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 11:52 pm

Wow. I'm glad that we're not the slowest ones here. I thought we would be.

For us, it depends on if it's a good day or not. On a good day, we could sketch out two pages and ink them both. Good days rarely happen.

On bad days, like I've had the last few days, nothing seems to work like it should, and the page gets stuck somewhere along the way, usually in sketching. Pages 99-100 has been in the pipeline just a bit too long, and page 101 is starting to slowly take shape.

Can't say how long it takes on average.

Glambourine · Post by **Glambourine** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 12:51 am

About ten-fifteen minutes to script and draw crappy layout thumbnails, about an hour to pencil (more if I decide to get fancy with perspective or elaborate backgrounds), about ten minutes to letter, about an hour and a half to ink (again, more if the background or perspective is all elaborate.)

When I started it was about three hours to draw no matter how complicated it was (and perspective, fancy backgrounds, or elaborate poses/faces, forget 'em), then I got faster (about 75 minutes), then I got more complicated and so got slower.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:21 am

RemusShepherd wrote:
The Neko wrote:
RemusShepherd wrote:McDuffies, are you blowing fairy dust in my face to make me forget, or cocaine to make me draw faster?
Well, you'd be drawing faster, but when you sober up and see what you've been drawing...
...it still won't be as weird as my current chapter.

Speaking of which your current chapter skips stuff. When did Foil become a Shaman and know how to do all this stuff? How'd he track Lee down so easily?

... and do you know that the WebSense monster has labelled your comic adult-oriented and refuses to let me read it from work anymore?

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:48 am

holy crap there are some speedy artists here!! actually I don't have a accurate count myself for the drawing as I do it at work between calls and some nights I get more work in than others, but I'm not constantly drawing.

though I'd estimate that on a large page style comic it can take me between 6-8 hours.

Inking is usually pretty quick and if I'm lucky I can do it in about 3 hours.

Coloring can take me anywhere between 8-12 hours...

I been working on getting faster though!

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:56 am

Depends on how much detail the page contains. Can be anywhere from 10-20 hours.

RemusShepherd · Post by **RemusShepherd** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 3:16 pm

rkolter wrote:Speaking of which your current chapter skips stuff. When did Foil become a Shaman and know how to do all this stuff? How'd he track Lee down so easily?

Hmmn? I didn't mean to skip anything. Foil has been trying to be a shaman since page one.

If you think anything needs explaining, PM me and I'll see if I can slide it into the story. This is an exposition chapter, though.

... and do you know that the WebSense monster has labelled your comic adult-oriented and refuses to let me read it from work anymore?

You're not the first person to tell me that.

I don't know why or how it happened. Maybe someone read it.

Dark Spider · Post by **Dark Spider** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 4:12 pm

I tend to do my comics all in one step on a tablet from start to finish...

Layout Pencils: 1 hour
Base Inking: 30 minutes
Depth Inking: 20 minutes
Base Color: 1 hour
Shading/Finalization: 45 minutes
Lettering/balloons: 15 minutes

So overall about 4 hours, give or take 30 minutes based on how complex it is.

EvilChihuahua · Post by **EvilChihuahua** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 4:34 pm

rkolter wrote: ... and do you know that the WebSense monster has labelled your comic -oriented and refuses to let me read it from work anymore?

Know, Rkolter, that other people also suffer under the horrible rule of content filters!

I have Cybersitter, which besides blocking perfectly acceptable sites also edits my forum posts!

Among the words it cuts for no apparent reason:
g1rl, w0rms, l1me, bl00d.

It's driven me to l33tsp34k!

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