How Fast can you Draw Pages?

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!

UnsungSuperheroes 2020-07-01 11:34:45 UTC #22

I haven't really timed myself but it seems to be taking me between three and four days if I get my head down to it to pencil, ink, flat, render, and letter a page.

I really do worry that it is too long and that this long-form project I have embarked on will take many many years.
I want to get faster.

I've started drawing this in April, not long after the start of lockdown but so far only have three completed pages done. I have not been working on it consistently.

faisalhussein394 2020-07-01 11:38:15 UTC #23

I make a page every 10 to 12 days from now on.

You can take a look at it:

RaggDog 2020-07-01 12:21:27 UTC #24

My comics is a long scrolled format which usually has 7.5 panels average. But I only upload twice a month, meaning 15 panels a month on average.

As of recent, I have action scenes which is a bit hard to do but at least I use 3D for the backgrounds so I don't have to draw them all in different angles.

When talking about fastest I've done on record: I did 8 updates/pages which was uploaded within 10 days. (Note: multiply by 7.5 panels per 8 updates and I get 60 panels for those 10 days).

That makes 6 finished panels per day. Fastest I've done as of recently.

Which was extreme for me but it's doable when I'm very focused and have nothing else to do but I don't think I will be binge drawing that frequently. But I want to just say do not push yourself, draw at your own pace. My personal experience, that I just shared, is just for reference.

(I haven't changed my username here but I'm Zee Red Dino. Haha!)

JeanGuillet 2020-07-01 15:36:57 UTC #25

I'll try, let me see if I can describe better how pages helped me batch processes together and speed things up.

Once I had my story, I spent a lot of time dividing it up so that there were three distinct acts, and I knew on which pages those events had to go so that provided a big conceptual anchor. Then I made sure I was putting a cliffhanger on every right-hand side page. So with a strong structure in place I could start to pare down each page's dialogue until I had a good idea of what the most important thing was that happened on each page. That was my 'big panel' per page, and the layout of that panel dictated the layouts of the other panels on the page. That brought me to the thumbnailing phase which was quite simple since I could still adjust script if there were too many events or too much dialogue. I did a temporary lettering pass at this point so I could adjust the art correctly and I wasn't wasting time drawing things I knew would eventually go behind a speech bubble. This was a big time saver. I spent a lot of my time per page in the pencilling stage, which paid off by making inking a breeze. I found that hand-drawing the background after the characters were done helped unify the perspective, which sped things up dramatically. I tried to do one major background drawing per page, and then re-used those lines in the smaller panels. In inking I made sure that I was doing 'selectable' inks so I could flat relatively quickly. Coloring traditionally took the longest amount of time but I chose unifying color schemes for the facing pages that gradually progressed through the spectrum as you turn the pages. If I were really to go for speed I'd use my standard coloring trick of a grayscale underpainting with a multiplied gradient map. Overall I batched things out so that while I was thumbnailing the later pages I'd be pencilling some earlier pages and inking the pages before that, coloring the very first pages. That way when I burned out on one process I could switch to an easier one and an easier one throughout the day, working on down the line. I was probably putting in an 8 hour day, maybe more, but not dramatically more.