What stage should I spend less time one?

[hjfsdh2222]

I’m trying to churn out pages faster for my comic. Which should I spend less time on: penciling or inking? Which do you guys try to speed through?

Also to see more of what kind of pages I’m doing

Crime & Cars | Tapas

[KoreanTacos]

It really depends on how you're utilizing penciling, cause if you're doing a rough draft first then inking should already be faster as all you should be doing is just enhancing what has already been made in the rd phase, but because I don't know the methods to which you use penciling and inking I'm not sure what you mean. I'm a slow person so I try to use pencil quick sketches to get a general idea of how I want my panels to look then detail with pen, but I do it digitally altogether (gotta save those stupid trees). I personally feel both require the time of day cause they both play different roles.

[shazzbaa]

I'd honestly suggest trying both. Like, try doing a bare minimum of pencilling and then adding the details and making the decisions in inks, and then trying doing really tight pencils and inking more loosely, and seeing what works for you.

I have friends who can work with very loose pencils and it speeds up their process, but for me, if I draw my pencils that loose, then inking takes me twice as long and looks way worse, so what works for my friend wouldn't necessarily also work for me.

When you try both, you might look at the results and discover that one of them is really not up to your standards, or you might find that rushing one thing only makes the other thing take a lot longer. Or you might find that you can't actually work any faster than you already are for one of those steps. That's up to the individual, though, and what works best for you!

[J.Z.Castillo]

It really depends on how you work... This is how I do things

Pencils

Inks

Finished right before speech bubbles

Like @shazzbaa said, I can get by with the absolute bare minimum to know where I'm going, so what works for me may not work for you. I'd say try cutting corners and see how much you can get away with before your finished result suffers. I wouldn't cut corners with inking, though, but definitely with pencils. I HAVE tried cutting corners with inking before and it just didn't work for me, but who knows, maybe you find a way! Just try new things and eventually you'll find yourself doing tricks that make you go faster!

[AVXP]

I hate to be that guy, but I think you should be asking the opposite question.
What should you be spending MORE time on.
Some sections look like a stripped-down-comic style and other sections look unfinished or hurried.

I don't know what you are going for (style-wise) so this is just my first impression. Maybe you're trying to do some Manga-influenced thing where you go from stylized to super-cartoony for effect. I dunno.

My first thought is "Why do you need to speed up?"
If you can't maintain some kind of arbitrary pace you've set for yourself, don't suffer the art(work)
- instead change the schedule to something that allows you to do the more expressive and detailed style..

What's the rush, literally, what's the rush?
Again, this is just my opinion.

If you are hell-bent on saving time then focus on getting BETTER at penciling or inking instead of choosing to devote less effort on either. A mastered craft moves at a comfortable pace.

[hjfsdh2222]

I’ll explain to you why I need to speed up.

I need to speed up because I want to finish this project as soon as possible. I’m not too in love with this project anymore. I just want to get it done so I have my ideas out of my head. Ya understand? I can’t start something new til I finish what I have begun. That’s just how I am. And I reeeeaaaalllly just want this over with. I only have 2 more chapters to draw. Maybe less. I want to do regular art again and lots of it.

I got a busy school year ahead me. I can’t have this thing dragging me down halfway through the year. I’m taking some really hard courses and I need to keep my grades high as a kite.

I’m hoping to get this done before December. So then I can be free to do what I want to do.

I’m willing to let the art suffer. As long as the story is still intact (which it is and people have told me they like it) then I’m happy.

[DiegoPalacios]

This topic has some tips to draw faster

This is a question for pretty much any comic that's featured on Tapas or Webtoon, specifically any that are on a once a week upload schedule (which most are from the looks of it). With the new contest popping up on Webtoon, I quickly started to do research to see if I could get my budding comic entered into it. Up till this point, I thought I had been doing very well on it. I have a single flat colorist who helps, but other than that, I am able to sketch, line, paint backgrounds and add dialog…

[hjfsdh2222]

My dudes... I JUST FOUND OUT I CAN PENCIL PAGES SUPER FAST TRADITIONALLY!!!!(((o(ﾟ▽ﾟ)o))) I really didn’t like making pages traditionally before so hadn’t tried to for months but now for some reason I can pencil super awesomely traditionally now YIPPEE!!! I have my answer!!!

[ZombieOwl]

I like doing that stage traditionally, too; it means I can draw wherever, whenever, without having to drag a computer around :o