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AnnaLandin
Mar '16

Depends on the content of the page - more panels with more people+complicated environments mean more time, fewer panels with less complicated stuff means less time, but once I'm past the thumbnails, it breaks down something like this for Grassblades3:

Sketch - 1-2 hours
Ink - 1-2.5 hours
Colours - 2-4 hours.

So, a page takes me somewhere between 4 and 8 hours to complete, sketch to finish. Grassblades is full colour, and I hand-draw everything except for the dialogue-lettering. Black and white pages take a little less time, usually, so somewhere between 3-5.

R.n.P
Mar '16

30 minutes for a page but if its a single panel for a page I can do it under 5-10 minutes
I make at least 15 pages in three days cuz of my studies then I finish inking within 3 days to make an episode/chapter a week for my comic2

demthorshie
Mar '16

I estimated that it takes me about 6-8 hours to make a page for Cosmos Song2. The Longer pages I make on Tuesdays generally take 8+ hours, this includes the coloring part as well.

niinasalmelin
Mar '16

Let's see.. Drawing one page of Numb2 takes about 1-2 hours. Then colouring adds 3-5 hours since I do it with watercolour. Then there's the scanning and texting which is maybe 1 hour. So it's about 8 hours roughly. It's a bit hard to tell since I usually draw beforehand some 20 or 30 pages and then start to colour them and then draw again.

For Little Tales1 on the other hand I think one page is about 1-2 hours. No colours on that one.

legendriders96
Mar '16

Well, in our case, we can make like 5 pages a day if we focus, since we're two people and all. One will be doing the lineart while the other one is colouring, sometimes panel by panel. However, the result doesn't really meet our quality standards, so we tend to take our sweet time, so it goes from one to three days, depending on the schedule. We do all our panel arrangement, speech bubbles, text, sound effects, colouring, shading, and backgrounds by hand like the lineart, so it's a lot of work in the end. It depends on the page how long each section takes, but in total, I think it's the lineart that takes the most time.

Sadly, a lot of times other stuff comes first, like school, so the process tends to drag on even more. =3=;

thomasfallaeriksen
Mar '16

It depends on the page size and the drawing style.
My main project Squidology takes the most time. The process up until I have a finished lineart drawing usually take from 6 to 8 hours. Then the coloring can take just as much time. Sometimes even more. These are in A3 size.
Another series I have called Tether only have one simple drawing on each page. These pages are A4 sized and usually takes from 1,5 to 2,5 hours. Another project I'm working on now have A3 sized pages, but are drawn in a cleaner style than I usually do. No hatching, but with a lot of heavy shading. In this project I can do sketching, lineart and colors in 8 hours if I work focused and effective.
But it usually look like this when I have the time to focus on it. I work freelance, so when I don't have a paid project to work on I pretty much draw comics from I wake up until I go to bed.

getsuart
Mar '16

Too much time. Maybe 8 to 12 hours... ? i'm working on multiple apges at the same time now, so I don't know.

KreativeConfusion
Mar '16
Kelty

It sounds like your comic takes a lot more work then mine and its nothing to be ashamed of XD. It really comes down to style and mine is pretty simple so I can get a page up every week.

Damatris
Mar '16

I always forget to time myself even when I try to. :'D And I usually work on multiple pages at the same time now so that makes it even harder too.

But I think it takes me around 10 - 15 hours to complete a page depending on how many panels etc. I know I've gotten faster lately but I have no idea how much... But yeah, I'd really like to be able to trim my production time down to 10 hours which I think can be done even if I do have quite detailed full color comic. It's just a matter of getting more used to drawing it and learning better working methods.

On a good week some time ago when I also didn't have much any other obligations, I was able to draw 3.5 pages and a bunch of thumbnails so I know I can work faster than I usually do. xD

jessicasurline
Mar '16

Depending on the page, it varies between 4-6 work days, and that is excluding preproduction. I like to spend about 2 days penciling and that sometimes includes a little reference searching. I typically complete inking in one day and marker rendering takes 2 days. I wish I could go faster but you can't have high quality done too quickly. I'm actually in the process of recording the inking and coloring portion of a page for Whetstone1 right now. But that won't be released for a couple weeks.

