Production time?

[masi]

Survey. On average how much time do you need to complete a panel? How is it your productivity compared to how it was before?

[mountainwolves]

I have a copy and paste assets methodology for my comic. So when it comes to panels, I put them together in like 10 minutes or so. Creating new assets is a whole different story.

[river121693]

I post 4 pages every week, 4-5 hours per page, or ~30-40 minutes per panel. If I finish quickly, I go back to clean up my panel so, so even though I'm more productive, my time generally stay the same.

[Scarlet_Cryptid]

I do print-style pages, so I don't work on one panel at a time, but a whole page from blank to finished takes on average about ten hours, so if you divide that by roughly 7 panels on average... I guess it's a little under an hour and a half per panel. (Obviously this varies wildly by complexity and size...)

[GingerLoge]

I work in page format, and for a whole page I usually need 5-6 hours cause I'm a perfectionist I think. I can draw a panel in 30 minutes or less if it's just a talking face or a detail; but if it's a big establishing shot I may need hours.

[darthmongoose]

I don't time pages by "panel" because the contents of a panel vary wildly. Some might have backgrounds and multiple characters, while others are just a little shot of a character's face in a simplified style for comedic effect. My overall pages are definitely up in the roughly 6+ hour region though.

[Legendofgenii]

Hours.

[Lensing]

I´m interested in more information about this, can you upload a screenshot or something that I can imagine what you are talking about?

[maice]

My pages are in traditional comic book format so it's hard to judge by "per panel"... I do the whole page at once. But it usually takes 4-5 hours for the entire page, and my pages are typically 5 panels on average.

So it's probably fair to say each panel takes about an hour.

[rumpenstiltzkin]

Same as many, I do pages rather than panels.

From sketch-lineart-finished it takes about 3-5 hours for me, I do have a very simplistic style and try not to go to deep into detail unless its a closeup.

And I dont have very background heavy pages either

[BarBarKetrab]

It depends on the complexity of the panel of course, but one (in the style I'm drawing my current comic in) takes me about 20-40 mins. I prioritise speed while making comics so I'm trying to work in a style that allows me to get things done quickly.

[Llyrel]

Same as others, I work in traditional page format and don't really keep track of how long it takes me to draw a single panel, especially because it can vary quite a lot depending on the panel itself on average, a single page in Procreate takes me from 8 to 12 hours (+ at least one more hour in Photoshop/CSP to add final touches and lettering). My pages are usually made of 5-7 panels, so that'd be... 1,5 to 2 hours per panel? °° (should be pointed out that I have a fairly detailed style with quite a lot of rendering)

[mountainwolves]

Sure! Here:

[thecrystalrook]

I work on a page-by-page basis since I draw for print. One page from start to finish will take approx 3 hours

[Moesakuara]

I can't speak for specific panels, but a page takes me between 1-3 two to three hour sessions. That's about seven panels on average and just me doing pencils, inks, color and lettering. You may be able to do that math, but I don't hahaha

[Nada]

Sometimes I feel like I take too long on a single panel, depending on the scene.

[Lev404]

Well panels with my characters in the real world used to be around 30 minutes and now its around 10 minutes, and panels with my main character inside her dream used to be around 2 minutes and now they are like 5 minutes lol I'm too productive lol

[system]

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