How far do you plan your seires?

[arbanims]

I'm curious to know how far you plan in advance on your series
I for one have and is still working on my script I've gotten down 200+ pages of content on it and have already found a willing publisher
I've done all the character design and locations.

[marygold]

I plan the first few chapters, an ideal ending (which might change, who knows), generally what will happen in the middle, and everything else just comes as I continue creating. Anything can change though, big things or little things. I know most of my characters well-ish by now, but the extent of my setting I still have to work on 🤔

[WakaXO]

I plan on having at least 10 chapters, but have only scripted 4. I might go past 10, but as I already have the end of my comic in mind I might not get past that. 😅

[SpavVy]

I at least have 10 written down, at least 30 more already being planned out in my head and I like to have a good understanding of my story along with an ending already in mind.

[mariusthered]

at present swipe city is on Season ten and i'm working on season twelve i have about a four week buffer as long as i keep working on a new page a day. the story lines i have noted down in rough could keep me going foe another three seasons but i am constantly writing.

[R.n.P]

I've planned how every arc in my comic will go and how it will finally end but I don't go as far as to plan every last detail like the color of the sand or something since I like being flexible when making my comic
THE LAST SAMURAI

[niinasalmelin]

I have it separated in 3 arcs. The first one is midway to be finished. I started it by storyboarding the whole thing and then moved to individual scenes. We're talking about 140 pages or such. It helps a lot because now I know the exact page number I have to do, instead of keeping it all in my head without being so sure how long it'll be.

[Sleepyowl]

Currently for my comic I have 120+ pages scripted out, and 20 pages predrawn as I write this. And the comic hasn't even come out yet.

[eleoza]

I have my comic all planned out. The pros are, knowing what will happen and not having to worry about getting stuck somewhere in the story. The cons are wanting to draw certain scenes really bad and having to be careful not to rush to them too much.

[deceriacomics]

My series is a gag comic that doesn't really follow a storyline, but I have about a year's worth of material written down. I just like to take time to develop my ideas before I start drawing anything. Generally it turns out better if I let the idea marinade for a while. It's weird because gag comics seem so simple, but sometimes even the stupidest page has to get rewritten 10 times before the stupidness feels just right

I'm always curious about the planning process of other gag comic creators. Like do most people just come up with an idea the same day they draw it, or does everyone have a mile-long list of ideas from which they work...

[Flunflun]

I asked my friend to write a short novel that I could make a web comic based on! So the whole thing is scripted. I've designed all locations + characters and made thumbnails for half the comic. That is all the planning done as of now...

[Delphonse]

So far I have 33 chapters written out.
2 storyboarded
1 finished
Most of the characters are fleshed out
The entire series is planned aside from very minor details here and there and the ending was the first thing worked on. ^.^

My other series though it a work in progress it has
2 chapters writen
6 character concepts made but no names
A basic outline of what the first ark entails
That one is my new baby the first series is over a year and a half of development.

[Chopythes]

I usually plan like this:

Invent characters.
Get the general idea of their story. Goals, etc.
Try to think of a beginning, middle and end.
After that I work chapterwise, detailing it with doing thumbnails.
It's more or less seldom that I write stuff down, unless I've got a dialogue I really want to have in it.
But usually I focus on drawing the story, dialogue almost always comes last and I tweak it a few times before I hit the submitbutton. ;D

[deceriacomics]

This is random, but I like your icon

[shazzbaa]

My fantasy comic is planned to be 15 chapters long. When I started posting the comic online, I had:

• a description of the basic gist of what would happen in each of the first ten chapters
• a rough idea of how the whole story was going to end
• a rough outline and list of scenes that were going to happen in chapters 1 & 2
• half of chapter 1 scripted
• a buffer of five finished pages (that disappeared startlingly quickly)

Now, I have a rough outline of the whole story, and while I'm working on one chapter, I try to get the list of scenes for the next chapter put together, and get it scripted before the chapter I'm on is completed. Due to the hiatus I took last year, I'm about 20 pages ahead of the pages that are going online right now. The chapter that I'm working on now is completely scripted and thumbnailed.

I like having the basics planned, so I can foreshadow and build towards certain things and such, but still giving myself room to create new ideas as I go, so that as I'm finishing a chapter, the one that's coming up will feel fresh and exciting since I Just Wrote It!

I'm always curious about the planning process of other gag comic creators. Like do most people just come up with an idea the same day they draw it, or does everyone have a mile-long list of ideas from which they work...

I did an autobio comic before this one, and my process was kinda a cross between the two. I basically kept paper with me that I'd jot down a list of things that happened that could possibly make comics ("grocery shopping with brother" "dropping rice on the floor" "friend's argument about grammar" "cats are too excited") and then when I would sit down to make a comic on update day, I'd look at that list and try to kind of write out an idea of a strip and see which one had the most promise, and then I'd start making thumbnails and fussing with the best way to set it up.
I didn't want the strip to fall too far behind my actual life, so my schedule stayed pretty tight, but all of the lists of ideas and rewriting a silly joke 10 times to make sure the timing works definitely resonates with me as well. xD

[JessJackdaw]

That's actually pretty similar to where I'm at right now. Haha! I'm experimenting with coloring the first 20 pages now, and since I'm using a style I don't normally use, it's taking awhile. The whole story is outlined and first 100+ pages are scripted.

[Mharz]

For me, I knew the start and end but I'm still figuring out the middle along the way. I go with a per volume basis where I'll write, storyboard and actually draw the pages every 5 chapters.

Before I actually started uploading my webcomic on Tapastic last year, I actually drew the entire volume one (135 pages total) so I have a huge buffer in case I can't work on it for a while, I won't go into a hiatus. It also gives me the time to think of what happens next because I'm a super slow thinker. I have like one year's worth of buffer until now since I already finished the second volume. So I have some time to work on a new webcomic and plan out and draw volume 3 before the buffer runs out.

I initially plan this at like 5-6 volumes (around 30 chapters) but I'm starting to think up complex plots that it'll probably extend up to 10 volumes.

[tophersmith21]

I have the series planned out as to what will happen in short blurbs for each chapter. Yet I only go as far as writing a chapter at a time since you never know what small adjustment you might do on a single page that might change the course of your story later on. My plan right now is 10 chapters and around 36pgs each. First chapter alone I've done about 8 revisions ha Overall I would like to use this comic as a storyboard to a potential animated series of 10 episodes. (that will even have more revisions probably)

[nessiefynn]

I have an outline of the series planned out to the end, but I haven't decided on a lot of the details yet. I used to have much more detailed plans for my comic, but I kept changing them and being dissatisfied with them so eventually I decided to just gun it for a little while.

[Ambat]

I plan almost everything ahead, especially the major beats because my comic is pretty story heavy and I like to make sure that the foreshadowing and build up is appropriate for where I want the story to go. I come up with ways to strengthen things along the way too which is useful but generally I like to have a really strong idea of the direction I'm heading before I get started in any project.