How long is your buffer?

[rmdooley]

I only start posting a chapter when it is completely done (save the inevitable last minute touch-ups right before posting) so if I continue to post at one page a week my buffer is just shy of 90 weeks.

[joannekwan]

I'm about 4 updates ahead for Heavy Horns, the only series I can make a buffer for right now on my schedule since it's black and white.
My other series don't have a buffer and I'm flying by the seat of my pants.

[TAMAnnoying]

I used to be a month and a half ahead so about four updates if not more.... then the holidays hit, I’m not perpetually two updates ahead of myself until I can pick up steam and get my buffer buffer again. X_x

[ryoko]

aaaaahhh.....buffer....how I wish you were longer right now X.x I'm just barely 1.5 weeks ahead because of extra hours at work and the pages are taking me longer because they're so much more complicated to draw X.x There are some weeks that I've got no buffer, but that's because Patreon is ahead by several pages to everywhere else.

Ideally, I'd like to have a month's worth or buffer, which for me would be around 12 pages. Buffers really do make you feel less stressed ^_^;;

[soyasholm]

I post 2 pages a week and my buffer is about 11 pages ahead so about a month. I'd like to make it even bigger if I can manage to haha.

[ZombieOwl]

I've been on hiatus to work on my buffer this month, so I'm up to 5 weeks

I'm very happy because now I can work in batches; so much nicer for my style of doing things I was hoping to get closer to 8 weeks, but not bad for a start! I'm hoping it'll give me time to think about other comics I want to make

[ButterflyEmpress]

Mine is between 55-60 pages, but it took me so long to get that much due to school and work. I planned it out so that it'll last me 'til next January. Hopefully it'll buy me enough time to create another 50-60 pages.

I heard that some people make week or month long buffers, so maybe I over did it lol.

[Rhonder]

so maybe I over did it lol.

Literally impossible, there's 0 downsides to doing more work up front xD I feel like a lot people are either just too impatient to stockpile that many pages up front (that me), or are in the middle of posting already and don't have the luxury of time to build that much buffer even with a hiatus @u@ either way, def jelly of a year's worth of buffer! way to go

[beta1042]

Hmm I usually have about 6 weeks of buffer, but I've been building up in anticipation for the birth of my kid in March, so right now i have about 11 updates and I've went down to a reduced schedule of 3x updates a month, so nearly 4 months of buffer for me at the moment. Hoping I can get the 12th ep of buffer before the kiddo comes.

[Pandastrophic]

Not long enough lol.
My current work schedule is kinda weird, I upload early on Patreon so I'll always be at least 1 update ahead, I think having the patreon early access is the best thing ever, it gets me to actually finish the episode and upload it without making last minute decisions. The next update after than is coloured but I need to arrange the paneling properly and add text, I have the episode after that lined.

[Shanny8]

Currently none...with the bit of slump I've been going through, plus how this January has been draining me of energy & motivation, I've been doing my best to keep up. Might get a little motivation next month, when I do this small local con...

[punkarsenic]

right now my buffer iiiiiis....... 14 pages long, 7 updates, just under two months. which is around about the amount of time i need to make the next chapter. i need to be snappy with all that though, bc after that comes my Final Final Final project in college and i think im gonna be decimating my buffer again.

[kip]

woah thats incredible! id never have the patience for that

[kip]

late to my own party but generally my buffer has always been none! the only time i ever had a buffer was Before starting to post a series (then id let it run out oops) or when im Right at the end of it and i wanna give it that last push (which is why regression's last couple of weeks were double updates lol)

HOWEVER lortia has made me realize my mistakes (and also im going to a 1 month trip to japan soon where i wont be able to draw soooo)
9 weeks ahed atm!

[deadaccountrip]

I don’t have one

[dawgofdawgness]

I literally have (-)2 pages of buffer.

[racarter]

My buffer hasn’t been entirely uploaded yet but, right now I think it’s roughly 33 pages long.

I’m working on chapter 4 right now so once I finish the first half of that I’ll have 15 more pages. By the time I get it all fully drawn and colored, it’ll probably leave me with 45 pages because I’ll probably finish up when I have 25 pages left in my current buffer and then just tack on 15 more pages.

Probably. Hopefully. I keep getting faster at everything so I’m sure my buffer will keep growing. XD

But yeah I gotta have a big buffer cuz I never know when something will get sprung on me, disrupting my whole work flow.

[kittyblueeyes]

......I need a buffer.

[Kittosaurus]

Me too! Seeing everyone else's buffers I admit I'm pretty jealous!

[Shanny8]

If I could get rid of my body aches, I'd have no problem creating a buffer...