How many hours a day do you spend drawing?

[Iaikaa]

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.

[TristanJensen]

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.

[WhatAHero]

usually 5 - 6 hours.

[shaylafarley5]

Depends on job hours but 5 to 6, more if i have a long lunch break

[Doubtcent]

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.

[DynamoToon]

I spend all of the hours. ALL OF THEM.

[AnnaLandin]

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.

[Chiper1811]

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.

[Fioree]

i draw until i don't get tired

[eschaefges]

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'.

[nobody]

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 naïve :S

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.

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.

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.

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...

[scythe]

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.

[scythe]

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)

[kazukitakamura126]

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.

[Tentakustar]

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!

[AffectedMind]

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 ;_;

[pottedlilgoree]

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

[Mharz]

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. -_-

[jmhenry]

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

[vinnception]

if i draw more than five hours i feel like puking