What takes the most time for your comic?

[grovylegirl]

I recently switched to fully painting again, and it's taking me a long time to color things, but I haven't started lineart yet. Idk how much time that will take me?
What takes you the longest? How do you deal with it?

[Arkulus]

The lineart, atleast thats what it feels like. The lineart part of the comic is always the most tedious, that it feels like it takes forever XP but its worth it in the end. Realistically though, prolly the coloring.

[6ooey]

Inking is the most tedious process for me. It's my least favorite thing to do so I usually end up being a bit slow making sure that everything is correct before I proceed to coloring.

[ahhvecadoes]

It was all the coloring for my first comic. Decided to switch to a very simple grayscale + occasional color for Heart Hex and it seems to work really well so far!

[Michelle]

I am a ridiculously slow inker and I hate how long it takes me to finish inking a page! x: Though if I were to do my comic in colour, that would probably take me even longer than inking.

That's not to say I don't enjoy inking... if I leave myself enough time to do it. If I'm working under a tight schedule, expect a lot of expletives from my work station.

[efdvorsky]

Flats. Usually, I can deal with lining (although it takes its time) but flats is a tedious thing for me that feels eternal.

I suppose because I can't experiment with it as much as I can unlike shading or even lining.

[Ambat]

For me actually thumbnailing takes the most amount of time because when I thumbnail I do multiple takes on each page and always do my thumbnails by scene--like I can't just thumbnail one page, I have to make sure the entire scene is thumbnailed so I can look at it and read through it and see how it all visually flows together.

Coloring takes a lot of time too but it feels kind of like mindless work--thumbnails require a bunch of thought and consideration but coloring is just me zoning out for 4 hours listening to music ya know!

[AnnaLandin]

The single step that takes me the most time is the thumbnailing. I'm a fairly slow thumbnailer, and I do the entire chapter in one go to make sure I get pacing and stuff right, and it can take a lot of time.

But in terms of individual pages... well, the ones with complex environments with tricky perspective are the ones that take the longest. They take time to sketch, they take time to ink, and they take time to colour and shade, because of the mass of extra details they add to the panels.

[heterodont]

coloring because i can't stop myself from rendering stuff out completely like blending the shading together, etc.

[SpavVy]

I would like to say inking because I use dip pens but it definitely has to be the thumbnailing process! >m< I always try to make sure that it has a nice flow, that the speech bubbles are easy to follow, has effective camera angles and so on.

[Pandastrophic]

My comic is fully coloured but not inked, i use pencil sketchy lineart. What takes the most time is sketching the pages, i get distracted easily for some reason when im sketching. Colouring for me doesnt take as much time though.
Storyboarding used to take a lot more time than now, i started writing a brief of what id like in every episode and that helped me a lot.

[ypirouz]

Penciling, I think. If I'm being honest, coloring takes me the ACTUAL longest, but because it's what I enjoy the most, it doesn't feel that long! XD

[carloswebcomic]

Cleaning up the sketches and sorting out the composition before I start inking. That can take me a few days. After I finish a page, I go into tweak mode and that can go for weeks!

[mariusthered]

inking, i hate inking

[Potoh]

Thumbnailing and writing the dialogues, definitley. One chapter can take me up to 4 days. I start scribbling my first ideas, make some changes, come back the next day and make more changes until I'm happy with the result. Sketching and inking doesn't take me that long, I'm a rather quick inker.

[kencoon7]

Getting out of bed.
I am new (to comics ) and 76 years old.
Are we supposed to ink and color them ?

[Shanny8]

Definitely the COLORING. I'm really meticulous about what I want, in terms of the over all end result and effects wise, so it takes a LONG minute before I get done.

[echohanny]

I do everything to minimize the time I work on actually drawing the page. I developed a simple cartoonish style, draw without a sketch, and put only flat colours. So I'd say it's writing and storyboarding.

I know I'd be discouraged if I had to fully shade each page or treat each panel as a full drawing. Ain't got time for that these days.

[Greg_Dickson]

Colouring for sure. Flats are the most boring part, but figuring out the right lighting scheme is the most time consuming for me, which I'm dreading doing today, as that's my first task lined up for my current page. Technically, drawing takes a long time too, but since I started my comic, I've just been working on 30 pre-drawn pages digitally, so I won't have to do that step for quite some time. Hopefully, I won't be too rusty at it by the time I return to it.

[Wishjacked]

I feel like it's a toss up between inking and flats. Probably inking. It usually takes me two days of work to get all my lines down, just because I don't do precise very well. But I don't mind inking THAT much. Flats, though… they really take a lot out of me. They're boring and to be honest I think they look really awful, so they feel like they last FOREVER.