What's your work routine?

[Iridium]

Greetings! My work routine entails:

Dusting my desk and computer (my city is dusty, so I have to do that even when my windows are closed lol)
Checking my Excel to-do list
Starting work by date order
Stopping at 6 p.m. and then repeating the next day xD

[Lady_T_Musings]

That's what's up and sounds pretty legit. I've noticed that my effectiveness when working on my comic defiantly increases when I'm in a space designed for creating. Classroom, studio, drawing corner... all that works fine. Just need a place to get in the element on it and I defiantly work best when the space is decluttered. Like sometimes I can't even sketch if my art space is to cluttered and junky. Totally messes with my mental. I can work outside my studio since I have a mobile setup (and do) but defiantly prefer working at my desk(s).

I set 2 days out for drawing and working on my comic that are non negotiable (ok the second day can be changed around, but I try to get at least 2 days a week). Mondays and usually Thursdays. I eat before starting, do a lil stretching, grab some water, turn on some lo-fi beats if I'm working with text, or a podcast if I'm doing art/coloring and get to work.

I'd like to say I stop every half hour or so to stretch, but I usually don't...

[jmassat]

I don't really have a routine, and if I try a routine, for anything, I almost never stick to it. A few weeks ago, I'd decided to try writing my story for four-hour blocks every day. I just ate lunch, set up my laptop on an empty desk, turned off the music, and typed. Two days into this, I thought, "Wow! This is amazing!" Three days in, I crashed.

My favorite of all work routines was, first thing in the dark and early morning, getting to my empty desk and laptop, pulling out all my comic-drawing stuff, and then drawing as many comics as I could until some point between 10 and 12. Usually I'd also play symphonies or jazz fusion. After that, I'd take a shower, get dressed, and eat.

It REALLY helps me when I can do work early in the morning, and I typically find drawing less stressful than writing, which might explain why this routine went a little better than my recent attempt to write a chapter of a novella every day...a routine I broke after about three weeks, 3/4 through the story.

[noenoh]

My routine varies a lot and no matter how much free time I get on days off (after finishing all my home chores) I end working after 5:00pm because the weather is too hot almost all year round here (rn we are at 35°C with thermic sensation of 39°C I shower 3 times at day and no, no ACs, these are a luxury here dont even mention it, I just have 2 fans at my service oTL) so I end working happily from 9 PM to 2 am (the previous hours from 5:00 pm I use them to settle files or anything else) and I have to get up every now and then (usually every hour or every 2 hours for physiotherapy exercises) and on work days after returning home (obs after showering cleaning and eating) I try to work for at least for 1-2 hours, depending of how tired or mentally in the mood for drawing I am.

[pilot-obvious]

I'll work on my comic whenever I have free time during work, but I find I'm most productive at night after I've gone on a walk and taken a shower. I prefer no distractions, but I can work through them (I live in a 1 BR with my partner so sometimes we have to do things in the same room).

I usually take breaks frequently to browse the internet, but I'm trying to switch that with standing up and walking around. I feel like my physical health has taken a toll!

[Rhonder]

The only real routine I have, I think, is the act of preparing my work space. I need my desk clear during the day for my work-work, so when it's time to draw in the evening there's the wholeprocess of getting my screen tablet onto the main desk and set up, getting my laptop opened up and running, setting my wireless keyboard up where I like it for hotkeys, & etc.

It's a little ritual of sorts... but also I think partially why I don't draw as much as I would like to recently Sometimes I'm too lazy to clear this barrier between me and drawing lol

[Kaydreamer]

I tend to do all the usual morning stuff, as well as walk my dog and grab a coffee along the way. After that, I settle down at my desk and tend to have a structure that looks like this:

• Check emails/social media/forums.
• Stretch my wrist.
• Start working on my comic once the coffee kicks in, or by 12:30pm at the latest. (I'm kinda creatively dead in the mornings.)

Because my day starts so late, I tend to work later into the evening. I'd love to be more functional earlier in the day, but for the time being, mornings just don't seem to be my thing, artistically.

[Scarlet_Cryptid]

Yeah, I'm creatively useless before noon, too. I can do chores and stuff, but nothing that takes actual brain power.

