Would you rather be faster at producing your comic, or have better quality?

[Zaboem]

If I were drawing a gag-a-day comic, I would choose speed. Right now, I am writing prose and game rules, so quality is the priority. It mostly depends on the project.

[keii4ii]

Art: faster. Not just to speed up my comic, but also for my health! If I could draw twice as fast, I could cut down my drawing time a little (and still increase my output). My shoulder would really benefit from that.

Writing: quality.

[AmysGames]

Right now I wish I was faster at drawing my comic. I went on hiatus because trying to churn out a page once a week was just too much for me, and I wish it wasn't that way. I could get so much more done!

[LT1986]

I want to improve the quality of my comic. Speed comes from doing things over and over just like art improvement. I still find speed to be easier to improve, if I stop studying and trying new things. My art doesn't easily improve just by slowing down. It takes not only slowing down, but a lot of concentration to improve my art. Speed eventually comes naturally. I've also noticed that there are content creators that have amazing art work and long time periods between uploads get more views than creators with art work that could be considered not as good that upload three times as often.

[Luminosophy]

Don't these two go hand in hand? The better you get at your craft, the faster you'll become. Unless you're constantly creating things you're not used to.

I came here to say this. I feel like it's a big misconception that focusing on quality means you'll only get slower and slower. It's only slower at the start while you're learning. Do it enough and you can pump out highly rendered images very fast just from memory. I mean, just look at environmental concept artists who can paint a very convincing (and gorgeous) landscape in under 30mins. They just have the knowledge and practice behind them to bash it out fast. At that point you're no longer thinking about it, it's just a feeling because it's so deeply embedded.

[McAmps]

Speed. Not that I want to whip out pages that look awful, but I feel like I'll naturally improve as I go, so being able to get through that process faster would be cool.

[thomassayle]

basically where your art is now but double it, but will still take the same amount of time and effort it does for you now.

[monotone_ink]

Speed - the quality naturally comes with time and practice the more you work.

Also:

Writing: quality.

I'd agree that it's best to take your time with this--this would come in the form of plotting out the entirety of your story beforehand as well as taking a measured pace while storyboarding/planning chapters.

[ben]

I’m currently working full time in comics and I will always always always say speed for a couple reasons.

1.) Speed is the way into a following. I’m sure there are outliers but for 99% of people this remains true. When I was updating my comic 4 pages a day every weekday I was getting followers in the hundreds everyday without fail. Early on when I was still trying to get my footing it was really clear to see how speed had an impact on audience growth.

2.) When you work fast, you work more and you end up learning along the way how to get the most quality in the shortest amount of time because you’re technically just getting more PRACTICE in. Sure, my comics aren’t as 100% perfect as I would like them to be but the audience doesn’t really care as long as they’re getting the content they want and they don’t know what MY idea of perfect is. And now I have a big graphic novel project with a publisher I love that I’m taking my actually time on and it’s easily the best looking comic I’ve ever done and it’s because I got the amount of practice I got.

3.) Deadlines.

[rmdooley]

I would rather have better quality and then learn how to produce that at a faster level than speed up the ability to make work at its current level of quality

[Draconic]

This topic is not really suitable for new artists. I think I should point out a few things.

As a beginner, quality is more important.
You need to learn how to practice first before you can draw fast. Learn how to walk properly before you can run.

As a student, both is important at the same time. Now you learn how to deal with deadline.
You need to learn how to balance your art quality and finalize your project for a fixed period of time.

As a professional artist, speed is more important.
No matter how fast you draw at this point, your quality is always at the acceptable level.

The diffirent between a professional and a beginner is at the art quality, because anyone can draw fast.

[Shanny8]

I'd like to go faster, but I rather have quality over quantity. If there were a way I could get both, then...

[ZombieOwl]

I'd like to go faster while maintaining my current quality. I think I'm pretty happy with my chibi/simple style, but to be able to speed up a bit would be nice. I really want to create a buffer for my comic

Other comics that I'm working on however, I'd be willing to sacrifice speed for quality... I have high standards for myself that I can't bring myself to let go of; things just look so nice when I take my time!

[Zhengo]

My wish every birthday is to be able to draw as fast as sanic.

[Zushi]

Usually the better you get at your craft, the faster you will produce it since you'll find shortcuts, and certain techniques etc to speed the process up while maintaining reasonable quality. But still, I'd like to be faster so maybe i can make more buffers

[racarter]

I’d rather get faster. I’m one parts depressed, one parts lazy, and one parts too hung up on details.

I actually have gotten better and faster, to the point I churned out twice as many pages in a shorter time than it took me to make my first chapter - and the quality was significantly better.

But I’d rather be faster. Naturally I’d like to get better too but given my current quality I think it’s pretty impressive how fast I make them anyway.

One problem I have is that my stick figure rough drafts somehow portray emotion 10x better than my actual pages. So I spend a decent amount of time wondering how the heck that happens, try to fix it, somehow make it worse, until eventually they all just end up looking constipated, then I just gotta go “screw it” cuz I get angry if I’m on a page for too long.

[beta1042]

Although I want to one day be able to push out better quality and learn overall how to be a better artist, in terms of making comics I just want to be faster. I have so many stories to tell! Being able to draw more would be great.

[Jenny-Toons]

Faster.

Usually, I'm kinda able to skim on quality a wee bit by covering up mistakes or focusing more on the dialouge than the backgrounds.

[danitasibert]

I always work with quality, its really important, but its would be nice to have speed with work, like a nice consistent schedule that's not a problem.

[JeanGuillet]

As a beginner, quality is more important.You need to learn how to practice first before you can draw fast. Learn how to walk properly before you can run.

As a student, both is important at the same time. Now you learn how to deal with deadline.You need to learn how to balance your art quality and finalize your project for a fixed period of time.

As a professional artist, speed is more important.No matter how fast you draw at this point, your quality is always at the acceptable level.

The diffirent between a professional and a beginner is at the art quality, because anyone can draw fast.

couldn't say it better than this. the needs change over time. All you guys out there with art pain, go lift, do some hammering, chop some wood. You need to exercise more muscles than just the art ones. And take it easy on yourself, you only have one set of joints, use them wisely.