@joannekwan So roughly four pages a week, and on different works. That's a nice way of multitasking. I should be working on multiple projects myself, but I feel like this is overwhelming to me. When I was in school I used to hate this. Working on one thing at a time I feel is better for me. Very nice though!
@jurinova I agree! And on a side note, my characters in one of my other stories have the same name, Juri. I love that name. Is it your real one?
@punkarsenic Very nice. And yeah when life gets in the way you gotta take care of that but as long as you're consistent. ha!
@niinasalmelin Very cool. Do you find it difficult or easy to start up, after a few months of the buffer goes away, for your comic?
@Michelle Hey at least you get one done. I never measure the hours of how long I work on a page or so, time flies so quickly when you begin to work it's hard dot keep up sometimes.
@cleo_san I need to develop a buffer plan. I never thought about that until you and niinasalmelin mentioned it.
@azureXtwilight An ER doctor!? Wow. no kudos to you!
@angelajal91 During first few breaks, yeah. I do the comic with watercolors and I was still getting used to them, so coming back from a break felt like starting from the beginning again.
I don't have that problem anymore and I'm very comfortable with my medium, so it's very easy to jump back in.
Nowadays I must often force myself to stop and go to a break, so that I do not neglect my studies too much. (also you can burn yourself out even if you do something you love) I have to graduate soon so that problem will ease up at least a bit..
@angelajal91 buffers are the extra upcoming pages that havent been posted- most creators stay ahead of production with the buffer. If you get sick, have an unexpected life emergency, or just need to take a break- the buffer helps protect you from falling behind with your webcomic(depending on your posting schedule).
I tried to aim for 20 panels a week rather than pages. I do a basic layout and quick sketches of the chapter (4 hours) than try to not to spend more than 10 hours working on the line arts so I can't get some sleep at night. Then I finish it with the colouring and other effects which takes me around 10 hours in total. That around 24 hours of work for a chapter.
@angelajal91 to be honest: I only have that buffer since I've been uploading the story in German for some years now - but I wouldn't miss a buffer for the world now! It saves you so much stress and energy - so maybe just announce a hiatus, dunno, 2-4 weeks and work yourself a buffer - I'd recommend at least one month's number of pages (in my case this would be 8 pages)
Crikey! Maybe my workflow is super slow (and I have a very demanding full time job which requires a lot of late nights at this time of year), but I can barely manage a page a week on Templars of the Shifting Verse1. I get maybe an hour or two a day of free time to work on it. I'm working on it right now. I'd like to say it's because the art is pretty good, but I've seen artists with 10 times better work than me turn out pages like breathing. A lot of my time is spent in prep (working out page flows and building 3D models for background references). Then there's drawing (usually quick) inking (usually slow) and colouring (depends on the page).
I think if I could sit down and spend eight hours a day on my comic I'd get a lot done. I remember the first page I did only took a day. At the time I was living with my parents and working part time. Now I live alone, half of my life is cleaning up after myself....
I've been able to keep up to drawing 2 pages a week for Wednesday7 but I think I might have to cut back to 1 a week sadly because of time.
I can do 2 a week if I'm really pushing it. I have a pinched nerve in my arm, so it limits how much time I can put into art before I hurt myself, plus I have other art I'm working on/commission work to get to.
It takes less time when I actually have edited thumbnails / I'm working in grayscale. Color is a bitch and a half to do quickly for me.
OKAY YOU GUYS. You guys bloody rock. The fact that there's so many of you with crazy tight schedules still get to cranking out your quality work each week is just... mighty gobs of inspiration for me. Just hold up, let me bathe you all in glee and thank you for dedicating your spare time to sharing, holy cows.
I've slowed down this year mightily so. I started out 2015 doing 5 pages a week then around May, went down to 4. I kept that up until January this year and I'm just doing 2 (there are a ton of other little projects starting to weigh in to help fund my passion project so yo yo, sacrifice the quantity for a little while).
Now, when we have holiday weeks and my family and I are doing okay, I can do 3 fully illustrated pages from scratch a day. That's my quater horse mode, though, I would not be able to keep that up for more than a week, hah^^ Unless there's a neon glowing paycheque at the other end...