How long does it take to finish one strip??

LAGtheNoggin · Post by **LAGtheNoggin** » Sun May 15, 2005 5:50 am

Mr.Bob wrote:Curdle me boots! This Lag is a forgery!

Why I'll forgery YOU.

*stuffs Mr.Bob into a camera*

Dragonmajik · Post by **Dragonmajik** » Sun May 15, 2005 10:18 am

netpoet wrote:You could bet lots of money, however, that I'm going to try my best to convince her to turn this comic into a serial novel. :p

Edit: GRAPHIC novel, not serial novel. Sheesh... stupid head. {wanders off with graphic symbols following behind him}

>Matt

*chuckles* It's already turning out to be a graphic novel, by the implications of our conversations about stuff happening later in the story we're roped into this project for the next thousand years.

Not that I'll EVER complain about that. Wheee, fun!

Dragonmajik · Post by **Dragonmajik** » Sun May 15, 2005 10:23 am

legostargalactica wrote:You'll all hate me, but it usually takes me about an hour or two to do a week's worth of comics. Unless I'm building a new set, then it can take days or longer.

Also... dragonmajik... just read through ttg, holy crap... your art is just amazing.

Thank you legostar ^__^

Damn, I wish I could work that fast... I would love to get through a page every day I had time to work on one. Then we wouldn't be waiting so long to get to the end of the first chapter.

-Rain- · Post by **-Rain-** » Sun May 15, 2005 12:04 pm

aaaaah, one page every day, an impossible dream for me. Even if I worked full time on this, it takes me 10-12 hours to complete a page (penciling, inking, scanning, cleaning, colouring, lettering).

I'm so slow

(but, reading this thread, I guess that is the average amount of time for a coloured comic, so...not so bad). My problem is that those 12 hours of real work are distributed in a week or so...

Birdie · Post by **Birdie** » Sun May 15, 2005 1:55 pm

Gosh I think drawing, inking, scanning, fixing and lettering. my comic takes about an hour, but it takes longer for me to letter than anything. drawing and inking takes about 20 minutes total. But look at my quality of artwork and you can see my time is being wasted or something. Of course in the old MS Paint days, I can do a strip in as quick as 4 minutes, and that's while holding a beer and chatting on MIRC. and AIM.

Downhard · Post by **Downhard** » Sun May 15, 2005 10:57 pm

geeze im amazed any of you have time to draw with the ammount you post on keenspace

.. takes me about 1 hour in school to draw anywhere from 1-20 frames for a comic, then inking takes an hour (my scanner sucks so i have to ink very thick...) and then coloring takes an hour and by then im tired and leave shading and texting.. but if im into it thats about 30 minutes.

soooo ruffly 3-5 hours for a full colored comic,

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Thu May 19, 2005 9:00 am

Drawing and inking takes around 1.5 hours, and then scanning, coloring, shading, bubbling, and backgrounding takes up another 1.5-2 hours. Add in a little laziness and it's probably 4 hours total. But I've got a system: on one day I draw two (3 hours), and the next day I do the computer stuff for one (1.5) and the next day I do the other (1.5) and then it begins again.

That guy · Post by **That guy** » Thu May 19, 2005 12:52 pm

Downhard wrote:geeze im amazed any of you have time to draw with the ammount you post on keenspace

Working a library desk job means I have a lot of downtime in front of a computer... makes posting in the forums easy.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Thu May 19, 2005 12:56 pm

That guy wrote:
Downhard wrote:geeze im amazed any of you have time to draw with the ammount you post on keenspace
Working a library desk job means I have a lot of downtime in front of a computer... makes posting in the forums easy.

I too work in front of a computer, so I post a lot when we have slow days. You'll notice most of my posts are during the day because of that.

Ryuko · Post by **Ryuko** » Thu May 19, 2005 2:06 pm

I'll be posting continuously from 4-midnight during weekdays in the summer. Just so you know.

Ida · Post by **Ida** » Thu May 19, 2005 2:37 pm

I'm supposed to be doing a litterature project at home this week, so I post continously.

AsterAzul · Post by **AsterAzul** » Thu May 19, 2005 2:40 pm

I can draw two strips in two hours. 8)
Oh yeah. I "write" in the car and draw at night, as a sort of recreation.
Coloring is a huge pain, though. It takes for too long to color such a simple looking comic. I like to just color all them damned things in one shot.
So it probably ends up taking like three hours, even though the pointy bit of comicking is so short.
And then I end up chatting on the forums for far too long.

Must stop FORUMING.
GACKK!

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Thu May 19, 2005 4:09 pm

I just made two weeks worth buffer in one afternoon. And it's even fairly well drawn. Envy me!

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Thu May 19, 2005 4:28 pm

*hates mcduffies while stroking a large wooden spoon*

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Thu May 19, 2005 4:32 pm

Don't hate me cause I'm pretty.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Thu May 19, 2005 4:54 pm

HA! How can I love something so pointy and angular!? It's an x-treme turn off.

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Thu May 19, 2005 7:13 pm

The comics I'm working on now take place underwater. No backgrounds required! Score!

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Fri May 20, 2005 2:50 am

PeppermintAfterlife wrote:HA! How can I love something so pointy and angular!? It's an x-treme turn off.

You're just fooling yourself, you unEXTREME person!

Mimo · Post by **Mimo** » Fri May 20, 2005 4:05 am

It varies wildly. I draw them bit by bit over three days or so. Color ones take me a little longer- but the fact I don

Telecoda · Post by **Telecoda** » Mon May 23, 2005 1:47 pm

2 x 45 minute train journeys for the drawing inking.

lettering and colouring on the comp 2-3 hours a strip.

Seems like a lifetime sometimes.