How long does it take you to draw a single panel?

[shatterjure]

Question in the title.

[Melinda]

The shortest was 5 minutes and the longest was one hour >_<
For me lineart and backgrounds usually takes more time rather than coloring

[nessiefynn]

Depends on the panel. Shots of just one person's face with a gradient background probably take me 10-15 minutes from sketch to completion, but if the panel involves a difficult angle and multiple figures, it can take me quite a bit longer.

^ This panel took me like two hours because the perspective was hard and I'm still not satisfied with it. >.<

[R.n.P]

It takes me less than three minutes I guess, the only problem I get when drawing my work is my inking and pencil shading.

[feuersichel]

Way too long xD But I'm drawing traditionally and this takes time. But it depends on the panel. If there is a lot of background stuff to draw, it can take me several hours from sketch to finished.

This one took me I think half a day or something. I'm not really counting anymore xD

[igneriss]

10 minutes to an hour, depending on how big the panel is and how many details it has ( :

[WakaXO]

Depends on the panel. Shots of just one person's face with a gradient background probably take me 10-15 minutes from sketch to completion,

What?! Your so fast! It takes me forever to get anything done... 😅

[niinasalmelin]

1min-1hour. Both of these extremes are rare and usually it's something in between. If we count in coloring then it's whole different story

[gateofselidor]

Anywhere between 1 hour and at maybe 40 hours? It varies hugely depending on the content.

[acealmansoori]

actually I do mine in phases.. xD I sketch the whole page pretty quickly. I linearted them in few months, the coloring is easier somehow. in general it would take me no more than 2 hours if I did a whole page from scratch. For example this one, I did as a filler.

[Starfestival]

Depends on what I'm putting in it. If it's just characters and easy background stuff maybe 2-3 minutes. If I have to draw something I hardly know how to do like, a city.. maybe close to an hour of using heavy reference.

[miseryhunting]

Wow, are you guys all superhumans? I guess I'm falling behind.
It can take me from 5 min to 30 to figure the right concept for the page. Then for me to be happy with the sketch - from 1h to 4h, 1h for lineart and 40m - 1h for colouring. 20m for extra bubbles and lines.
It usually takes me a full day/night to complete a page, sometimes more.

[Sketchu]

omg i have no idea, roughly an hour for most i think ? I am gonna record myself next time

[avalonmao]

It depends on the panel, lol. Like some of my most ornate and detailed panels take more than 4 or 5 hours. It's such a pain in the ass.
For example, a page that had many such panels (that has yet to be released lol):

Also, I have absolutely no idea how much time this monstrosity took:

This will also be released.
If i'm drawing a ton of bg characters, where I don't outline them or anything, it takes considerably less time.

[carloswebcomic]

[garrowtyler]

About 39 minutes per panel for WWU

[J.Z.Castillo]

It really depends how much I have going on, but I will say it takes me anywhere from 30 mins to two hours. I think that's pretty fast.

[AnnaLandin]

Depends entirely on content!

If it's a simple headshot, sketch-to-finished-colours would take me maybe 15-20 minutes? If it's a more complex panel with lots of detail in the environment or tricky perspective and lots of foreshortening, it might be upwards of an hour, an hour and a half.

... It's hard for me to estimate. I mean, I don't work on my comics panel by panel. I do it stage by stage; sketch the entire page, ink the entire page, do flats for the entire page, etc. Time spent finishing a whole page varies from a low of 3 hours for super-simple pages to a high of 12 hours for super-complex, crowded pages.

[Shanny8]

Depends on the level of detail on the panel. Any where from 15-20 minutes for a head shot/shoulder bust to about an hour or more for full figures and a detailed background.

I dont draw a panel, ink a panel; I usually pencil out about 4 pages then ink the 4 pages. Each stage usually takes about a week per stage. When starting out, I mainly use my weekdays to rough layout pages; I then tighten pencils over the weekend...the next week I ink the pages. Inking tends to go faster coz I have the tightened pencils to follow.

[SpavVy]

For me it really depends on what it is...

If I'm drawing a small panel and let's say I'm drawing something simple like and eye for example, then that will take probably less than five minutes to sketch in.
A bigger panel can take me hours especially if it involves certain kinds of perspective or lots of detail.
On average, pages can take me 8-14 hours but lately it's been turning into days due to lack of wanting to draw xD

I also don't do any of my sketching or inking on the computer so I need to be a little more careful.