I guess I want to know what is the average/realistic rate to create comic pages at.
Is 1 page per week to long?
How about 1 page per day?
Just am curious...
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It depends on the comic and the artist.
When I started making comics it took me a full week to do a very simple page. Now I can push one out in a few hours cuz my current one is black and white. But, if I were doing full color again I'd take 3-4 times as long. Also if you do your own handwriting that is...that takes so long to do.
I'm just worried that I'm being quite slow.
I feel like I can manage to finish 2-4 pages per week depending on the complexity of the page.
2 pages per week is what I want to say is my rate rn.
But maybe my worrying is all in my head 
depends on your style and the way you work, how much time you have to make work each week
if you work in batches - ie, you do all your sketches in one go, and then move on to the inks, rather than completing each page one at a time - your rate will be faster, but harder to measure in a per page rate.
after 3 years of experience i can do 24 pages over 4 days of production, so... 6 pages a day? i guess? + 4 days of preproduction, though. so more like 3 pages a day. and all this ACTUALLY takes me 1.5 months bc i only work on it 2 days a week
That's a fine update schedule. Unless you're on a contract paying you per page, then you set your own update schedule. If you do 2 a week comfortably and then update once a week, then you'll make a buffer for when you have to take time off from art because of illness or whatever reason. Some artists only update like once a month. It's whatever you want your schedule to be.
It varies from person to person.
For the sake of your readers, 1 page a week is probably the minimum (and what I do2), with a maximum of about 20+ pages a month.
Again, this depends on the artist. Some people get paid to do this, and they can obviously dish out more work. Most people still have school or day jobs, so they do what they can. Then there are the lazy people...
Anything is fine, really? It definitely depends on your style and how much time you want to put in it.
Previously I made 1 page in 2 weeks 
(but it had quite a lot of panels per page too). Then I changed the way I colour the comic almost completely and now it's around 2 pages in one week. This is still considered slow, I suppose?.. But overall, you are doing fine 
If the style is really elaborate and hard for you to produce, it can take even longer. If your style is very simple, like only lineart, no colour and maybe even no background, and you are great in that, you can make quite a lot of pages in a day too.
Some successful webcomic artists like Tom Siddell (Gunnerkrigg Court), Novil & Powree (Sandra and Woo, Gaia), and Mac Smith (Scurry) do like 2-4 pages per week (Mac Smith has crazy-detailed and gorgeous art though).
I'm pretty sure Japanese mangaka usually go from like 12-20 pages per week. But they're also known for working themselves into the ground and still surviving the deadlines by the skin of their teeth...
Maybe that's some useful context idk
2 pages per week!? SLOW!? I dream of being that fast. I manage to make one page every other week. It's also full colour and all, but still!
Honestly, Whatever is realistic to you is the right choice. I don't think you should spend much time comparing your pace with others, cause it really also dpends on how much time people can put into it weekly etc.
I have a job and also have to deal with mental health issues and stress, so I have to take a lot of breaks, hence the very slow pace, while others may work full time on their comic and can push out pages every day. Whatever is realistic for you is the only right answer.
The average I see for long form comics (which I make) seems to be one page a week though.
Yeah there's no right or wrong because everyone has different schedules and avaliability, but you start picking up the pace once you can make pages stage-by-stage instead of slaving over sections you end up taking too long at. You finish every thumb, you don't have to work on a page worrying about the next one just yet.
Can't say I'm at that point yet, still one page a week on a GOOD week, but I'm also doing sketches on traditional because I've yet to figure out how to do frame layouts without the quickness to adjust and rotate that paper allows. Maybe once I finish chapter 1 I can try just doing it all digitally.
Re: it varies. Like at my prime a few months into my comic where I hit a good balance of obsessed with my comic and not really doing much else with my free time & my work flow was starting to stabilize, I was knocking out about 2-3 full colored pages a week.
Now a few months later, I've only been drawing 1a week because I have other stuff I've been doing in my free time as well, but my actual speed has increased quite a bit.. i just spend less time working on it overall xD I did a10 page short story recently, for example, where I did the bulk of the work in 2 weeks, so ~ 5 pages per week. Granted it was gray scale, but still.
Sketch to line (I greyscale in less than 2 hours so I keep that for when the page is about ready to go up) can take me about 4 days.... so I do one page a week. XD I WISH I could do 2!
I can go at two colour pages a week and one black and white for my other comic, but I also have major depression which knocks me out for months at a time - I'm just getting into the groove again now. It depends on you, how you prefer to work and what kind of other commitments you have. I find at least on tapas readers are patient and kind, way more so than the silent subs I have on webtoons.
Sketching, lineart, and colours in a batch makes stuff a lot faster, but I find my improvement rate is so sharp and I'm changing things about my lineart regularly. I'm currently colouring a batch of inked pages from a couple months ago, and I hate everything about them. Some people like the satisfaction of completing a page rather than batch working, so find the way you like to work.
It depends a lot on the quality of the comic. Detailed characters and backgrounds take a lot of time. It gets waaay longer when you add color and shadows. So yeah, it depends on the type of comic you make.
Look at my comic, I make like one page a week, lol
It’s been said already but realistic means very different things to everybody!
I will preface this with saying that comics are my full time job but I usually do around 6-8 pages minimum weekly. I also draw traditionally at a smaller size to help increase speed. I can do more but I’m in the middle of non-comics related projects.
I tried this method before of fitting four pages to one B4 sized page to write, draw, ink, and color four pages everyday for a month and I got really comfortable with the format so I continue to do that for some of my projects. For most of my work I draw larger though.
I usually TRY to do one or two of these pages a week along with full colors but since I work on multiple comics I usually only get one page done but that’s four pages in one batch and it allows me a lot more time to work on more stuff!
Finding ways to quicken and simplify the workload is extremely important. For me it’s drawing traditionally so that I have to compromise with my mistakes and move on instead of fixating and hitting the undo button every five minutes and also simplifying my style as much as I feel comfortable with.
That........... depends entirely on your situation. If your not making a living off your comic then even 1 page a week can be a bit much while, in contrast, if your comic is your living then you should be pumping out pages regularly, maybe not daily but probably faster than weekly.
I guess you can think of it like this: How much you produce should be depending on how much you can produce without sacrificing too much comfort in life. It's a balancing act. On the one hand, if you want your comic to do well your going to have to dedicate time and effort to it to the detriment of other parts of your life. On the other, if you don't have the time and money to dedicate but do anyway you'll end up in a bad spot.
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