How long did you wait before starting your comic?

[windikite]

Hallowed was my brainchild for going on 6 or 7 years. It's been through many revisions, and is a completely different story than it was even 2 years ago. The main character has changes so much, just like the actual story itself. He has changed appearances many times, and his powers changed even more. But now I think this story is in the ideal spot. I recently updated some story pieces I found on my old ipod I lost a few years ago, and decided to keep these great ideas. I was mainly waiting on my art to get to a place I'm happy with, but realistically no one is ever happy with their art like I was expecting to be with mine. My comic is basically a giant practice session people will hopefully enjoy, as it should be. http://tapastic.com/series/Hallowed

[bmacbride]

You know when you said "Hallowed was my brainchild" I thought you meant it in the way you'd say "Hallowed be thy name", and then I got to the end of the post and realized that Hallowed is... the name of your series... I'll show myself out...

[UzukiCheverie]

Time Gate's been in the works for many, many years now (coming on 10 years). It started off as a silly fanfiction idea, and has since grown to be a huge original story with its own universe and 10 books in total. I really got the motivation to do it when I had mentioned it and people said they wanted to see Uzuki's origin story, so I've started Time Gate with its original prequel, Time Gate: Reaper.

Needless to say, I'm really glad to see it finally become something that people enjoy reading. Up until now, it's just been getting posted in novel form in places like FanFiction.Net/WattPad/etc. and has never gained any ground. It's getting going now though, and I'm really excited to continue the story and see what will come next for the series.

[sketchbooksage]

For my comic Akuma Sake, I was sitting on it for maybe 3 years. I came up with characters but something about the story didn't feel right so I put it on the back burner until I thought I had the story right but it still didn't feel right. This went on for about 2 years until something finally clicked and the pieces that I was struggling with came together.

[noctuidae]

I came up with the seed of the idea back when i was 14. i kept changing it and changing it... and four years later, in 2014 i just said to myself "okay, i should just get this thing out of my head so i can move on to other stuff." by the time i had the plot down and started drawing the comic, it barely resembled the initial idea at all.

[AnnaLandin]

Grassblades turned up as a scribble in my sketchbook and a vague idea of wanting to do something with a wandering swordsman and a little girl about.... four years ago? After that, it just sort of sat around, and I poked at the idea a few times, trying to develop some kind of storyline to go with it, but I kept hitting walls - so I just left it there.

Then, in late September last year, I finally broke through the walls! I managed to come up with a solid idea for an antagonist, and it was like the floodgates had opened - everything just magically fell into place, and I was off, scribbling storyboards and drafting outlines and finalising character designs. I got to work on the pages, and finally started posting on March 2nd this year.

... and I'll probably go on posting for years. Grassblades is going to be a beast of a story.

I'm doing a lot of short sideprojects at the same time, though - so that I get that wonderful feeling of finishing a story every once in a while. And also because I've got dozens of ideas and hundreds of characters and I don't want to just ignore them for years and years while I work on Grassblades. XD

[SpavVy]

Soul Ascendance went through many changes over the years, it started around 2009ish when I was fifteen, it used to be a vampire story and its old name was Vampire's Lullaby...Yeah...let's just say I changed everything about it and recycled most of the characters. The only one that wasn't recycled was Jack, his personality and %80 of his design stays the same, his backstory has also had a lot of thought put into it along with his development as a character. A year before I actually started doing pages I was working on my art style for the story and developing all my characters as well as trying to make my side characters interesting as well. I've reached the point it's safe enough to start the first chapter but after that I need to update designs for characters that will soon be introduced. I know what I want for the middle and the end and I try to write more for it every night.

[gateofselidor]

I think it was around two years from the initial idea to the first pages going online. I didn't start drawing until I'd spent many months world building and figuring out where the story was going, and it didn't go online until I had about 10 finished pages.

The time planning tends to vary for me by project. Sometimes I'm feeling really inspired, so I can get most of the plot down within a week or two, and then I just have to refine, rewrite and cut until I have something decent . Other times ideas I have sit around for months not really going anywhere until finally they come together. I don't start drawing actual pages until I have a good idea of where the story is going, and at least some of it scripted.

[purrlpankras]

Damn. I'm still going with my main webcomic Two Faced,
Been going on since I was a kid, The characters have changed alot.
Started doing it on Hatena Flipnote in like 2011? it has like 107 episodes... it's a long one. Now I'm recently sorting out all the plot holes
and after I finish the side story Likho, I will be starting it.

[getsuart]

Echo was at first a simple story for my video game studies in 2nd year. Then i wanted to began comics with a story, but I didn't know which one would be perfect.
So I took this one, because I liked some parts, and reworked on it for some months, maybe one year, I don't remember. It was really long because the story wasn't a good thing for a comic, there was too much hum... details turned for gaming that wouldn't work in comics, or too much clichés.
I released the first page on august 2012. Working on it since then.

