how long does your comic take?
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Oops, Nevermind took me about an hour or two.
15 - 30 minute pencils, another 30 minutes for inks, and then maybe half an hour for the fiddly bits, lettering and shading et al.
Dissent was the opposite end of the spectrum, 'cause it's an actual art comic. An hour plus on pencils, two or three hours on inks, hour for flats (more if it's a new scene or there's a lot of figures), a bazillion hours for shading, then a couple hours for shading, and maybe half an hour to an hour for lettering.
I hate doing it. I'm ready to just stick to writing forever if I can manage it.
15 - 30 minute pencils, another 30 minutes for inks, and then maybe half an hour for the fiddly bits, lettering and shading et al.
Dissent was the opposite end of the spectrum, 'cause it's an actual art comic. An hour plus on pencils, two or three hours on inks, hour for flats (more if it's a new scene or there's a lot of figures), a bazillion hours for shading, then a couple hours for shading, and maybe half an hour to an hour for lettering.
I hate doing it. I'm ready to just stick to writing forever if I can manage it.
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3 and a half minutes.
I tend to copy and paste the frame - I haven't typed that out since the first, I use JaVe which has the same feel and behaviours of a graphics program, so I'm able to copy and paste groups of characters and they maintain their relationships when moving them around.
Sometimes I feel lucky that I've picked a style of webcomic very well suited to the busy/lazy/self absorbed person I tend to be - I realise that in comparison with the graphical webcomics I'm sort of off the chart, it would be quite possible for me to create a years worth of comics in the time that it would take my graphical artist colleagues to create one.
The point does come down to - 'what looks better?'
I tend to copy and paste the frame - I haven't typed that out since the first, I use JaVe which has the same feel and behaviours of a graphics program, so I'm able to copy and paste groups of characters and they maintain their relationships when moving them around.
Sometimes I feel lucky that I've picked a style of webcomic very well suited to the busy/lazy/self absorbed person I tend to be - I realise that in comparison with the graphical webcomics I'm sort of off the chart, it would be quite possible for me to create a years worth of comics in the time that it would take my graphical artist colleagues to create one.
The point does come down to - 'what looks better?'
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I'm finding that my comic takes- as long as I have time for it to take. Right now I'm about a week ahead, so I have a lot of time, so I might spend six or seven ours on a strip. If it's eight o'clock and the strip needs to be uploaded by 11pm, then- I'll take two and a half hours. I try to give myself at least four hours to draw a strip, because then I can still make it pretty.
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Mine take something like 3 days, 7 hours or more a day, if I'm really pushing myself and have a short strip or one I can use some shortcuts in. Longer strips obviously have taken me much longer. I am trying to get faster, but I wound up with coloring jobs on the last two that I'm pretty unhappy with, so I'll probably just stop worrying about speed. And getting a buffer going. 
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How Long
I have two comics..
With My full color MWF comic, Weirdlings, it takes 1 hour to draw and about 1 1/2 to color and letter. I do three a week.
With my comic book, Phineus, it takes about 2 hours to pencil and 2 to ink, half hour to letter. I average about 2 1/2 a week.
All told about 17 hours a week.
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With My full color MWF comic, Weirdlings, it takes 1 hour to draw and about 1 1/2 to color and letter. I do three a week.
With my comic book, Phineus, it takes about 2 hours to pencil and 2 to ink, half hour to letter. I average about 2 1/2 a week.
All told about 17 hours a week.
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Really? Mine take about two years.Mr Ekshin wrote:Three years...
But seriously, in the past it'd take on average 30 minutes to sketch, 3-5 hours to draw, 20-30 minutes to ink, about 2-3 hours to colour and shade.
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Hmm...it varies a bit, but generally in the neighbourhood of two hours. I lay out three strips' worth on poster paper, then concentrate on one strip at a time until I've filled up the space.
I generally get about one strip a day done, plus time for other stuff. It's keeping me ahead on my buffer, so it's worth the trouble.
I generally get about one strip a day done, plus time for other stuff. It's keeping me ahead on my buffer, so it's worth the trouble.
