What are your update goals for 2021?

[Inspector_Spinda]

How many pages did you draw and post this year? How many have you done previous years and what are your goals for 2021?

My goal has always been 1 update per week, or 52 total per year. I've never quite made it, but this is only the end of my second year making it and I've been getting closer. The first year I only did 37 pages and this year I did 43. I've also done quite a few redraws of old pages although I'm not quite sure how many. I definitely did not update weekly this year and I don't plan to next year either. I do need hiatuses realistically, especially between chapters and I'll probably have a few more in between. 1 chapter a year is my goal though so hopefully I'll at least be able to manage that.

I also hope to get my first few patreons next year!

[OffBased]

That’s great that you’re getting closer to that goal! Plastic Teeth is really charming, it’s always great to see an update

I’m aiming to finish Part 1 of my comic next year. I’m at 79 pages finished and uploaded out of ~230 planned. My current schedule has me finishing 3-5 pages a week and sketching at least 5 more, so I think I can make it!

[Inspector_Spinda]

Wow that's amazing. I can finish about 3 pages a week if I have time and am really motivated, but I can't keep it up for any long period.

[im_not_pixie]

I've been successful in dropping one comic strip a week for some months now, so I think I'm going to try to boost that to 6 per month for a short while...maybe the first few months of 2021.
I'd like to try for a whole year, but another goal of mine is to make a proper graphic novel, and I doubt I'll have time that on top of 6 strips a month all year long.

I think 1 page a week is a great goal, especially if you don't do it full-time. Maybe if you can dedicate a week or two here and there to doing 2-3, it'll free you up on other weeks where doing one just isn't possible.

[Rhonder]

The bare minimum that I'm aiming to achieve is one update a month in 2021 It should be easy enough since my comic will be launching in January with enough buffer to last until like May at that pace, but we'll see. My performance based goal would be to get the production timeline down from ~1 month per episode down to like 3 weeks, or even 2 (but that'd be pushing it currently... twice as fast. I can dream!). Each episode is about 20-30 panels long, so they're roughly equivalent to 4 pages which makes sense why they take 4 weeks coming off of my previous page a week project... but still. I had been hoping to gain some speed by now

2018 for TreasureHUNT!! was weird, I think I produced like 20 pages total? 8 of those were earlier in April-May, and the rest after I launched in October with the summer months in-between off. 2019 was 50-ish pages with also a 10-page anthology comic mixed in. It's crazy to look back and realize how productive 2019 was I've probably peaked there lmao

[Inspector_Spinda]

January with enough buffer to last until like May at that pace

Damn. Congrats

It's crazy to look back and realize how productive 2019 was I've probably peaked there lmao

You never know sometimes when you become more skilled at art it also takes longer to finish, at least for a while. Then you gain even more skill and start speeding up again. At least that's been my experience. Around mid-year I had all the time in the world but was still working pretty slowly. Now I think I'm speeding up again.

[Rhonder]

Very true! I definitely find myself at the stage where it's like... I feel like I have enough experience an insight to start looking at areas to dial back and cut corners without losing quality, as well as learning the drawing programs better to learn time saving shortcuts and stuff. So soon I might hit that speed boost maybe I also feel like once I start getting feedback from readers beyond just my beta readers, it might motivate me to work faster too tbh. In this pre-launch buffer building phase everything is just v chill so it's like "no rush" lol.

This is also a thing that I relate to tho:

Wow that's amazing. I can finish about 3 pages a week if I have time and am really motivated, but I can't keep it up for any long period.

There was a period where I was able to barely squeeze out 3 TH pages a week with sometimes 1 or 2 more sketched out as well (I would pencil like 2 days, ink 3, and color 2 so sometimes I would pencil more pages than I could ink/color in the same week) because I would spend like hours every day after work and on the weekend working on it Quickly realized that wasn't long term sustainable and backed off the gas a bit haha.

[CodeMonkeyArts]

I hope to actually finish my novel next year. I feel so close and I have only a 3rd left to go!! I still plan on continuing to post two chapters a week with insert art every third chapter or so. It'll be busy but I am hopefuly!

Also wanna focus on commissions and designs to promote on Redbubble and my website as well. Though doing more collabs would be fun too

[Crusoe]

I'm a writer not a comic artist, but I hope to at least keep up my 1 update a week for my novel! Maybe I can eventually even start posting 2 a week if my backlog allows it. I also want to start a comic next year, but I'm unsure when I want to exactly.

[OffBased]

100% get that. It’s nice doing work whenever you want when there’s no expectation for it. I’m just going all sonic speed since I have a bunch of time and experience now—I DEFINITELY couldn’t do anything like that when I started

Good luck with your launch!

[cherrystark]

I want to have enough material done so I don't have to stress while creating new stuff. Since my series is short stories, I want to finish a story completely before posting more