How long can you work on 1 comic update before losing your mind? (+poll)

[DokiDokiTsuna]

• A couple days
• A week
• A couple weeks
• A month
• A couple months
• As long as it takes

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My limit is about a week (once I start actually working seriously, of course). I feel like I should be able to finish anything in 168 hours...and when the work just keeps dragging on and on and I wake up every day with the same damn pages waiting for me it just gets U N B E A R A B L E. Then the loss of motivation slows me down even more, until the work is fueled solely by rage and desperation...

...And then, once the torture's done, I have to put on my smiley face and go "everybody read my comic~!!!1! ^^ <3" on all my social media haunts, which is a bit of a difficult transition to make.

[DualDragons]

*sigh i used to do a week perfectly fine but i've been stuck at two or more ever since i switched to partly digital. Which sucks.
Though the tradeoff is kinda worth it since the whole thing looks better now with digital colouring, effects and text.

[Rocksteady_Comics]

It generally takes me about a week per update, sometimes a bit less. That's not always continuous though (darn artblock).

[Kura]

This implies that I had a mind to lose to begin with.

[Iris-Grimoire]

About a week. I can still do it (my actual "trash this work there's no saving it" line is about three months of on-and-off working), but generally if I spent that long it's on major fixes that I should've noticed in the sketch phase and frustration builds up.

[Cervie]

if i spend more than 48 hours on a page, i will never finish them again.

[spadesart]

i start getting frustrated if a page takes more than 4 days/sessions to finish. after that point i just get really mad and tired while drawing it and it ends up making the update take longer................

[AbelDraws]

A week. I usually take around a week to finish each update, but that's because I usually only manage to work on the page for around three days x'D

If I spent a whole week (the seven days of it) working on a page and still didn't get it done I'd get quite frustrated >.>"

Edit: I remember when I was drawing my first pages digitally (not Five related, it was for another project) a page would take two weeks minimum, the process was painstakingly slow. Practice fixed that and I couldn't be happier about it

[saralj]

I usually don't spend more than 8-10 hours on a page and can do about a page a week with all my other life and work stuff

[NickRowler]

I do everything in chunks. I have sketching days, lineart days, shading/color days, and BG days. It helps keep me in a zone and I can get about two pages done a day. It also allows me to do tasks I find easier on downer days. I also helps with fixing line art issues when I look at a page again with fresh eyes a few days later.

Usually I don't want to spend more than 3 days per complete page however, I do have some pages that require more attention which is frustrating.

[AmysGames]

The only thing that bothers to me about drawing time is when I'm trying to stick to an update schedule and I have to rush out a page to meet a deadline. Other than that, I don't care at all how long it takes to draw it, haha.

[akemikae]

A week seems to be my limit before I start to swear every second as I work on the page. Or cry.

Though, lately I've been going back to bigger batch work, so at least my crying and swearing can turn into multiple updates sometimes...

[demthorshie]

It's deuces for me after about 3 days. On average, I spend no more than around 2 days per page, 3 if it's a longer one.