Hello!
I would say it is alright to have de life aside of webcomic and you should take care of yourself first before you hit the burn-out with no perspective of return. Keep in mind that making a webcomic is a marathon not a sprint and taking time to make something that matter to you may be a good idea if you strive for quality.

Drawing faster require pratice as well as you artstyle while become better. You'll figure out things in the making so don't worry. Instead of thiking on how to draw faster, I would think of a way to make the comic more managable to me even if it means going trough sacrifices : shorter panel posted on a weekly basis or longer panel posetd on a bi-weekly basis; using limited color palette and/or black and white, ...

Tough I speak from de perspective of someone that hasn't started making a comic yet but is still figuring out how to reach that goal. others may have a different appraoche to this problem!

• Keep the same schedule and draw every day. It doesn't matter if you only spend 15 minutes a day drawing, but make sure you have a routine and always start at the same time of the day (10am, 7pm...). This way you'll get used to draw faster.

• Get used to drawing with references. It will help you draw more easily. You can also find references given by other artist and find inspiration in their styles until you find the key to be comfortable with yours.

• Keep it simple: avoid perfection and ommit unnecesary details. This is the reason why my comic looks sketchy and isn't colored: I found out rough lines were easier for me to draw and I tested the style I am now using style until it looked good. Everyone has their tricks.

• Have a sketchbook. I usually draw my thumbnails on a small sketchbook and then send them to my pc with my phone via Dropbox. Some people have tablets instead. It's a good way to keep drawing when you're outside.

A lot of good suggestions here.

Just wanna bring up something that I know I struggle with specifically at the sketch stage. Don't force yourself into perfection as soon you start drawing.
If you find yourself struggling with a panel, block out something loose, move on and come back to it.
There's nothing worse than taking too long trying to force something to work and not liking the end result anyway.

Do a small bit every day. It doesn't have to be hours, but try to draw something for 30 min. It turns into some nice muscle memory development.

Also, do all of each step before going to the next. All thumbnails, all line art, etc... You're in a different mindset with each and switching back and forth can slow you down alot.

Take a look at your own process while creating it. Are you fine-tuning the sketch instead of moving on? Is inking taking a century? Is flatting and shading always being readjusted because you're not happy with them? Within reason, discover what's really holding you back the most, and study other ways to do it or find a schedule that's more to your liking - as suggested before, doing a whole day of each step instead of doing each page start to finish.

If your slowness is at least in part due to a lack of interest, I think I have some tips that can help. For example:

...You may want to try doing the opposite of this.
Every once in a while I punish myself for procrastination by forcing myself to draft an entire update all at once. Theoretically, it should only take like, 5 minutes, since by then I've already memorized the script and know how I want most of the panels to look.

But it doesn't. Sometimes it takes hours, because honestly drafting bores me out of my skull.

So my solution is to break the monotony, and keep breaking it until progress is made. If you finish drafting (or in a digital artist's case, 'thumbnailing') a panel and feel kind of excited about giving it a serious sketch, give into that feeling. Would you rather spend the next 30 minutes agonizing about how much more you still have left to draft, or spend it actually doing work on a panel that will have to get done eventually anyway?

hi there! well how i draw fast is i practice a lot and just having fun doing it

sometimes before i make an episode i draw random things to losen up and get my mind and hand on the right rhythm

hope you get better at drawing fast. good luck!

Copy and paste backgrounds.
Keep a folder of references handy for quick access when drawing.
Do a warm up sketch, it can help you loosen up the drawing muscles and mind
Stick with it. The more you draw your characters and story, the faster you will be able to do so as you build familiarity with them

I agree with @DokiDokiTsuna , for me what works to be faster is:

-Have quality rest, eat well and exercise, a burned out artist doesn't work fast no matter how much they try.

-Set the goal on the minimum needed for the week (a 6 panels page in my case, it's the usual when you're not a full-time comic artist, there's people that prefer to make 24 panels a month).

-Time yourself, count the actual number of hours you need to finish the number of panels to post, and then try to beat your own record without cheating.

