How much time do you spend to make an entire comic page?

[crabman21]

It depends. If I already have a joke in mind only like 30 min to an hour. But If I cant think of anything, it could take up to 5 hours sometimes; give or take; & how many panels I use as well!. Suzzie Q

[shaylafarley5]

My pages usually takes a day or two, because of my job (and procrastination lol). It also depends on how you work your flow. (Meaning parts of the page are easier and faster to complete them some).
I don't know if its the same for you but when it comes to my back grounds I can get them done within an hour or two, but the people takes me about 5, depending on how much detail I use.
Example:

This page took me about 3hrs, which is a record for me but this one down below took me a day and a few hours to complete. In some cases I just reuse the same back ground. It saves me A LOT of time, lol.

Example:

[mattcleaver]

More time than I would like. I need a team of clones, or minions. But not the Minion minions. Stupid yellow things.

Anyway, a fully coloured page of In Our Shadow, from go to woe, takes about five hours I'd say, depending on how many giant machines there are.

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[scythe]

When I first started I was still using old timey sketch/ink/colour methods, and it took about a month to get a page out (I only get to work on it in my spare time, mostly before work).

But now I use a lot more 3D references for buildings, poses, vehicles etc, which has pretty much eliminated my need to sketch. I now go straight to inking and for the first time will be giving those inks to a flatter, so that should speed up my colouring too. Hopefully this should knock down my page time to a week or two depending on the backgrounds.

As you can see, I've got details for days.

[dracoplato]

Zenchav took half a day to a day to do one page when it was in BW, now that it's in color it takes me about two days to finish a page @w@ If it's an easy page though I can sometimes finish it in a day. Ideally I'd like to get it down to a day all the time so I'll have more time for other projects.

[fighterxaos]

That's me too! XD Considering I'm using a "dumbed down" style for my comic it should take me roughly the same time you put for your pages but I get distracted a LOT as well. Like I'll draw a circle then wonder about something and check wikipedia about it, or I get a tweet and feel the need to reply immediately. Or I get lost on youtube.

[kazukitakamura126]

How long I spend on a single page varies, it can take 8 hours if its a page just with dialogue, or 2 8 to 10 hour days working on the page. This usually occurs when I am working on a fight scene or an environment that is very complex.

[Jrej]

It really depends on the page. Crowd scenes take forever.
In general, it could take from 5 to 10hours. I usually spend 2h a day for a page per week.
That's a lot of work but when you look back it's amazing!

[APM]

Wow, your comic really have a lot of details. I'm trying to use 3D references for poses too (Manga Studio have 3D character models), but the background it's still very hard to make.

[APM]

When I'm trying to learn new techniques or making a fully detailed image, it take me about 12 hours too. But the result is good.

[APM]

It's a problem for me too, mostly when I turn on the PC to start drawing but spend hours in the internet >.<

[insomniascrawl]

For my comic it depends. Coloured pages take me longer.

Something like this might take me between 1 and 3 hours from start to finish (since I keep the art pretty simple it's not too bad)

Where as a page like this:

Might take 1-2 hours, rarely more than that from start to finish.
I find that the more accustomed I get to drawing on the computer the less time it takes thought (thankfully).

[toonsfera]

Actually I can't be precise about the time that I spend in creating a page of Scarlet Black. I rarely do a single page without any interruption ¬¬

But I know that I lost many time in the process because of the precision of the lineart that is not aways good as I desire. While I can do much better at the paper, on digital is sometimes complicated.

[scythe]

It certainly does. I use Poser for pretty much all of my 3D references. Some people like sketch up, but I go with poser because it handles everything from people to animals, vehicles and buildings. It takes a little while to get the hang of, but ends up saving heaps of time in the long run, especially when you'll be in the same setting for a while, or it's a regularly occurring set piece.

[curlyfuandpeanuts]

I try to do the same in Curly Fu and Peanuts . I can usually get 4 (maybe 5) pages penciled in a day (I used A4 pages so it's not that much space) and then I can ink 2-3 pages in a day. Then I scan it all up but, because I'm a bit of a Luddite, the scanning part can take a while. My pencils are usually quite loose so the detail goes in at the inking stage. At the moment I'm not using colour because I want to concentrate on getting the art down although I do use them from time to time

[UndefinableCreature]

Making a page would take less than an hour.
Unless I lack a plan.
Then It'd take forever.

[monotone_ink]

For Shade, it takes around 2-4 hours. Because of the sketchiness of my manga (and general laziness), I tend to take a lot of shortcuts and don't really agonize over little details, since people won't look at them for long anyway. I only put in lots of detail for extremely important parts.
(For scenes with dialogue, barely any backgrounds. Backgrounds come when it's needed, like establishing the scene.)

For The Little Story of Jean though... around 30 mins - 1 hr. It's like that other series I work on when I want to cool down.
(I literally draw it straight on with pencil, scan it, then digitally water colour. It's so easy that I sometimes want to cry from happiness.)

[crabman21]

30 mins to an hour. It's a simple comic strip. But, if I'm doing an actual comic or graphic novel page, it could take all day(depending on detail) https://tapastic.com/episode/334330

[jessicasurline]

After reading the comments above....I wish it only took 8-12 hours for me to finish a page! You guys found a good pace to produce quickly! It takes me an average of 30-40 hours per page for Whetstone, depending on level of detail of course. I do everything but the text traditionally.

[isaacfriedman]

Tronald Dump is a 1-3 hour thing mostly because the pages are 8.5 x 5.5. I do very little digital editing to the scans.

The Bio War, on the other hand, I spend a good 4-8 hours on each page. Even though they're only a quarter od a piece of cardstock, I do my best to put as much detail as possible in the small space and then I use Photoshop to really make everything pop.