Mmm.... 1-3 hours a day at the moment. I want to increase the hours though!
Well, it depends on where I am with the comic. Usually it's 1-4 hours on a workday, weekends vary from a couple to ALL OF THE HOURS : D
But reading other people's replies, I feel like I should link to this very important post that's been making rounds on Twitter.31 It's great to practice, but take care of yourself, too! Mental health is a fragile thing, and so are wrists. I know so many people who had to take really long breaks because of tendonitis/RSI.
I try to sqeeze in at least 1 hour a day, 2-3 at a weekend day. Sleep, cooking and free time is important for me; more important than drawing I guess. My deepest repect to all of you who study (or work full time, like me) and still draw several hours a day.
About 9 hours on school days :b if it's not a school day, I take up the whole day drawing for about 10 hours (more or less, give and take the lunch hours in between). Especially since I have #dailydoodles to draw on Twitter8.
I usually take day-offs if my arm starts hurting :]
I have a full time job, so Monday to Friday I get maybe an hour a day out of my breaks, and in the evenings it varies depending on what else I have to do and how tired I am. At most I can get another three hours in, at worst I won't do any in the evening. Weekends I can get ten hours per day if I have nothing else on, otherwise it might get knocked down to five or so.
Yeah, when I started I was hoping for a page a week, and when I realised that was never going to happen, I shot for a page a fortnight. And I can do that, even with two jobs and family commitments. Then I got shingles on my damn forehead from stress, which knocked me on my arse for a month.
Since then, I aim for a page every three weeks, and if that blows out, I don't beat myself up. I have so many commitments in my life, I have to remind myself that even if I want nothing more than to spend a day drawing, if that's not possible, eating into my sleep to make up for that isn't the solution. Maybe one day if I can make any money off this thing I'll be able to reprioritize, but until then, I can only dream of allocating 10 hours to draw in a single day.
One should not forget that for a lot of artists here, drawing is a hobby or a passion, and IMO that shouldn't be more than you can handle.
Frankly, I've got no idea. :'D
But I guess it averages somewhere around 7 hours a day atm as I do not have much other commitments. When I've got school then the hours rack easily up to 10+ as I go to an art school. Basically it varies a lot. Buuuut the fact remains that, I spend most of my waking life drawing nowadays.
Same here! I just started a job 1 month ago and today made a post on my wall saying how I can't keep up the a page a week schedule. I always comfort myself by saying that I am in this for the long term so every little step, no matter how small it is, counts! Good luck, Scythe!
Wow, guys, do you even sleep or eat sometimes? ; U;
I spend about 1 hours a day during week days (there are days that it's nothing at all, and there are days when I catch up with drawing). During the weekend, it's up to 3 hours per day.
I used to think it's quite a lot, but now reading other posts makes me kinda feel bad about how little time I actually spend on drawing ; -;
Reading this makes me kinda miss the times when I had time to draw close to 10 hours a day. I actually do very little random sketching these days, most of my time drawing daily goes straight to working on comic pages. I wish I could get more time to draw again but between a part time job that is getting eerily close to having full time hours at this point and then maybe wanting to spend time with friends and doing boring adult stuff it really gets kinda difficult.
I also realize that many of the people who can draw 10+ hours a day either have to have a day job that relates to that or are still in school (oh high school times, how I miss drawing through each and every lesson).
Hmm, so how many hours a day? Maybe I can get to the 10 hours on days off, working days I'll reach 2-3 hours max usually and those hours are not always 100% concentrated on drawing so it is hard to tell.
I tend to draw for roughly 2 hours or more a day. Some days I've gotten up to five just through slow doodling... But recently its gone way down since I'm working on writing to finish up a story that I've been working on for a long time.
Well there's 24 hours in a day...
I work around 6-8 hours a day,
Sometimes I have school or other commitments...
Then there's sleep and eating.
So I draw from 3-6 hours a day?
I really don't like that I can't do anything else during the week.
Most days, I draw for a minimum of 5 hours, but most days, it's a lot more than that. I mean, I draw for a living, so some days I'll draw for 10 hours straight.
