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? ._.
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.
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.
About 6 hours, usually I draw one page on the weekend and another one along the work days on my time off.
- Meeting.
- rough sketch of page.
- Bicker a bit.
- improve rough sketch.
- go for sketch.
- Bicker a bit.
- Ink sketch.
- Final approval of inked page.
- Lettering
- Send to background team.
- Wait for background artist to "get over her feelings".
- Background done, sent back to head art team.
- colors/effects added as needed.
- Sent back for final approval.
- Make slight changes here and there like always.
- Posted to Patreon. Done!
Maybe 5-7 days between pages...?
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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