How long does it take to draw a page

[KennethLopezJr921]

Recently I've been thinking about the speed and how much time it takes to start and finish a comic page. And as my first post on this forum, I'm interesting in knowing how long it takes you guys to start and finish a page. It doesn't have to be specific, just an estimate I'll start with this off with how long it takes me.

For me, I can finish a black and white page faster than a colored one, but it can vary. For example, there was one page that I began sketching and finished inking and coloring within around a 3 to 4 hour time span. It also depends on the complexity of the scene, like the panel has a dynamic shot for example, or I have to draw one or more characters, or if I have to include a background for the scene. It also depends on if I don't get distracted while drawing which happens a lot.

Now it's y'all's turn!

[Scarlet_Cryptid]

It takes me about 10-11 hours to turn this:

into this:

Not counting time spent scanning, color-correcting, adding text, and sizing for the web. But I do traditional art (that's all marker), so there aren't any shortcuts, which is probably why it takes me so long. Because of this, I can only put out a page a week-- each one is a LOT of work.

[FafasMcMelt]

anywhere from 20 to a billion hours

[hakei]

I'm not sure about one page, but generally I can crank out two pages a day (sometimes three if there isn't much to draw)

[KennethLopezJr921]

Two pages a day is impressive! I dont even know how one could do it :0

[yumeryuu]

Portrait panels like the one above take me about 2 hours from start to finish. While complicated scenes like the one below would take me about 3 1/2 to 4 hours.

[delladz]

Oh boy uh?? Not counting the time i take inbetween drawing, I'd say the total is probably like 15-20 hours for a whole page? But my pages are pretty long and I'm only working in black and white

[jeffanime1]

Depends on the complexity of the page. could from 3 to 10 or longer. like this one

[hpkomic]

I don't time myself, really, because that would probably drive me mad. It also depends on the complexity of the page, but generally, I find myself spending about two hours on a sketch, an hour or so on inking, and about 40 minutes on coloring. With probably double that amount of time tweeting or messing around on the internet.

[onyisart]

It takes me forever because i spend more time on social media and doing everything else but draw lol

[TedGravesArt]

Hard to say. I do all the pencils for each issue in one streak, usually I get around 2-3 done a night, then it usually takes me about an evening to do inks for each page, then an evening to do colors for each page. So maybe around 19 hours per page from start to finish? Depends on the page too, pages with fewer panels often take less time.

This one took around that long though, because of all the debris.

[Tanidreams]

Hi! Yeah it depends on the style, details, and how much background is in it.

A page like this one took me overall 1.5-2 hours to do:

A page like this one only took at most half an hour

[cookieroach]

It takes around 2-3 hours for me, counting from when I have the thumbnails ready. But I work in grayscale and have a simple style, if I worked in colour it would take forever.

Edit: here’s my latest page just to show an example

[Theo]

Depends, around 8-10 hours? But it depends what bg and how many characters. And if I somehow chose weird angle I'm not used to... RIP. Heh, that happened a lot when I was starting initial pages lol.