How much time do you spend making your comic?

[Phalanx]

There have been times when I wish I hadn't done the Jaded in colour, because it really slows down the pace at which I can tell the story without burning out.

But I do have a rough estimate of where the comic is going, and when and how it's going to end, so it does keep me going, knowing that there is an end somewhere down the road, years and years away though it may be.

Of course, that doesn't stop me from endlessly experimenting and finding new ways to do stuff faster and better.

I don't believe in dragging out a comic on and on until the characters 'go past their prime', or so to speak, or until the readers themselves get bored with it. That would be even worse.

Speaking of which- I just removed CRFH from my bookmarks list. It was a great comic and I really loved it in the beginning, but it's been dragging on and on, and at one point I realised I'd been reading for half a year without getting any enjoyment from it. I'd been doing it only because I've been reading it for the past 4 years or so. I'd stopped caring for the characters, and it was time to stop.

[Rkolter]

Research: 8-40 hours total per storyline.

Individual comics: 45 minutes apiece.

It used to be a half hour, but I've gotten a bit more careful about drawing my main character. Still, he's just a blob of light and I draw in PSP, not on paper, so I can bang them out pretty quickly.

Then again, if I tried to draw with pencil and paper, the effect would be useful to poison control centers for when they need to induce vomiting.

Art is definately not a career for me.

[Terotrous]

It depends. In the short stint I did CG'ed work it took me forever and even then it didn't turn out too well.

The problem is the "short" part. CG is like anything. You get better and faster at it as time goes on.

[McDuffies]

Script: hard to say, as I rewrite it a couple of times before it's really finished. I'd estimate an average storyline, month long, to a few sleepless nights of work.
Once that's finished, I need less that an hour to finish a comic. Depends on size, really, but usually not more than hour.
CRX usually takes me a lot more, since it's a bigass page format.

That's actually a good side of tablet. When working with pen and paper, I need 7-8 hours to finish a page.

[Chrismills]

Now that On the Job has switched to a cut and paste format, each one takes about 30 minutes. I'd like to spend more time, but grad school has to come first.

[YarpsDat]

Okay. I just checked and it seems like I'm way under 6 hours.
I can start work around 16:00, and have it all ready before 22:00, taking a couple of breaks, scanning pencils for backup, doing various random stuff and reading a short story in the mean time.

But still, every week I seem to procrastinate a bit longer than the previous. And then I work a bit faster than the previous week.
And I wonder where that leads.

[War]

Worked on a comic for 10 hours. Still in the pencil and ink stage.

Stopped to think for a bit, and then thought it might be a better idea to do tomorrows comic instead of one for two weeks time.

[Wethamster]

All dependning. Rushart where the art looks horrible and I dont have time to make it looks any nicer, that takes 30 mins about. But normally I like to use 2-3 hours on a page, since my comic has small updates everyday 2-3 panels everyday. you get a tiny bit of the story everyday. *shrugs* Thats what people wanted, I aske people what they wanted at somepoint and seems like everyone wanted a lot of small updates everyday instead of the big comic page with lots of panels a few times a week.

[Nyke]

TDL

[LennyZ]

I really can't say how long it takes, since college applications have sucked up my life (I'm actually doing one right now).

But on average I draw every day during class. Almost never at home.

Storyboard: 10 minutes max
Penciling: 1-5 hours
Inking: 15-30 minutes
Coloring: 1-3 hours

So a little over 5 hours is the average.

[McDuffies]

I noticed it takes me more and more time. Dunno why.

[SuperJoe]

One hour?!
What kind of insane comic takes an hour to do?
You horrible jerks.

[VileTerror]

Are you insinuating it

[DarkArtist]

It seems that it is taking me more and more time to do pages. The better I draw the slower i get. I think the average page runs me about 3-5 hours to create, letter and post.

[SuperJoe]

I'm insinuating that it is too long.
Far too long.
I mean unless one comic is like two comic sized pages with full colour. Then I would say you'd top a bit over an hour.

[Dalis]

Mine's jump up and down in time, it all depends on how quickly my brain clicks for the mood to work on the comic as a whole.

I usualy right down scripts while I'm in my college classes.. so that's 15 minutes there, but it's for more than one page.

The panels themselves take the longest time, an hour or more(3+ hours, I'm picky about my art) if I'm not satisfied with the picture.
1 hour to reline the pencil art.
1-2 hours on coloring if the panels need coloring.
30 minutes to review the script for spelling errors and such since my grammar's pretty bad. I also need to reword and change the sentances if I need too.
Then I upload away!

[Nishichi27]

I'm insinuating that it is too long.
Far too long.
I mean unless one comic is like two comic sized pages with full colour. Then I would say you'd top a bit over an hour.

*Ahem*.....

Only one comic-sized page, full color, and about 4-8 hours to work on it, for each of mine. If I only took an hour to do all that, it would probably not look nearly as nice

An hour is hardly long enough for me to clean up the picture and do the lettering!

[Yeahduff]

Ah, whatever works. Nishi, you labor over yours for hours, attending every little detail, and it shows in your work (oooh, color). Joe here is more gestural and loose, and that shows. Not that either is better than the other, just that each fits what their trying to do. I would tend to agree, though, that most people should be working over an hour on a page.

[SuperJoe]

Actually, I just joke around because I am so terrible at drawing.
If I took 4 to 6 (sorry, 8. WOW!) hours I'm sure I could make a lovely page, but frankly working on anything for that long would make me want to kill myself more than usual, so honestly if you have the power to be able to do that I commend you.
Me, I will stick to quick little doodles that fly off my fingers in no time flat.

[Guyara]

The time I spend on making a page for my comic varies a lot, but I believe the average is between 6 and 8 hours. I think about the layout of the panels, what is supposed to happen on the page as a whole, and in each panel, and how the text whould go, how I should display the content of each panel, and so on. This could take some time, and it's not just when I sit at the table, drawing my comic. After that, I sketch the content of the page, which could take 2 to 4 hours, as I might come up with a better way to draw a panel, and as I prefer detailed sketches. Then I ink the page, using between 1 and 3 hours. When I'm done inking, I scan the page and put in some text and text balloons using Photoshop 7. This might take up to an hour, as I don't write anything down so I can just look at it, and type it in. But it still might vary a couple of hours more or less.