Yes, I have a drawing routine. It's called not drawing for a few days and then getting back to it, a couple days later. I draw traditionally with pencil and paper. I have a digital tablet but I haven't used it yet. I usually draw when I'm at work or home, laying down. It's a wonderful experience for me.
Yes! I need a drawing routine because I do it full time and it gets extremely hard to get in the right mindset when you have to work from home for as long as I have to.
I have a separate office room in my house that is away from any leisurely activities. I wake up, take a shower, brush my teeth, I get dressed like I’m going outside. I have a problem where if I wear lounge-y clothes I won’t be able to separate work from home. And I start working everyday at 7-8am. At the end of the workday I write my to do list for tomorrow.
Before we moved we had a studio a block away from our apartment in a renovated church that I shared with my husband and two other friends who did comics and a publisher who operated out of the top floor and used the basement to stock and ship. That was the most ideal working situation because I got to have a reason to get up and get dressed and it was nice to go into work with people who were also doing the same thing as you. And since I didn’t wanna look like I was slacking off all day I really did a LOT of work....
We wanna get another studio soon though but we’re waiting since we might be able to buy a house next year and it’ll be easier to figure it out then.
im autistic, so im MADE of routine
i work on twaw 2 days a week. i start with a bike ride and get working at 10am - 25 minutes of setting up and warmup drawing, then i get to the work of the day in 25 minute cycles with 5 minute breaks until 7ish. i use this timekeeping app that splits the time into these blocks, and it really helps me stay focused and also forces me to take breaks.
I shut myself in my office, either sit down and play some guitar first, or I straight up find the most aggressive Metal I can and blast it loud. Can't draw without music.
(My wife and mother in law who lives with us are just thrilled about the loud music XD)
Then I draw, and only take breaks to refill my coffee and go to the bathroom. That's pretty much it.
Wake up at 7 AM sharp every day, go get a bowl of cereal, and put on a YouTube playlist of music. I have SUCH a hard time drawing without music these days. Afterwards, I usually draw until either 9 (on days where I have to leave for my day job) or... usually until whatever I'm working on is done, ha ha. My usual thing is that I try to only get one big thing done per day. Like, 'today I have to finish my character lines' or 'today you gotta comp everything'. Usually more often then not I end up drawing at least 3 hours every day, usually more like 5.
Routine? That's for people who don't have ADHD :'D I have to force myself to draw, because welp, I need to force myself to do pretty much anything (that isn't idly scrolling through social media for hours or my current hyperfocus).
How... just how do you guys make yourself do specific things at specific times???
Making myself draw is an eternal battle, and I cry tears of happiness if I manage to force myself to draw for more than 10 minutes in a day. That's it. (it's gotten worse since I put my comic on hiatus, but this increasing inability to force myself to draw was one of the reasons why i put it on hiatus in the first place, lol...)
yes, my comics release once a week. And i also work on the side.
So i set aside 4 hours Mon-Sat to draw. My goal is to have 1-2 comics done in a week, and have a bunch of sketches done. So Mon-Tues i dedicate to writing, sketching. Wed-Fri i dedicate to inking and polishing.
I give myself a limit of 15 min social media during the day for each platform. Sat/sun i can browse as much as I want for new content by others.
It's more that I noticed that I usually get started right after I get out of the shower, so before I can remind myself to actually get dressed I've usually fired up my desktop and started checking the comics I read daily, then going "oh yeah, I should start on this weekend's comic" and I just go from there. Probably not essential information, it's just ended up being part of my routine rather than a requirement.
Here's how it goes for me,
Consider I work six days a week I draw in the early morning in about an hour or two before I go to work and spend another hour or three after work from Saturday to Thursday.
As for my day off, it depends. Sometimes I got so bored I play some games or read some histories or even laughing at a gamer who made some hilarious mistakes, Dashiegames for example. I spend 4 to 8 hours of drawing a page and consider how detailed my pages look like, well I will send you the link for you to be the judge on that.
Because of work my hours are hella weird so I can't really make a "routine." Instead. I do a checklist of things on Asana and try to get at least 3 done a day. I can usually accomplish quite a few more, but some days...some days are just three and that's OK. Every day is wildly different. TBH I can't draw for very long periods of time anymore because of carpal tunnel flashes. Doing art in shorter tasks help break the flow so I actually move around, stretch, and prevent doing more harm than what I did drawing 10+ hours a day in college.