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I don't like to say I work slowly, but my pages do take a very long time. I don't really spend a long time planning in total, but I tend to come back to it in short bursts to edit things. Per page it probably doesn't work out at more than 30 minutes for the script and layout, and many are a lot less. It's the actual drawing that really takes the time.
Pencils: 3-5 hours
Inks: 4-6 hours
Colours: 7-15 hours
Lettering and finishing touches: 30mins
When I'm working on something with a lot of extra detail like a cityscape, a whole page can take 30-40 hours, but I think most fit into 15-20.
Yes, @elixiadragmire, I use DAZ3D for my 'drawing'. I draw freehand as well, but for the rigors of a comic production schedule I need shortcuts. Once I've done the render, I import it to GIMP, convert it to a line drawing, and then print that sucker, slap it on the lightbox, put a comic board over it, and start inking. It's a very different process, and one I am still working the kinks out of, but it looks good for the long term.
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(And Perspective, Anatomy, and Proportion issues are gone)
The planning I do for my comics often takes a long time, I keep a notebook by my bed that I go through to write, find, and refine ideas until its something I'd want to put online. This part is easily the hardest. Then there's story boarding, concept sketches and so on....
My regular comics (Life of a Homeschooler1 and Oy Vey!)can take somewhere up to an hour, though the actual drawing only takes up about half of that time (unless I'm in a hurry, than I can do it in minutes, they're not too good, but they work)
My pages for [insert epic title here] can take up to a day to get planned out because I find myself changing panels over and over again... its never good the first time. That and I'm re drawing the whole series because I realized there were a lot of errors I need to fix...
You're all so quick, it's amazing !
@elixiadragmire It may have not helped to go straight to sketches before the thumbnails. there is a whole reflection with it ! :o
I understand the struggle with planning everything ! comic are a very good exercize for this.
yeah I think my times are close to yours! I love colouring, it my best bit! i tend to faff around too much when I do it XD
My process is kind of spread out, but it usually takes 2-4 days before a page is complete. Sometimes it can take even longer due to the page being difficult, headaches (as I'm prone to them) or other life things.
Usually my schedule goes like this -
Sunday night : Sometimes I may refine the script of the current and/or next few pages to make sure I'm happy with everything, but either way I sketch out the page on this night. If I'm busy this part may be done on Monday instead.
Monday: Clean up sketches and ink as much of the page as I can. If things are going well, maybe do a bit of flat coloring.
Tuesday: Finish up inking and do flat coloring. If things are going well, I might even get a lot of the page done or completely finished this day...but usually...
Wednesday: This is when I do all the shading, detailing, editing, and then add in text. YAY, FINISHED.
Inking, refining and complicated backgrounds are what takes the longest with me. Kind of hate those parts. .__. I feel like I'm incredibly slow at this, actually...I use to pop out two pages a week and now I wonder how the heck I used to do that...
6-10 hours figuring in layouts, pencils, inks, colors, lettering. I typically do a 4 panel comic per week. Varies depending on the complexity of the scenes and what's distracting me, of course.
When I start a new chapter for Time Gate, I start the sketches and panel layouts and text and finish all of the preliminary stage in about a week, if the work time is good and if I'm not bogged down by school/Starbucks work/etc. I do these a week or so before the chapter begins in the next month.
As for the linearts and tones, I'm usually able to finish a simple page in about a couple hours. There are times I've spent up to twelve hours in a day just drawing pages, and able to get four or five pages done if it goes well. Bigger and more intricate pages take more time though, of course.
I'm actually considering doing weekly chapters instead of monthly chapters when I'm finished school, as I'm getting about 20-30 hours a week at the 'bucks right now, and I'll have more time to dedicate to comics. But it depends on how the process goes with it.
I have a general idea of what's going to happen in the story and some of it is scripted, while some still need to be. I thumbnail about 10 or so pages in advance then draw them from there. Rinse and repeat. Thumbnailing doesn't take too long. Probably an hour or two, depending on how many I'm doing.
The actual time it takes to work on a page is about 6-10 hours, give or take. For me, lineart takes FOREVER to do (like, 60% of the time I'm doing lineart....). This is why I don't even bother cleaning the lineart. In my comic, everything looks sorta sketchy, but I like it that way. haha. Coloring also takes time. I'm not very good at it. ^^;
Doing storyboards take me about 1-2 weeks per chapter. Would be much quicker if I didn't just doodle random images on pages instead of focusing on storyboarding : p Then I sketch margins for all the pages at once in one day. Sketches take another week or two. Now I ink all the frames and speechbubbles, and it takes 1-3 days.
And now is where the fun starts- inking pictures! : D it takes me about 1.5-3 hours, depending on how detailed the page is and if there are any distractions. After that scanning, editing and adding text take about half an hour per page.
I think a lot about what I'm going to draw, so when I start I know most of what is going to be on the paper.
Then I do a story-board and I sketch directly on it.
Once I'm satisfied with the scketch I do the inking.
Generally I'm working on 3-4 pages at the same time, and I spend about two hours on one page.
@raintowns you and me ... we think a like!!! i do this so often! I'm trying to at least thumbnail the whole chapter. so far the whole chapter is scripted so its a start compared to my last chapter!!!
Peppermint Helmet is a comic strip so it isn't quite the same as a traditional comic page in the planning stages. It usually takes me 1.5 hours to pencil a strip, maybe an hour to ink. Then colors/backgrounds are usually 4-6 hours. I'd say the average strip will take about 6 hours but it all depends on the detail level. The ones where I'm drawing more realistic characters take a bit longer since I have to care a little more about accurate anatomy. 
Since I do most of my work through ComiPo it usually takes me 20 minutes to make a page if I am not distracted by anything.
ComiPo is a 3D program with already made characters here it is Comipo4 While I do know how to draw I take way too much time to do so. So I find this the best way to tell the stories I have in my mind to the world.
