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Anthien
Oct '19
monotone_ink

I wish I can do 1-2 hour pages lol. I probably could with how I used to make comics which was sketched and shaded with pencil and that was it. However, I took the color/webcomic format route cause I felt I was eventually going to gravitate towards it and it seems to be a lot more popular... at least on Webtoon.

I mostly read manga so sketchy, black/white art looks nice to me, but the general audience likes pretty colors so I gave in. My first story was really text driven and I was just learning how to draw... your style is a lot like how I want to make my comic but potential lack of growth because a lot of people don't want to read colorless comics would kill my motivation.

summermcallen
Oct '19
1

I'm the same. I also need so much time to do everything perfect for me.
I also track my time to see if I get better over the time.
This was my last episode:

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I'm really faster in my current episode.
but then there are also personal things and work and so my update also is very slow. :frowning:
I think, even though it's really hard, you should blend it out. You don't do it as a job, but in your free time.
So the people can't really blame you when you update slowly :slight_smile:

edit: to compare my time to the episode: for this episode i make 62 panels

DualDragonsMaster of Yeet
Oct '19

Slow, but I need to be careful since I draw traditionally. I don't have ctr + z to undo my mistakes, they're permanent :cry_01:

akemikae
Oct '19

Genuinely, it depends on my mood a lot, which is frustrating. But I can take anywhere from start to finish 6 hours for about 5 panels in a page, and other times, it takes me like 15 hours. haha. I can tell you on average it takes about 10 hours from start to finish.

But I feel like it's important for you to notice how much detail and effort you're putting into a piece. Personally, I put way more time and effort into something that's not specifically a comic page, but more like a stand alone piece. This pic below is fairly simple in concept, but I took a lot of extra time with the angles, hands, detail work, and coloring. This piece took about 3 hours.

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Meanwhile, this whole set of pages including backgrounds and stuff took about 6 hours, which is double the time, but also more than 3 times as much stuff on the page. Basically, I put less details in comic pages and care way less about things being perfect, I just need it to be done.

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SeraphicMayin
Oct '19
summermcallen

Hey this tracking thing is neat. Is it an app? How did you make it?

I'm always looking for new and better ways to track how long it take me to finish a stage of art.

Edit: I'll be back when I'm more awake to try to show how long a thing takes for me to draw.

Kann
Oct '19

Well, I draw pages in batches so I don't really know how long it takes me to draw one page. Usually I'm doing four pages at once and one day it's sketches, next day lineart, then colors and whatever. I guess it's safe to say I can do four pages per week.

I'm pretty fast but I procrastinate a lot. :sweat_01:

LunarSushiCat
Oct '19

It really depends how i fell a given day,on a good day it takes a day to make a page. on a less good day only few panels or some writing

SuperRazz
Oct '19

40 - 50 hours for a 40+ panel vertical comic, but that excludes writing and scripting. I'm experimenting on which corners to cut so I can do them faster .
A script for 1 episode can take me 3 days because I do a lot of edits and rewrites :neutral_face:

LCT_m_a_d
Oct '19
1

Theres a popular saying "The only thing better than perfect is done" Im kinda taking the opposite approach.

I start with a classical finearts foundation and take a more experimental and present moment development path. My laat page I spent 3 weeks sketching out 4 panels, scrapping them doing a month of research and reflecting, than maybe 3 weeks redoing a fresh new set of panels. The potential for my art feels greater to me this way.

I can't compete with modern comic artists. But it's kinda cool to see how my approach that is so taboo to how comic art is made, comes off to my readers as unique and vibe.

Its more of an accomplishment to me than being a professional or accepted comic artist.

silacinnamon
Oct '19

I don't like the pressure to draw and upload constantly, so I make a hiatus between chapters to plan the whole chapter and sketch all the pages in advance lol

I take like a month just to work on stript, character/background/colour design, thumbnails, page layouts, and sketches of all the pages (about 20~30?). Then, I take another week to add lineart, colour and text for 4~8 pages before starting to upload so I can have a buffer, and after I start uploading I finish like 2 or 3 pages per week. When I finish the chapter, I take a break to start working on the next chapter or in another comic and repeat the cycle :smug_01:

But in general what takes longer for me is writing the script, I'm still not very confident in my writing and I rewrite a lot to try to fit the text better in the page. I work a lottt faster on textless comics.

apbarratt
Oct '19

This is a bit of a sore point for me, I am a very slow artist. Until recently I was drawing everything in ink and watercolours. The actual drawing for me was always a very slow process, I've always watched in awe at how other artists seem to be able to just go swoop swoop swoop with their pen and boom, perfect drawing on paper.

For me the problem was made worse by my choice of using watercolours. I'd put a colour down then have to wait for it to dry before I could continue. The comic I've recently started on here has the front cover in watercolour, but I soon realised that it was just going to take too long to do each page so have recently invested in an iPad Pro and am teaching myself to draw watercolour-like pages on it instead. The result is that I'm actually managing a couple of pages a week, whereas that front cover took a week to finish between work and family. I'm still slow, but I know I'll get faster with more practice :slight_smile:

irene_addler
Oct '19

I'm such a slow worker. It takes me 1-3 days of work to finish a page, and my style isn't complicated or even all that good lol of course, my 'days' are limited to weekends and what little time I can snatch after work each day. I guess it's no surprise I burned through my buffee as quickly as I did. Such is the curse of a full-time job

punkarsenic
Oct '19

potentially at the cost of quality i am FAST. at least for a webcartoonist.

my fastest chapter of TWAW was... perhaps 4-5 weeks of production, working 2 days a week? so, 4 days of writing & drafting, 2 days pencils, 1 day inks, 1 day colours - 18 pages. i cant do the math to break that down into time per panel, but its speedy

azzy-m
Oct '19

The fastest episode I've made so far was made in exactly two weeks, which is about 30-40 panels. And that was during a time when I haven't had school yet. Longer episodes (about 50+ panels) take like three weeks.

Anthien
Oct '19
DualDragons

That was me for the longest time but I just did it with pencil and added contrast after scanning to make it somewhat look like it was done with pen, haha. I couldn't work with pen, I don't have a stable hand and my hand strokes are short so sketching feels a lot more comfortable to me. Actually, one of the things I like most digital is the resizing feature. I often have the head too big or neck too long in my case. Also bending arms around to not look as awkward. In traditional you more or less have to erase/redo the whole thing.

gempompadour
Oct '19

Slow, so slow it's annoying me. I think it's because I love details and complicated designs that take forever to draw, lineart and color. Also because I draw traditionally and color digitally I have to scan large files and these magnify the workload.

I'm also a neanderthal and don't use express keys on my drawing pad or shortcut keys in general (other than the super obvious ones). Half of my digital time is wasted on trying to find the correct brush or eraser.