How long does it take you to draw a comic?

Legendary · Post by **Legendary** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 4:47 pm

Well, we can't have you talking about girls.

I mean seriously, if you ever talk about a female, you're doubtlessly talking about all sorts of sexual perversions. I am ashamed of you, EC.

EvilChihuahua · Post by **EvilChihuahua** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 4:49 pm

Legendary wrote:Well, we can't have you talking about girls.

I mean seriously, if you ever talk about a female, you're doubtlessly talking about all sorts of ual perversions. I am ashamed of you, EC.

*Sniff*, I'm a horrible person...

Kramerthebird · Post by **Kramerthebird** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:02 pm

I'm very slow at drawing, mostly because I have to use a mouse to do it. I have gotten much faster though... at first it took about two hours to finish one panel, now I can do the same job in thirty minutes.

Gildedtongue · Post by **Gildedtongue** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:15 pm

Physically draw a comic? From pencil scritchings to scan can take about one and a half to two hours, mostly because I'm IMing people as I draw, I need the distraction to work, sadly.

Of course, before that I spend about 3 hours pounding my head on my desk groaning, "Joke... joke... I need a joke... why God, why for I suck!"

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:22 pm

For me, I've found that, under the right conditions, I can pound out pencils and inks in about half an hour. Those conditions are something akin to the planets aligning. It's about an hour and a half per once I scan it.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:33 pm

The fastest I've done a page in my current style from start to finish is 8 hours.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 4:39 pm

Sometimes my minimalist style is an asset. Start to posting online: 40-60 minutes.

Jin-roh · Post by **Jin-roh** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 7:43 pm

Wow. So I'm just a big pansy compared to everybody except the person who just posted huh?

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 7:47 pm

You obviously haven't seen my comic. There's a reason I can do it so quickly.

Thereforeiam · Post by **Thereforeiam** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:57 pm

About a solid 3-4 hours per panel. Add in my laziness, you get 3 comics per month. I'm attempting to do at least one a week, but backgrounds are a biotch. And so are sitting poses.

Goku529 · Post by **Goku529** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:05 pm

if i' am lucky 4 drawn (not inked) pages in two weeks.

Americangothic · Post by **Americangothic** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 9:02 am

How many of us are overweight because we spend WAAAYYY too much time doing our comic/reading comics and not enough time exercising....

my comic addiction has definitely added to my theighs.

Katmaidog · Post by **Katmaidog** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:03 pm

2.5 hours. half an hour to sketch and then ink the lineart, and then 2 hours to color using photoshop.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:17 pm

Warren wrote:You obviously haven't seen my comic. There's a reason I can do it so quickly.

And yet you still wimped out of doing your weekend posts.

Kilre · Post by **Kilre** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:15 pm

I can destroy a perfectly good sheet of paper with my scratching in about 30 minutes to an hour, and then make it worse with another half hour to an hour after scanning.

So that's...around 1.5-3 hours a page (give or take half an hour to think up the dialogue).

Dragonmajik · Post by **Dragonmajik** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:42 pm

I stopped keeping track of how long it takes to produce art a long time ago. There's just too many variables that impact how long it takes to go from idea to finished piece. I'm also a slow artist and retentive about details...

However, I'm farily certain I have most people here "beat" when it comes to longest time spent (consistently) working on updates.

Ataraxia · Post by **Ataraxia** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:56 pm

dragonmajik wrote:I stopped keeping track of how long it takes to produce art a long time ago. There's just too many variables that impact how long it takes to go from idea to finished piece. I'm also a slow artist and retentive about details...

However, I'm farily certain I have most people here "beat" when it comes to longest time spent (consistently) working on updates.

Given the nature of your art, that's completely understandable. If, on the other hand, someone like me said they spent 12-16 hours per page that'd warrant a definite

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Jdalton · Post by **Jdalton** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:33 am

I'm actually quite surprised I'm not the slowest one. Because I am veeeeery slooooooow. If I push myself I can get a page done in two days, which would be about 16 hours maybe. Usually it ends up taking three days at least though.

Seriocity · Post by **Seriocity** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 2:15 am

Way too long since I'm always erasing and struggling with proportions. I already have enough problems with sketching, really.

Mo · Post by Mo » Sun Nov 19, 2006 3:06 am

Seriocity wrote:Way too long since I'm always erasing and struggling with proportions. I already have enough problems with sketching, really.

Yeah, I mean you've been working on the next page for how long now, two years?

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