How often or hours you spent on your comic?

[Chocolate]

How many days a week do you work on your comic? On average, how many hours are spent on drawing and writing? :]

[Lazy-Gamer]

I'm a one man team so, I draw out the character designs, manga and illustrations to promote it.
I write the storyboard and jot down ideas and info for the world and it's characters.

I still need to make my pages as often as possible so with all that in mind. I usually spend a lot of my day drawing a page and when I take a break from that, I work on the storyboard or character designs ( if I had not finished them all yet ).

Of course the storyboard is forever changing so that's always being worked on even if I have written out the final chapter.

Overall I work every day. I do take actual breaks and relax for the betterment of my health though.

[allisoncandraw]

I've never actually counted, but it's definitely a lot lol. I try to put in at least an hour of drawing a day, but I often draw for 6+ hours during weekend days. Just depends. I'd say a bare minimum of 10 hrs a week if I had to guess, but its probably more.

[dan_thepainter]

It's a lot to finish a single page now that I think about it lol With drafting, lineart and coloring, I think one page takes about 4-6 hours. That's just a rough estimate though. I've never really timed myself. It's hard to track the writing process because I do that so far in advanced to the actual page.

I get about one page done per week, but there have been times where I was really motivated and finished 3 pages a week. I try to draw for at least an hour or two every day or every other day.

[BoomerZ]

3-4 hours a day, 5 days a week. That is counting scripting, layouts, roughs, inks, color, and dialogue.

[Chocolate]

You know you don’t have to spend too much time on coloring right? Like you can just do black and white and it’ll still look just as good!

[Lilmonstart]

putting aside that I procrastinate pretty often

when I work on an art piece I spend maybe 2-3 hours and 1 or 2 days depending how complex or simple the drawing is

and I haven´t count how many weeks it takes me to make one chapter from my comic maybe I last a whole week doing each of this steps (rough sketch, lineart, coloring and shading, editing)

[river121693]

between 2-5 hours a day. A page usually takes m 4-5 hours.
I procrastinate a bit within that time though.

[dan_thepainter]

I should definitely consider that for my next series. It would probably save a lot of hours. I've already finished about half of my current comic so I may just stick it out until I'm done with this one.

[powerplantanimations]

40 minutes writing but I'm starting to procrastinate :v

Hell, I'm doin' it now!

[RedLenai]

Well, I honestly don't keep track of that.
I might not write but I take care of sketching, linearting, coloring, putting backgrounds, effects and lettering on the comics I work for. And in some cases I even do self-promotion in several social media platforms.

I really don't think much about specific hours making a chapter or panel, but I work from 9am to 12pm, have a pause and then go back to work since 2pm to 5pm. Then again yet another break and from 8pm to 11pm

There are days I work more, there are days I work less. Is hard to keep on track considering I also do other types of illustrative work, be it commissions, covers, pngtuber avatars, and more.

[XiuLyn_12]

I usually work on my comic from Monday to Friday. I do them on weekends if I don't have any other schedules!
And I typically work about 5 hours a day.

[Teira]

I'll spend 4+ hrs on a page in a day...sometimes I can do 2 pages in a day so maybe 16hrs in a week...I don't work on my comic everyday, I like to take breaks and do other things so I won't feel burned out.

[Scarlet_Cryptid]

I do a page a week, and how many days I spread it over varies based on my schedule and the complexity of the page, but on average I seem to spend about ten hours per page, spread out over about 5-6 days.

[darthmongoose]

I do two pages of Errant a week, and my ideal schedule goes like:

Friday-Sunday: Rough and then neat pencils. Ideally all pencilling should be done by the end of Sunday. It's close to impossible to estimate this, because this stage can also include things like "building or sourcing 3D models, getting photo reference for backgrounds, designing stuff" etc And a page that's a few panels of faces will take a lot less time than one with several panels of scenery of multiple people in a room etc. It takes as long as it takes, and I also fit in whatever other life things need doing around it.
Mon-Tue: No comic-making, dayjob
Wednesday: I try to get all my inking done. Inking both pages usually takes around 2-6 hours depending on complexity. Sometimes I start the colours here too.
Thursday: Colouring, lettering and uploading. I'm usually done by tea time unless I have outstanding inking from the previous day.

I could estimate that Errant takes in the region of 4-12 hours per page maybe? But also doing them in batches of two speeds the process, and I have a very loose process built around hitting targets by deadlines rather than spending a specific number of hours, because that's the best way to hack my neurodivergent brain into getting things done. If I hit hyper-focus, I might get a page inked in as little as an hour, but if my brain throws a wobbler, getting the inking or colours done is a painstaking process involving chipping away a panel at a time while trying to manage over or understimulation with music, rain noises, stim toys etc.

[faisalhussein394]

Everyday in fact, during my working hours I spend 4 to 6 hours a day for 5 days while I draw however long I can.

During my 2 day offs which is from 8 to 10 hours.

It took me 7-11 days to finish a page.

[moontokkym]

I do page per week and each page takes on average 70-100 hours to complete from text only to finished page. I work most days on it, last time I had a full day not touching any of it was Christmas...

Basically I do more or less 75 hours per week on it I'd estimate.

[abigaillmartin]

Most of the whole week I’m just writing or sketching out the stories or episodes. As for making the pages it takes me about a few twenty minutes or so to make the panels about an hour or more to ink. It really depends on the complexity of the scene.

I’d say on average it’s four to five hours on the drawing the comic itself on a chill day and 95% of the time is writing, role playing with my Elsie cowriter and sketching

I want it to be absolutely the best it can be when an episode comes out and I hope people see that.

I just gotta say, you have to be really dedicated to your comic. It’s no easy feat!

[ThunderChicken]

I work 45-50 hours a week fixing cars, and another 10 hours/week is spent driving back and forth from home to work, so I work on my drawings when I can. I try to do at least an hour or two on at least a few week nights, then spend some real time on weekends. I am always determined that I’m going to get at least one a week finished. When I’m drawing I can actually do so when somebody (like my husband) is around, but when I’m writing I need to be alone or I won’t concentrate.

[DarkSena]

Lemme think about it
During the working week I spend up to 4 hrs sitting on my pages, during the weekends if I'm close to deadline I usually hang on the pages more, depends on how much I need to finish, but it's up to 8 hrs each day during the weekend. My overall guess for a typical week I'd say that I spend working about 27+ hrs working on my comic is a rough estimate.