What Part Takes the Longest to Finish?

[onyisart]

For everyone who says coloring would you be interested in a tutorial? I don't think my coloring process takes too long. Maybe I could help.
It would be for Clip Studio Paint Only though.

[Grhe]

Thumbnail to clean sketch takes the longest for me.

[PaulDevers]

Definitely coloring. Lineart and skeletons usually go easy for me, only a few hours, but coloring takes me a good while longer.

[BarBarKetrab]

Probably a tie between inking and colouring for me, though leaning more towards colouring. Colouring because it's simply the most time consuming step and inking because I really like my lines to be clean and probably spend more time than necessary being a perfectionist.

Inking can take me from 30-45 minutes while with colouring I sometimes reach past the one hour mark (my comic is made in a simple style).

[CursedBeasts]

Sketching and lineart + inking.

[samiluu]

4 and 5, I spend a lot of time with it, but it's also the part I mostly enjoy

[rmdooley]

Inking. That takes me forever

[onyisart]

Only 30-45 minutes? For how many panels?

[onyisart]

I have this tool but I don't find it to be that useful for me.
I made my own fill bucket tool that has come in handy actually.

[BarBarKetrab]

A typical page of my series has around four panels in it. Like I said, I'm working in a more simple style so I can make pages at a decently fast pace.

Here is my most recent page:

[simplykit]

backgrounds...

[onyisart]

YEAH! This is what takes the longest

[Darth_Biomech]

Drawing easily takes up to 60-70% of the work. I can finish several pages in a day on any other step, but I consider myself very lucky if I manage to finish one page sketch in a day.
Inking was almost as labor-intensive, until I discovered the miracle that is Lazy Nezumi.

[NickRowler]

Inking takes the longest. Plus I usually have to touch up the inking when I am coloring. And sometimes again when I add the backgrounds.

[scribesunlimited]

I think you forgot the most important part:

The writing.

[MARNSOA]

Wow, never seen the productivity timer but oh god do I need it.

I also think thumbnailing takes me the longest, right before sketching. Inking is 100% my favorite part of the process, though

[MARNSOA]

Lady Nezumi ?,, Is that your inker?

[Darth_Biomech]

It's a pen processing soft, that can smooth your input, help to draw in complicated perspective, and some other stuff. Basically, I only need to redraw a line just a couple of times now, instead of doing each line 20-30 times (and then spending another hour adding and erasing to it), until I like it.

[simplykit]

its such a hassle but when its done its so worth it

[AmandaJ-art]

Inking takes a while. I take my time with the lineart. The panels with backgrounds are quite time consuming too. I enjoy inking. It's nice and relaxing...most of the time.