DeadAccount
Mar '16

Damn guys, I'm jealous. I take about 15 hours on each page of Drugs & Wires - sometimes more if i've got reference to plan and prepare. I think I got a bit faster, but there's only so many corners I can cut without compomising the quality.

dglisson
Mar '16

My workflow is a bit weird, so I'll try to break it down.

It usually takes me three days to write my script.

It takes me 2 hours to pencil and 2 hours to ink each page - 4 hours.

Color flatting each page on the iPad probably takes me about 3 hours each page.

Then the actual coloring/shading process which I do in batches of 3 pages or 6... and that one can take me about 5 hours by itself, so per page it breaks down to over an hour for coloring on each page...

Then finally, 30 minutes to letter each page.

So ultimately---way too freakin' long!!!!

HVOICE
Mar '16

If I spent time on one page only, I could probably knock it out in a day.
That is to say if I actually had a full 24 hours to myself though...

Shanny8
Mar '16

It depends on the number of panels versus the amount of detail and art I have on a page. If it's strictly black and white art, traditionally I work at 8 hours to a page a day. Digitally, I'm still assessing that.

If you add color into the equation, the main statement still applies- amount of detail versus panels, and effects. If i stick to a certain scheme and process, I can usually cut my coloring time down to about 5 hours(minimum) per page- and that has been since I've gotten adept at using my Wacom tablet; when I was coloring with a mouse it used to take me an entire day. The reason the process has gotten a little longer is that I discovered texture brushes; there's always a conscious battle to use texture/effects and make sure I'm not overdoing it

If you add in lettering, it's not too much. I usually go into lettering, knowing what I want the end process to look like- since I dont have a balloon template library/file(storage file for premade and frequently used word balloons) the process is a little slow. I usually letter a page at the rate of hour or less.

I dont draw/ink a page, color same page, and letter same page. I usually draw/ink most of my pages first, then comeback & color them, then come back again and letter.

grovylegirl
Mar '16

i usually take a lot of breaks when I draw. But usually it takes me to 4-8 hours if i really have to i'll stop and then continue the next day.

Aspie_Gamer
Mar '16
hushicho

I agree. MS5/Paint Tool Sai/Medibang Paint has made comic making significantly easier as a whole. I mainly like how I can erase something as many times as I please without ruining the paper I'm drawing on. Not having to erase sketched lines is also a time saver for me. I just have to hide the rough draft layer in MS5 and bam, no blue lines. I also try to shoot for organic dialogue in my comic. I often "act out" conversations my OC's would have in future chapters well in advance and act them out repeatedly until I can remember the gist of what my characters are going to say. (one thing I like about being an aspie myself. Repetition in this case helps a lot). In the past, I would try to type out a script, but then as I got around to drawing the pages I would often either condense or eliminate whole lines of dialogue in favor of keeping LoaA flowing at a brisk pace.

In other words, I don't want to make my readers suffer through too much freakin dialogue ala a Bioware game.

Ringarune
Mar '16

I can't exactly specify since each page has a different level of intricacy. I have some super simple pages that take around an hour, and others with lots of panels everywhere which can take 5+ hours

Sonnio
Mar '16

Anywhere between 3 - 8 hours. But then again my comics are only one page with 3 - 10 panels

Shiori_Saku
Mar '16

Depending on how many panels are on each page Star Watcher can take anywhere from 4 to 10 hours to complete one page. It may be a grey-scale comic but I work really hard to make sure none of the colors blend in together so well that they cant be distinguished from each other.

noctuidae
Mar '16

last time i timed myself it took me around 5 hours for a page with 6-7 panels, from sketch to finish. i'm impatient and life is too short. i got other shit to do!!