I get in at least 3 hours a day, and usually more on the weekends, but I'm interested in finding out how much you all manage to squeeze in.
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Uhhh, lets say like... at a minimum 6 hours. I generally start drawing after I finish homework and work until like midnight-ish. I take breaks of course, but yeah.
So probably spend like double that on weekends when I'm at home.
hmm. On weekdays, probably an hour or two. On weekends or days when I don't have classes, it's from the moment I wake up to when I go to sleep. lol. Usually, 12pm - 2am.
I actually had to track how long I do artwork per day for an art business class I took in college and it's averaged at 9 hours a day.
Y'all are making me feel bad. Between work, time with the fam and other commitments, I'd have to forego sleep altogether to get those kinds of hours in. Except I don't think I'd be able to keep my hand steady on less than 7 hours a night. That and the whole early grave thing.
as sketching: always. just when im eating, sleeping or whatever i dont sketch.
then there s the rest... pen for the comic? less than 10min.
ink? damn i hate it. maybe 1h every 2 weeks,
on PS/digital: somedays some hours... other i dont even open it.
depending on the day I'll draw anywhere form 1 to 5 hours. sometimes ill go as far as 9 hours but thats only on my days off. I usually try to stop myself so i can spend 1 or 3 hours on writing for my books.
I also try to juggle three table top games a week and work so Im kind of all over the place :v
I ALWAYS try to at least spend one hour a day drawing (or at least draw a little sketch if it was a super draining day at work )
You're making me feel bad, Scythe. I waste precious time that could have been used drawing because even when I have free time after work, I sometimes give in to the temptations of my S.O. called Bed.
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.
Well, I draw whenever I can in between family commitments, and one comic strip takes approximately 15 Hrs to draw, update is every week, so bearing in mind I can only draw 5 days a week, on average I draw around 3 hrs? But in truth I usually cram drawing session into 5 hours at night.
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 
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 naĂŻve :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. -_-