Cheating is leave aside the first point I made. It's counterproductive, you burn out, so what you got to do faster this week, will be lost on heal from burn out next week.

With these three points I went from needing a week or more of work, to ten hours. Some weeks I literally sit and make the page the same day of the update, because I haven't got time before, but I do it. Because I feel reasonably healthy, the goal feels easy to reach and I know for a fact that I can do it in around ten hours, so I devote them to just enjoy myself making that page. It became a relaxing moment in my week

I think it also helps to track your productivity with something like Toggl, which will tell you exactly how long you're taking, and will be always ticking down on your web browser's tab so you won't like get lost looking at pinterest for 20 minutes (my biggest time sink is sites that are helpful but kinda suck me in. I am so bad at getting distracted by the internet that I sometimes have to use apps to keep me out of twitter during business hours.)

I don't know what program you are using, but my speed increased a lot when I got a better smoothing tool. CSP and Photoshop CC have those built in now, but you do have to turn smoothing on. It'll help stabilize your lines. Also, if you aren't already, learning and practicing gesture drawing is really great for learning how to draw faster. It's kinda like doing scales for music, but for drawing. When you practice only having 30-60 seconds to draw a full figure you'll get the hang of laying down correctly the first time and smarter the first time and thus giving you smart and speedy habits for when you're doing slower illustrations.

For me drawing becomes faster when I have fun. And I have fun while drawing by:
- stopping comparing my art to others, like 'Disney's version would look better'
- stopping thinking 'this doesn't look realistic yet cartoony'
- stopping thinking 'I should be doing something else instead

For example, I recently started drawing sheep. I've never drawn them before, so I looked for reference, drew some realistic sketches. Then I put them aside and started to draw sheep, looking reference from my drawings only to see where sheep's head is compared to legs etc. Also constantly reminding myself "If one sees it's a sheep, it's 'realistic enough'."

That applies to everything. It doesn't have to be perfect as long as it serves it's purpose.

I started a second comic on side of my daily strip. The daily strip takes me a lot of energy and time (even though I have my husband doing half the work with me). but I was hell bent doing that second idea too. This is how I manage it so far:
I wrote my script (or jokes in this case) organized them by length, importance to the overall story and how difficult they’ll be. That way I will not end up with two ultra long/difficult strips in a row. That already saves some time in production.

Storyboards/thumbnails are still drawn traditional in a sketch book. Try to be detailed/ close to model with the faces/heads of your characters. That where the focus of the reader is. With the rest you can cut corners to some degree and use a shorthand.

I use the vector layer in Clip Studio as my inking layer. The line art is fairly thick with high stabilization. That way I can draw faster and smoother. And due to the vector I can correct the artwork (or line width easier)

Also I settled on a simple color palette for each character and bg (which is set up in clip studio as it’s own set)
Shadings are done in the same tones (which is choosen according to the atmosphere)
I use cell shading since that’s more manageable for me than painting.

Fir BGs I use CGI for generic BG (such as random buildings or places my characters will only visit once or hardly at all). That way you don’t waste time drawing detailed BGs/Settings that you don’t need later on.
If you don’t mind CGI you can do all your BGs with that. It’s not like that’s a taboo.
Personally I prefer drawing recurring (like apartments of the main character) still from scratch. But I keep it simplistic and use CGI props for furniture pieces in the BG. Also, I reuse shots and background.

Try to utilize effect brushes as much as possible. It helps a lot for stuff like fur, trees and what not.
Same thing goes for patterns for clothes or such. It’s very little effort but the result look nice

And I settled on a schedule I can manage on the side. My second comic will run bi-weekly because I feel like drawing one (1) panel a day is very convenient for me. That way, I need a bit less than two weeks to finish an episode. That’s not fast but it prevents me from burn out and I still are able to do my main comic, patreon stuff and rest.

My apologies if I stated any obvious but I felt like sharing how I deal with drawing faster or more convenient without hurting my motivation ^^