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Nov 2015

Sadly, i write/draw 30-90 minutes per day, max, usually late at night after kids go to bed. Fulltime job, parent, husband, youth leader volunteer - lots of other competing priorities. this is definitely my 'relax time'.

Not nearly enough :anguished: Sometimes I can go days without drawing, either because I just don't have the time or because I'm too tired to get anything done, and then I feel guilty for not spending all the time I can on drawing since I have so little time for it to begin with. And I also try to work as a freelance illustrator/graphic designer while having a full-time job, so other types of drawing sometimes just doesn't happen. When I do have the time, it's usually no more than 1-3 hours (that's weekdays). This is one of the few things I miss about being a student. I had a lot more time for drawing than after I got a full-time job. And I thought it would be the other way around...so naïve :S

So true. Every once in a while I think that I can manage at least one day a week with like...only four hours of sleep, and I'll stay up late and draw, and then I'll be reduced for DAYS, because I never manage to catch up with the lack of sleep. So I actually end up having less energy and time for drawing as a result.

Also true! My wrists have survived so far, but due to having a job where I do very similar movements with my arms as when I draw, I got shoulder pain that lead to inflammation and had to quit working and drawing for a while...

I hear you. If I didn't get up early, I'd be in exactly the same bed. And I'm not complaining, because I have a blessed life, but I just sometimes wish there were more hours in a day.

Yep, I've learned the hard way that sleep is not something to mess with. Lack of sleep causes real physical and mental strain. It's difficult to do anything without good health, let alone something as difficult as keeping up with a comic.

As to the RSI stuff, I've thankfully not suffered from overuse, even though my job often requires similar movements to drawing (design and photo retouching). Fingers crossed it never happens. (pun intended)

I think i draw at least 8 to 9 hours a days, that's if I am not doing other things like work and other life tasks.

I'm currently jobless at the moment so i pretty much try to draw all day everyday! (well sometimes on the weekends too if i'm not too busy with church related activities)

I like to pump as much time as I can on my comics. Sometimes even if i'm really tired. mostly because im too excited to rest and just want to hop back into it!

I do take breaks though! and I'm trying to enforce more of it too since it's not too good to over work yourself!

I could spend whole day on drawing during my vacations, with small breaks for eating. Now it can be up to 4-5 hours I think. I mostly draw at night. I think the older I get the less I spend on drawing Dx
And of course if you get better you devote more and more time... WHY DID I START TO MAKE BACKGROUNDS!? It looks so pretty but takes so much time ;_;

1-2 hrs everyday, with break in between, and I keep it like that in the weekends too
it's toxic in many ways if i just do too much of sth - in drawing specifically, it ruins my skills

I usually spend 8-10hours a day. Still, I feel like it's still not enough cus I can't get most of my original content done because I prioritize the paid artworks. -_-

5-6 hours a night. Working a night shift job with lots of free time in between kinda helps with comic-ing.

I try to spend at least an hour a day. But on weekends, if i dont restrain myself, i can spend an upwards of 5 hours.

for the sake of having hobbies other than drawing, i try not to spend too much time on it.

I am impressed by the number of hours some of you out into drawing. And I can't imagine when you add hours on social media, tapastic, and promoting the comic in general.

I only draw in the train on the way to work and back. It was 2 hours this summer. Now it is up to 3 hours per day.
I do a page in 10 h so that's very much needed!

Basically all the time. I wake up and make some drawing or sketch to warm up, that usually takes an hour or two. Then I work on my comic, making three squares a day which takes really all day, maybe like 8 hours. Then I usually take a break, but sometime after dinner I get this urge to draw again and I make another picture or just sit and sketch in my sketchbook, just doodling and stuff, so maybe another three hours there. That's like 12 hours, haha, basically all the time I'm awake...

When I do draw it becomes an all day thing, two days ago my hand locked up wicked bad. That has never happened to me before.

I doodle a lot at work but I'll start actually working each night as soon as I can get the kids in bed and asleep. I'll usually get about 1-3 hours depending on how wound-up they are. LOL

In a day in which I have nothing to do like work or something else, 6 hours.
When I'm busy, I try at least to draw 3 hours.

If I have a project (from a publishing company, which I have to draw 3 colored illustrations, 1 for the cover and 2 for the illustrations inside the book.) I have to draw at least 8 hours a day to meet the deadline (but depends on the complexity of the scenes and characters I have to draw). But I usually push myself harder to work 10-12 hours a day on weekdays, so I can finish it faster. So that I can have extra time for my comic-making ;w; and I'll rest or go somewhere or to the mall with my bf on weekends. If I don't have a project, I usually work on a personal drawings and/or comics for 5-8 hours a day.