How long did it take to create your comic?

[NenaMataHari]

Hello, everyone! I have read comics for many years, but I have yet to make one. I do like to write, but my artistic abilities lie more in fiber and fabric arts.

Any way. How long did it take you from the first "Hey! I got a brilliant idea for a comic" to researching for the comic, drawing to figure out what your characters will look like and all that? What steps did you take?

[KoreanTacos]

Hey y'all! Sixty-Four turns four today! Four years of drawing, crying, and sometimes drawing people crying. (I cannot believe its been going so long) How old are everyone else's comics?

It's got a general idea of how long it has taken most of us to make our comics.

[nikaalexandra]

yes the thread @KoreanTacos shared is good for seeing how long comics have been running, but i also think a lot of us mulled over our ideas for a long ass time before actually getting around to creating

64 is 4 years old now as a fully conceived series available for consumption, but i actually started working on the series my junior year of highschool, 7 years ago. it took 3 years of me writing and rewriting the first chapter and reworking the world mechanics before i actually settled on a beginning i was happy with and even then i wanted to continue rewriting it.

thats a pit a lot of us fall into, this idea that there will be a perfect aligning of the planets to signify that its time to start putting your story out there but if you wait for that.... it's never gonna happen

if you want to make a comic, just take the plunge and do it. you'll thank yourself in 5 years.

[SynCypher]

I started fleshing out my comic in 2008, actually had it written and prepared and started posting in 2014, and I've been posting since. So online it's life has been about 4 years but in total about 10 years have gone into it. I didn't start posting right away back in the day because I had other priorities (college, work, etc.) but once I was done with the college bit I had more time on my hands after work to start putting effort into actively posting a comic.

[gwizdala]

My first comic I tried publishing was Finding Home, and it all started because of this one drawing here:

I drew him during class, and thought "hey that dude's pretty silly - I wonder what I could do with that?" It took about half a year of sketches before I was ready to start publishing.

The Simple Things started because I had extra notecards lying around and didn't want to use them for studying.

Whiteboard Reviews happened because I had a whiteboard, I liked doodling, and friends wanted me to try video games.

So I guess I just kind of flew by the seat of my pants for the majority of these. But hey, they've turned a year old now and I've grown a lot in the process, so that's cool!

[feuersichel]

I started my comic pretty fast after the idea came up. Like a month or somethhing like that. But I started it as some sort of practice, nothing to care about for long. But then I started to like it and now it's a longtime project xD The problem I have now: the first chaptets are looking very bad and I'll have to use a lot of time to redraw that. But if I wouldn't have started the comic I might wouldn't have improved ad fast. But learning some basic anatomy and perspective begore starting your comic is a good tip I can give you.

[heraclus]

One day , i said to myself why dont you draw a comic and i replied that's a good idea but what will be about?he said he will write the script as i draw the paper and so i did , we work so well together , thank you myself for being always there for me and give me goals on this life , i will miss you when i die , a lot .

[Kyushii]

Hey 8)

I'm a newbie! Well, 1/2 since I've been here since 2016 XD This is my first post on the forum though. I've been in the same position, like I was mostly a reader and a lot of comics were really motivating me to start my own but I couldn't really find a plausible, good idea until I dreamed of this one particular scene. It was the ending scene of this episode. https://tapas.io/episode/360118.

Idk, I felt compelled to draw it down then after a bunch of messy brainstorming, I started to select certain recurring ideas to do my reverse outline. It took me a month to settle down on the synopsis, the sketches of the characters' profiles (their backstory, their personality, the overall comic style) and the manuscript/ storyboard of the first few episodes. A lot of reading and researching the names too since I'm creating a manga and I'm not Japanese XD. So yeah, to the OP, 1 to 1 1/2 months

[Im_moron]

for me?
took a yearish of not doing anything and just kinda fester my ideas

in regards of making the comic, or at least going forward and deciding to make it into a thing, it took me a month to read tutorials and a few more months to finish the first "Arch".

otherwise, I've been working on the comic for almost 2 years by the time of writing this.

my best advice is just say "fck it" and try to make something.
second advice is you have to be contempt with failing as well, and deciding on "how you can avoid it next time", fastest way to learn is through failure.
so don't stall failure to come and just take it like a man.

edit: not to say you can have standards for your comic, just don't be focused on making every page absolutly perfect, artists use shortcuts all the time, just don't undercut the value of your art as well, if a certain story beat needs good art, go for it, it's kinda learning how to be lazy, but still be efficient and having people not notice that you were taking shortcuts.

[danitasibert]

Well I've been working on Maximum Chaos since 2015 so its going on three in March of this year!
the struggle/hustle is real but its worth ALL the sweat and tears