[ccrrally]

I make a to do list usually every 2 weeks that I try to stick to, but do not punish myself if I can't accomplish it all or have to change it up a bit. Other than that I can really work in any condition as long as it's after noon. I do not do mornings and get the best work done at 10 at night anyways

[R.n.P]

I just get on my bed or my desk, turn up some music and start drawing

[ButterflyEmpress]

After I wake up and eat, I hop on the computer. I look around on social media and forum sites, in case there's anything cool going on. After that I pick whether I'm illustrating my comic, writing the script for a future chapter, or drawing something non comic related. I can't really work in dead silence so I usually have music or YouTube videos playing in the background. For some weird reason I have to take a mid noon nap for 2 hrs, then repeat (wake up, eat, computer).

I do the most work on my days off, but if I'm not dead exhausted I'll attempt to draw after work. I prefer staying up late and waking up late because there's too many distractions during the day. Such as the cat, my mom, having to run errands, chores, etc.

[Caro]

I wake up at 5am and check the internet in bed to wake myself up. (I give myself a pretty strict 2 1/2 hours total of screentime for the day so I don’t linger on it long) Then I’ll read an actual book to get away from the internet. I’ll make coffee and take a walk with my dog as soon as its bright enough outside to see so I usually read while I walk (I currently live in the woods so no streetlights to rely on), I usually walk anywhere between 30min to an hour.

After my walk, I’ll sit at my desk and write my to do list. I start the work day with a warm up— usually a quick strip or work on a painting or both then I get into the actual pressing work I have to work on (comic for publisher, any merch designs I have to turn in, design work for animation, etc). I’ve realized that if I have to use a device to put on a youtube video or music or a podcast I end up dilly dallying on social media for too long as well so I have a cute little radio that where I usually keep tuned into the local station but sometimes another local station plays old audio dramas and thats always fun. I use something similar to the pomodoro technique to keep track of my hours worked and make sure I don’t hyper focus on one project.

At around noon I’ll take a second walk with my husband and we talk about what we’ve been working on and whats next on the agenda. After this walk I usually try to respond to emails. Then I usually go back to painting because the light is good for a while and I’ll alternate between painting and drawing comics until 6 or 7pm when my husband and I will reconvene to make dinner and watch a movie together.

I do this everyday six days a week and on the days off I give myself I usually spend them reading and painting leisurely during covid. Outside of covid I’d be out having lunches with friends in the daytime and drinking and dancing at night on my weekends.

[irene_addler]

I don't have much of a daily routine, but I can't draw in silence, or I get bored SUPER quickly. Listening to music is okay, but I really need whatever I'm listening to to have a story for me to listen to while I work, cause just music will devolve into me having a singalong/dance party. I like to have either a TV show going in the background that I'm listening to, usually true crime or home improvement, these days, or I'll put on a podcast, again, preferably a true crime one. Or I'll listen to an audiobook, preferably a detective novel or murder mystery hahaha

[nathanKmcwilliams]

All's I need is a drink, preferably an energy drink or coffee, some music (METAL of course) and I'm good to go. I sit down and start drawing until I'm done for the day.

[irresponsiblepics]

Mine currently

Wellside Wishes | Tapas

[rumpenstiltzkin]

ah ha, routines... what is that

I wish I had routines but routines doesnt seem to work on me, im just chaotic, i draw when the urge falls in, it can be whenever or... in three months, who knows

[jcmraz]

Time to do so. Relying on specific circumstances to draw is a good way to end up drawing less or be thrown off by inconveniences. I draw while on hold on the phone, lunch breaks, at home, listening to music, listening to podcasts, in silence, in cafes. Wherever and whenever I can find time.

[Puck]

I don´t have one, I´m drawing a lot but I´m usually training to draw and never finish panels.
Time to change that

[kinleypavone]

I get up, feed my cat, grab some breakfast, and then usually eat at my desk while I get started. Once paid client work is all done, I try to script/sketch at least 5 new comic pages over the weekends and then spend weekdays finishing 1 page per day. When I sketch/script, I need absolute silence so I try to do that as early as I can, before my BF wakes up. With any other stage I'm fine to listen to youtube, chat with people, listen to music, etc while I work.

[Quintessa]

I set all my ideas during the day, I finish about one or two days depending on what other things I'm busy with.