How Fast can you Draw Pages?

Inspector_Spinda 2020-07-01 01:01:31 UTC #1

How many pages can you draw a week and how consistently can you keep this speed up? How long after you been drawing your current comic? Also link the comic!

I've been drawing mine for a year and a half and have about 60 pages finished. It takes me 1-2 days to draw a page, but I only have time to draw 2 pages a week tops. I also frequently lose the drive for a week or two or get really suck on a panel and have to step away for a while.

Freemints30 2020-07-01 01:05:10 UTC #2

weeell. Normally I sketch an entire chapter first before I ink and colour them. The sketching the entire chapter takes a week or so after which I'm able to completely finish 2 pages a day. I fear the longest chapter I have..30 pages...I am not looking forward to that.

rajillustration 2020-07-01 01:07:54 UTC #3

Well, I used to update twice a week and it only took me a few hours to do each page of my simple b+w comic (which updated for 2 years and only paused twice) ...and then the world went sideways and I got quarantined for...however many months it's been and now it takes me...I want to say I've been on haitus for 3 weeks now and I have no idea when I'll be able to go back to it. Probably will be another few weeks. I got burnt out real good, so I feel you on the burn out. When it hits, it HITS.

toonben 2020-07-01 03:06:10 UTC #5

Same it takes me 1-2 days to draw a single page depending on the complexity. Mostly because I like my comics colored. If it's simple, I can draw it in one day. I spend 3-4 hours a day on my comics (mostly 4-5 hours a day lately during quarantine). Thus, I make 2-3 pages a week and 8-10 pages a month (most I did was 12 on April).

TheGentleArtist 2020-07-01 03:10:54 UTC #6

It takes me a few days to finish a page. I normally do two pages per episode to have the story be fluid, one page if there is currently no story, one to two pages for something funny. If I get busy or procrastinate, then only one page is uploaded on time, or late; if I'm burnt out, then I notify my subscribers ahead of time that there isn't going to be a scheduled update. I have been drawing this comic since this April, so three months. I don't really know how many pages I make per month . Though I have to say, I can do this fairly consistently

demthorshie 2020-07-01 03:32:36 UTC #7

For larger pages consisting of more than 10 panels, it can take anywhere from 2-3 days. Smaller pages that are 7 panels or less, about 1 day. I update my current comic twice per week most weeks.

Inspector_Spinda 2020-07-01 03:33:27 UTC #8

wth you draw so fast! and your comic is super detailed to boot :0 brilliant

demthorshie 2020-07-01 03:35:20 UTC #9

Thank you! It's not my most detailed of work to be honest. I work from home so I have a lot of free time to pump out pages when I'm not doing anything else.

ninjashira 2020-07-01 04:20:23 UTC #10

A lot of it depends on what style I'm working in and how detailed the pages are. I did a comic last year where I scripted, penciled, inked, colored, and lettered a 36-page comic in 11 days, and averaged out to about 3 hours a page. With my current comic, it's probably more like 8-10 hours per page, because everything is a lot more detailed and complex, but it's hard to say exactly how long I spend on each individual page since I work on it in batches of several pages simultaneously.

JeanGuillet 2020-07-01 04:24:48 UTC #11

Interestingly enough, I've found that pages take a lot less time than strips. So I recently wrote and drew a 22 page comic for the Webtoons competition in three weeks (avg 6.5 frames a page), while simultaneously keeping up on my main strip comic(which runs generally 12 to 24 frames per week). Different processes used for each, but there's something about doing a page at a time that was really really fast. I was inking three or four pages a day. My takeaway? It's worthwhile experimenting with process. I learned a lot of shortcuts.

Inspector_Spinda 2020-07-01 04:58:21 UTC #12

You need to give me more detail and tips. Your comic looks amazing and you can go that fast? It takes me about 10 hours to finish one my my pages averaging 4 panels each and my style is super simple.

Darth_Biomech 2020-07-01 07:21:07 UTC #13

So envious of all you people who can say "more than one page per week".

rifftiff 2020-07-01 07:27:48 UTC #14

Mine is a scrolling type and the length varies, but generally it takes me one week per episode.
I would say they range 20-30 panels, and I don't have a lot of color or detail to add.

https://tapas.io/series/Bbangbab

Ardelvion 2020-07-01 07:38:27 UTC #15

My webcomic is in a scrolling format (around 10 panels per episode nowadays) and I'm slower compared to you because I can only do 10-20 panels in a month. It has color, but it doesn't have that much detail. What takes me too long to make an episode is the anatomy.

LadyN 2020-07-01 08:06:56 UTC #16

It only takes me about 2 hours to make a page since I’m doing my comic line less but I try to take breaks so what should take 2 hours is postponed until a few days later because of life or just me being lazy. I try to pump out updates within a week and at least 3 pages at a time. I’m only on page 8 right now so I can’t speak though.

teacup_creations 2020-07-01 08:28:49 UTC #17

I specifically chose a more simplistic style so I could churn out my pages with my limited time. On a normal work week I can do about 1-2 pages a week. Or, when I have time off, I can crank out one a day?
My comic looks like this:

gempompadour 2020-07-01 10:32:41 UTC #18

Seriously! A lot of them have jobs and other obligations as well and still manage to churn out beautiful/ detailed pages weekly!

emvink 2020-07-01 10:37:55 UTC #19

It takes me a long time :') To do one chapter (~15-16 panels), I sketch for maybe 30-40 min (super messy). I spread inking over like 2-3 days (my least favorite part), and coloring takes another ~2-3 days. I've been keeping up with once a week updates but my buffer runs out next week so I might need to switch to once every other week

azzy-m 2020-07-01 11:02:35 UTC #20

My comics are in the scrolling format. It typically takes me two weeks do a fully colored, with actual backgrounds, 40-50 panel episode. Three weeks if it's 60 or more. I think it takes me a while because I take fairly long breaks in between drawing the comic.

I mean, I don't want my wrist to break just yet. I've still got a lot of comic-making in me, lmao.

You can ask me, "why not make the episodes shorter so you can pump them out faster?" I like comics that are infrequently updated but produce longer episodes more than ones that update faster but with short episodes, and so that's what I make, haha.

TheDoublekey 2020-07-01 11:32:40 UTC #21

Well, it really depends on the day and how I feel. Generally I start the week by writing the script, then I start sketching. After drawing 10 or so sketches, I usually start setting up the panelling to decide where the stuff should go.
Once I'm done with it, I start the colouring and inking phase, in wich I draw the lineart and put the screentones. Finally, I return on the panelling, where I put all the drawings in the pre-established order and I put the various speech bubbles, along with speed lines, onomatopeia and text dialogue.

That's basically the whole procedure and it takes me a a week or so!