How long does it take you to do a page?

[jessicasurline]

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 Whetstone right now. But that won't be released for a couple weeks.

[DeadAccount]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Shiori_Saku]

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]

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!!

[Stinahhh]

How anyone gets it done under 5 hours amazes me. I should time myself but I make the scrolling type, not the single panels.

[AshKetchup]

For my random comics series it literally takes me 10-20 minutes to make (you can guess why). As for The Adventures of Bob! It takes a couple hours, maybe around 2-3... This is because I don't exactly have a plan or story board for AoB, I just make up the story as I go along, so it takes some time for me to put down an idea for it

[hushicho]

Yeah, I feel exactly the same way. All through Incubus Tales, I was doing traditional linework, scanning it in, and then doing digital finishes. I decided that when Incubus Tales was coming to an end, it would be the last work I would do that way, and I'm much happier doing purely digital work with Manga Studio/Clip Studio Paint. Erasing roughs was always such a pain, plus you could seriously mess up even without really meaning to or doing anything strictly wrong.

Plus, I really like being able to look at my roughs/pencils if I want or need to somewhere down the line. It's nice to have them just a click away! Sometimes it can also help others that I'm helping along their way, to show them my process...and I can't do that if the roughs are gone. So it's overall such a time saver and such a help. I'm so glad for digital solutions!

[eschaefges]

Pages I am happy with:

Pencils/Inks: 3 hours
Colors: 6 hours

Pages I stopped caring about and just want to be done:

Pencils/Inks: 2 hours
Colors: 3 hours

[rairy]

depends on the page. If the page only focus on characters, usually took about 2-3hours. If there's lots of bg, 5 - 6 hours.

[heterodont]

It takes me 2 hours on average on a good day to finish a page. The whole day if I'm fighting an art block.

[Doubtcent]

Depends on what the detail is.
If it's a simple comic, I'll be done in maybe 3 hours.
If it's a complex scene with tons of color and stuff... 5+.
I once took ten hours (on separate days) working on a comic. It came out great, but I seriously lost a lot of time in creating it.

[oshirockingham]

I'm slow AF, it took me 30-45 minutes to sketch a page, 2 hours of lining every panel (usually 4 panels each page), and 2 metal albums (approx. 80- 110 minutes) each panel for the coloring, 30 minutes of writing the dialogue each page.
and mostly I have 5 pages on each episode.

so, that would be:
30 + 480 + 240 + 30 = 780 minutes (13 hours per page) 13 x 5 = 65.

So the total time I spent to make an episode is 65 hours on my faster side, theoretically, that's only 2,7 days.
Well, in reality, it's only achievable if I'm a machine, but since I'm just a human, sometimes it took me more than 2 weeks to finish an episode.

[Haruh2]

hm not sure on pages, but in terms of panels currently it takes me about 4 hours or so to do 12 panels (line art) and 2 hours to do color and bubbles

but that should be changing soon since I use to do 2 panels per clip studio document