How Long Does It Take You To Finish Up a Single Page?

[TheGentleArtist]

It takes me a couple of days to get a full-colored page out; granted that is using techniques to speed up the process, but I am getting faster though.

[Legendofgenii]

I'm embarrassed to say. Haha! Like two weeks sometimes - depending on what's happening on said page. Which is mad as it will be probably be read in seconds.

It's my little escape though, so I don't mind.

[Llyrel]

It... wildly varies depending on the medium I'm using, lol. My prologue and the first chapter were all done in traditional technique, but for chapter 2 I'm switching to digital for most pages... not because it is less time-consuming, but because it costs me less (seriously, I was running out of markers every two pages while working traditionally D: ) and, given that my country is still being subjected to random lockdowns due to Covid-19, getting traditional art supplies may not be as easy in the future.

So I'd say... from three to five hours for traditional coloring and up to seven hours for digital only? ._.

[BeautifulDoubt]

I usually have to do sketching on a separate day than everything else.
I get motivation so I sketch 1-8 pages depending on how long I have to spend on it. the pages vary by panel but ill say 45 min per page.
then on days when i have less creative juju I can listen to music and just chill doing lineart which per page is again like an hour of tracing
then another separate day I finish with the color and tones and junk. which is at least an hour.

So Per page its roughly 3 hours spread over 3 days, because of the way my brain works.

[Legendofgenii]

Inking is my favourite part too. You can just switch off for that bit. It's a nice break between the horrors of sketching & colouring. Haha!

[SagaHolmgaard]

Well, I'd hazard a guess that one page takes around 4-5 hours. But that's spread out over a month of working on a batch of five-ish pages simultaneously.

[seiraph]

I usually work on the whole chapter at once, I find the art turns out more consistent that way, how long that takes depends entirely on the chapter length tbh but when I do work on a single page from start to end its between 2 and 4 hours total depending on how much detail the scene has

[rumpenstiltzkin]

So far i have been sketching out one chapter at a time, and i dont really know how long that take tbh

But to finish my pages after the initial rough sketch/thumbnail is done (detailed sketch - text/ballons - lineart - color - fixes) it takes between 2-5 hours per page according to procreate (i would be totally clueless how long it takes if it wasnt for procreate )
But I also aim to have a very simple style and as little details as possible so I can get pages done fast. Those that take me close to 5 hours is when I have a bit more detailed backgrounds.

[malwdark]

About 6 hours, usually I draw one page on the weekend and another one along the work days on my time off.

[scribesunlimited]

1. Meeting.
2. rough sketch of page.
3. Bicker a bit.
4. improve rough sketch.
5. go for sketch.
6. Bicker a bit.
7. Ink sketch.
8. Final approval of inked page.
9. Lettering
10. Send to background team.
11. Wait for background artist to "get over her feelings".
12. Background done, sent back to head art team.
13. colors/effects added as needed.
14. Sent back for final approval.
15. Make slight changes here and there like always.
16. Posted to Patreon. Done!

Maybe 5-7 days between pages...?

[jcmraz]

Depends on the page. Usually between 8 and 15 hours

[Eiranyx]

Usually, if it isn't colored (and if it is a manga page) I take around 2 days to finish a page including the tones, and typesetting the dialogues. If it's colored however, it takes around 3-5 days, including the shades/tones and typesetting the dialogues, depending with how many panels are there in a page, how complex the scene is and if it has detailed background. On average, each page I'm working on have at least 5-10 panels in scroll format.

[AilyneGouveia]

2 weeks. however, one of my pages averages 50 to 60 panels.

[nathanKmcwilliams]

In general about 5 hours. Usually that's spread out through the week. But I can bang out a simple 3 panel page in 3 hours if there's no backgrounds.

[Phantomlight]

I hear backgrounds are the bane to a lot of artist's existences xD And I get where they're coming from. My more complex backgrounds are time consuming and a bit tedious but so worth it ^^ I always push myself to make more setting-the-scene backgrounds rather than my more simpler ones. I can appreciate people who make backgrounds even ones that are a bit more simple but still take time and work!

[sartinjacqueline05]

It takes me at least a week. Depending on the number of panels. I do about half of them with each task each day. I try to limit my comic time to about 4-6 hours per day so i can manage my work schedule and comic schedule in the same day as well as have time for eating and gaming and any errands i have to run as well as get enough time for sleep. I've been doing biweekly uploads so I can have a break from it because while making my comic is fun and makes me happy, its also exausting along side my day job. But it works out so yay.

[CttMaurice]

I haven't made colored pages alone, but I will do my best to translate it over. It would typically take me around 3 full workdays to get it done, maybe if I work hard on it I will be able to finish it in 1 and a half days which is incredibly daunting. I have the issue where I barely do backgrounds too so if I do manage to make them it would add a couple of hours to the work.

I've made multiple techniques to help me out with speeding up the process but it still takes time.

[somekh]

Roughly 3 hours from start to finish :'D but that's also because in my years as an artist I have developed a LOT of shortcuts, tricks, and tips to move as quickly as possible without sacrificing quality.

You'll get faster as you go and learn the tricks to the trade!!!

[ButterflyEmpress]

I'd say about 3-5 hours a page if I work non-stop. Sometimes shorter if the page is just one panel. I tend to draw pages in batches over a course of a few weeks so this is a rough estimate.

Comic pages take me longer than my usual illustrations because I have to thumbnail and map out the panels across the chapter's pages. Although this could be less time consuming if I got better at writing detailed scripts.

[WoollyPAR]

The pages themselves take me about 1-3 hours, but I take breaks so those 1-3 hours are spread out over several hours to a few days