Are you alone or in a group?

[keac]

If you're the only one making one page/strip/etc. How long does it take?

If you're in a group, the one who illustrates, the other one working on the coloring, and the other one finalizing, how long does it also take?

I've seen a lot of comics that has been worked hard but I'm curious if you're the only one making it or in a group.

[Stellamari]

Alone here! It takes, in total around 6 hours from drafting to finalizing it, longer if I am drawing something unfamiliar. But my comic style is simple, so that's a major bonus!

[AnnaLandin]

I'm the only creator of my comic. : )

Each page takes me about 3-8 hours, depending on how complicated it is (the chapter I'm drawing right now is taking 8+ hours per page, on account of having really complicated crowd-scenes and architecture and stuff), and that's not counting all of the planning - scripts/thumbnails/research and stuff - that I do before I start drawing.

[CPY]

I work alone ...
It depends if I've inspirations or not.
If I do ... I can finish a strip in about 3-7 hours from conceptualization to illustrating (vector) and then paneling (in photshop) .
Else I usually can't produce anything for days :/

If hand drawn - i usually take about 1 to draw a page - and then few hours to ink it. About an hour +/- to scan and edit in Photoshop to get the final product.

[yartzanaserenade]

generally alone, but sometimes when i feel stuck my boyfriend helps me brainstorming, also he writes most dialogues cause I'm not a native speaker.

e to finish a chapter of around 10 pages it can take a couple of days if I'm rushing or inspired. But I havent uploaded my comic in a month cause I never find time for it. Yesterday I drafted a long page which height is like 2 normal pages. I'm gonna work on the details and start another 1-2 pages and write the bubbles when my boyfriend finds time.

If I'm not lazy I can make it before the end of the week.

[mappypaint]

I like working alone as I like to have full control. A full color page will take me an average of 4 hours from blank sheet of paper to finished page... that is if there's no interruptions. A single interruption will ruin my momentum and will take me longer to finish.

[Tanisha]

I work alone!~ I honestly love the process of toning and such during the page process and no one would ever understand my sketches better than me since they are literally just scribbles

[Dranif]

I'm a solo creator.
There's simply less complications that way.
Takes me about 4 - 8 hours to make a page.

[ErithEl]

I'm the solo creator for my comic.
If I could actually sit down and finish a page without getting distracted, it would probably take between 4-5 hours. Sadly, this is not the case so if I have the day off, it usually takes me that entire day to finish a page1

[serenitysquirrel]

I also go alone, though would love to do a collab project at some point with someone for the story AND the art (we both work on each). For just me and timing, it depends. When I haven't done a ton of sketching and laying out, etc. then it's slow moving. But with it, I can finalize about 2 pgs a week.

[ratique]

I kinda work alone, but I also have a team around me. All illustrations and basic writing is done by me, but I discuss everything with my husband and he goes over the final script - So he is my editor. If I need complicated 3D objects done, that is also his job.

It probably takes 5 to 8 hours to create a page. Some are a little bit more complicated than others.

[Vikiro_Hop]

I go it alone, the style of comic I do makes it easy to deal with by myself, but at the shortest it takes me to put out a comic is probably 3 hours. I have selective things that I can be a perfectionist with and that is probably what takes the longest.

For some of my more ambitious ideas I might have someone help with background or coloring, but that is probably the extent of that.

[Cielle]

I work alone ^.^ It's hard to say how long it takes me to finish a page since my process is kind of weird, but it probably takes me around 9-12 hours to finish a page. I usually work on a page over the course of a week or so. Even when I'm working on it, usually I'll take breaks often so my hand doesn't start hurting. I don't really keep track of the time. Maybe I should start haha.

The shortest amount of time I've ever completed a page was 7 hours in one sitting. so I guess it's possible for me to finish that quickly if I'm properly motivated and don't have distractions! I don't recommend working that way though.

[scottwuming]

If you're the only one making one page/strip/etc. How long does it take?

I'm alone. I also work as my own proofreader. ^^;

I don't do mine per page but by batch per step. Say, day 1 I can sketch 5-6 pages > initial typeset > ink > screentone > final typeset > ..wait for a few days.. >proofread. In a week, if not in a rush, I can finish 5-10 pages.

[joannekwan]

All by myself, and I take care of 3 series.

I usually can finish all the work for an update in a day, probably 8 hours for my black and white series, and 10+ hours for my colored one. But I like to spread out work across two days for each series while working on other things in between.

[Kura]

I work alone.

The only outside help I get is I have a friend that will edit the spelling.

[Luminosophy]

I'm in a group, just two people. Boyfriend writes and I draw. (At least, that is the very simplified version). However about 2-3 days if the total time can be condensed. I'm just starting and we both have little experience, so more time is spent fussing over paneling than actual page work. In addition, I like my detailed background paintings so that takes a fair whack of time. Hopefully as we get better, it will take less time to make a single page.

[apocryphagraphics]

I work alone. Each page takes between 15 and 20 hours from original layout to finished page. I'm thinking of bringing in a colorist eventually to do a parallel color version of the comic.

[yosarian13]

For my Crow Jane comics I work alone. On average it takes me about 20 hours a page (about 10 hours for layouts and lines and about 10 more for colors and letters). I'm still in the early design stages for another comic with a writer and inker (I'm doing pencils) and those pages only run me about 6 hours.

[colinwmd]

I work alone and it takes me far longer than it really should! But it's early days for me and I'm still learning.

So far I've found I work better one page at a time, rather than doing each step on multiple pages together. I'm not sure why that is although when I can see the panels getting towards completion it feels much more like I'm making progress, so maybe I just want to get to that point more frequently.

Anyway, it takes me between 10 and 20 hours to do a basic 6 panel page, although there are a lot of stops and starts in that time so I'm not sure how quickly I could do it if I could sit down and do it one go