What is your production time?

[Fishies]

I don't know. I exist outwith time while I'm drawing. Also I don't pay attention to the clock. Just today I happen to know it took me two hours to color a page, because I put a frozen chicken dinner in the oven at 20:30 and started coloring and then the smoke detector went off at 22:30 just when I finished.

Did you still eat it?

[Maker]

About 20% of it was edible. So, yes.

[NeuroticThunder]

I'd say sketching and drawing my strips takes about 2 or 3 hours, scanning, "inking" and coloring another two or three, so about four to six hours usually. I think.

[Alias Pseudonym]

I'd say more than 8 hours, not sure how much more. Sketching usually takes under an hour but that leaves me with just dialogue and a vauge, mostly unreadable mess of lines. Then I do the real linework and inking for one panel, colour that one, and move on to the next. Individual panels take anywhere from under 20 minutes (for panels with little-no background and only a part of one character) to well over an hour (multiple characters, serious background, or monsters. Monsters are fun but take forever.) And the comic I'm currently working on has 13 panels, so it really takes forever.

I have some trouble working for more than an hour or two at a time, though, and kind of lose momentum when I finish a panel. I could do everything at once, but I would die of boredom during the colouring steps. Also, I end up taking breaks to do things like type this post so the time gets all stretched out.

Oh, yeah, and I post it weekly.

[Toreador]

for something quick and simple about 25 mins, 30 for a more attention to linework in the inking.
an hour if i do shadeings or colouring!

[Aerones]

Each page takes about an average of 10 hours, although I've done one in as little as 4, and another took nearly 18.

[Ti-Phil]

It depends which comics...
EOU's Deception's tale : About 4 to 6 hours (mostly drawn at work)
EOU's Time of the Thingnies : Between 6 to 10 hours (drawn in blue and inked at worked, scanned, cleaned and coloured at home).
The Volet : Between 6 to 10 hours also.

[Nikara]

Generally 2 hours per page, and I try to update every day Mondays-Fridays. Ah the joys of summer.

Of course, it can take longer/shorter depending on the particular page. Background haters, anyone? Not that I don't do them anyway, every painstaking detail... ><

[Dr Legostar]

seeing as my process is slightly different from most peoples it's a bit faster. I can get a week's worth of comics done in an hour or so if I have things set up properly. Recently I found it's not hard for me to get 3 weeks of comics done on a saturday morning. Then I went a little crazy and apparently I can make about a year's worth of comics in a couple of months working mostly on weekend mornings. I'm fairly sure I've lost my mind at this point.

[Heart]

"at this point" ?!?!?

[Dr Legostar]

"at this point" ?!?!?

well i was crazy before, but the fact that I managed to build a buffer that will last me until august 2010 kinda puts me a little bit further than I was.

[NinjaNezumi]

I want your mad skillz

[Dr Legostar]

I want your mad skillz

it helps that I don't have to draw anything.

[Cope]

We can still seethe with bitter jealousy, though.

[Dr Legostar]

We can still seethe with bitter jealousy, though.

you'd do that anyway.

[McDuffies]

Man I always wanted to make a comic with clay models. I used to be good with clay.
My idea was that production would be very elaborate with lots of details and character's gestires and facial expressions would always be changing, and everything would be infinitely cool and everyone would love it.

[Dr Legostar]

Man I always wanted to make a comic with clay models. I used to be good with clay.
My idea was that production would be very elaborate with lots of details and character's gestires and facial expressions would always be changing, and everything would be infinitely cool and everyone would love it.

do it.

[McDuffies]

No time.
Also no idea for a good story for it. I imagined it would be something that would be somehow immanent to the clay medium...

[Dr Legostar]

No time.
Also no idea for a good story for it. I imagined it would be something that would be somehow immanent to the clay medium...

do eeeeeet.

[McDuffies]

I don't have any modeling clay...