[CiciEnixa]

According to my journal... I started From Dust To Ruination a week or two after going "I wanna make a webcomic".

... Yeah, I though this post of mine would be a little more exciting when I clicked the Reply button XD But yeah, that's the wait time, and not long after that, I started posting on ComicFury, and when I discovered Tapastic, I started uploading here as well.

[Cielle]

@bmacbride I actually thought that too at first >.< you're not alone!

I came up with the idea for Reus my senior year of high school back in 2010. It started as a comic I drew on some scrap paper, but I didn't have much experience with drawing at the time, so I decided to make it a novel instead. I also had never heard of webcomics at that point in time, so I didn't consider it an option. After years of trying to write Reus as a novel throughout college, I finally threw in the novel towel. It wasn't meant to be a novel; it was meant to be a comic. And I wanted to draw it, in spite of lack of experience. So my senior year of college, I started drawing a lot, got a drawing tablet, and one year later (January 2015), I started uploading it to Tapastic. Reus has changed a lot over the years, but the main concept has stayed the same (more or less).

tl;dr, it took me about 5 years to begin.

[jessicasurline]

My first ever comic I made in middle school was a long thought experiment the 4 years prior to creating pages. I slowly doodled it out through high school before dropping the project. I learned a lot from it just because I had no fear of testing out techniques or worrying about timing. I didn't do any comics for about 6 years while I was in college. Visceral, the comic Im working on now I began thinking about probably 1 year prior to actually starting the first page. It began with story bits and eventually imagery came with it. I have enough chunks of the story fleshed out to allow myself polish room as I tackle the finer details of each page. Its a shame I have to have a day job or this thing would be rolling faster. So yeah, I spend about a year or more to think things through before deciding to dedicate more energy into making it come to life.

[vsock]

Oh man, I started pumpin out comics as soon as I knew how to make them. I must have illustrated half a dozen cheesy/violent mangas in middle and highschool. Hundreds of pages.. oh those were the times, when I drew for the sake of DRAWING.

Looking back at my old comics, I remember how passionate I was about it all. I think I've lost some of that in these past few years. Things got rough after high school. I ran away from home and was thrust into adulthood over the span of a day. Drawing little humor strips on my cheap laptop relieved a lot of stress. They made my friends laugh, which made me laugh. It was a good time. There's more to the story, but that could go on for a while. ANYWAY-

Don't wait till you're "good enough" to start doing what you love. \o/

[rc360]

Back in March, I realized that I had a lot of story ideas buzzing through my head. I started writing down the synopsis of each story so they wouldn't disappear. I also began to read Tapastic again after a long hiatus (the app helped out a lot) and saw that a lot of my stories could be turned into a webcomic series. I've always wanted to work on a webcomic, but I'm a writer not an artist, so it didn't seem like my ideas would go anywhere.

I searched DeviantArt's journal portal on and off for artists looking for writers and I sent a few PMs to the few who might be still looking. A day later, I got a response back from Ciloh, who was looking to draw a one-shot manga. Now all I needed was to choose a story, but none of mine fit. So I had to think up a brand new story and went with the high school genre story. I was lucky enough to have Yuumei (Fisheye Placebo & Knite) look at two-thirds of the script's first draft and get some good feedback while she was at the Cherry Blossom Festival in San Francisco.

After a month of brainstorming together, the artwork of the first page is done with the next few pages already sketched out. Feels good!

[Iron]

I first draw and then develop the story xD
I never wait, that's how strong the addiction is hahah
And it may result sometimes in crappiness, but hey, at least one can get it out of one's system

[sh_liu]

I wish I started thinking about webcomics earlier...I had the idea to start a comic two weeks before I uploaded my first story, I was kind of in a rush to get it started (no patience).
I wish now I spent more time developing stories and drawing more before I actually started the comic. Now, each week I have to come up with a new story, which I have come to realize how hard it is =( I often spend more than a week finishing a story.

[sarahrebecca58]

Well it started out as a novel first, mostly cause I temporarily gave up the idea of doing comics (at the time I was still looking for an artist), but now sense I've gotten to the point where I can make them look vaguely like people, I decided to give it a shot myself.

And really, though I write, I really prefer comics/manga.

[ArtistHan]

I started my main comic because of a dream I had almost a year ago. I think about a month after having the dream, I realized that I had to start creating what I would eventually title as, "The Underground." I took my first figure studies course as well as a mini course on drawing comics before uploading the first chapter. However, all throughout the time I was taking classes, I was constantly writing and re-writing, designing and re-designing. So I guess I started working on it almost right away though I didn't start seriously drawing it until a few months after conceiving the idea. It was just this growing thing inside of me. I would have/will go crazy if I didn't/don't create it!

[abp02]

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