how long does your comic take?

[Dragoness_Minerva]

Normally 3-4 hours. I have a feeling it's going to start taking longer though as my story progresses. The main character won't be as... generic as she is currently (and the scenery won't be as bland!).

[Jameslong]

Interesting. I was getting ready to ask a similar question, though I wish you'd have polled a little differently... seeing how some people update 3 times a week and others (like me) update only once.

A guy with a 3 panel update is only going to spend a couple hours on it. Still, if he/she updates m/w/f, that's going to be around 6 to 9 hours that week going toward the webcomic. I guess I'm trying to say this poll is dumb due to the wild variation between what webcomic artists consider an update, and schedules for said updates.

I do one page (4 to 9 panels depending) a week and due to special circumstances I'm unable to work, so I try to put in at least 4 hours a day. In total, it's not strange for a single page to take 15+ hours. If I had to break it down I'd say... 1 hour writing, 8 hours drawing, 6 hours coloring/typesetting. Everything is subject to flatulation. ER, i mean fluctuation. Sorry.

[Fourdays]

It takes me about 30 minutes to draw each strip or so....

[Zhongda]

fourdays I was hoping your answer would have been four days.

on-topic: Ranges from 30 min to 30 days. Mainly due to brainstorming ideas and concepts.

[VIIStar]

Jameslong:
Interesting. I was getting ready to ask a similar question, though I wish you'd have polled a little differently... seeing how some people update 3 times a week and others (like me) update only once.

quite true. I have no idea how long each individual page/panel takes, but 22 pages (chapter), 2 more with cover and lbb, is about 5-6 weeks.

[Jekkal]

Pages depend on the level of action and number of (different) figures I have in each. We're talking anywhere from a day's work to four days' if I'm really not careful.

I can usually manage 2-4 pages on any given week, maybe just one a week if I'm really stressing.

[BoShek]

My style of pages take about... eh, 3 to 4 hours start to finish. I always feel like it should be less 'cause even taking four hours, I'm never quite in love with how they look. They look quick and sloppy even when they're not. Script is super-fast, 5 to 10 minutes. Pencils take about hlaf an hour to an hour, inks the same and a bit over ah hour's worth of digital text adding and page building and there ya go.

I colored my title page only. It took an age and I only used flat colors.

>_<

[Quazar451]

Wayyyy to long....especially since my wife just had a baby! Quazar:451

[NakedElf]

Depends on the content... Though you'd think I'd have figured out an average by now. Meh. I can do about 4 strips plus a couple of bonus drawings a week--if I work particularly hard I can do 8 strips.

[Tarts]

Depends on the content... Though you'd think I'd have figured out an average by now. Meh. I can do about 4 strips plus a couple of bonus drawings a week--if I work particularly hard I can do 8 strips.

You're able to make one more strip than I can. ...darn.

[Redtech]

8 strips?! That's like, a whole month of mine!

[NakedElf]

They're small strips.

And I'm unemployed.

[Datachasers]

i would say 12 to 40 hours searching for items / making textures /sets ect
4 to 12 hours posing / rendering
2 to 4 hours postwork / scripting

IF you count the editing / lettering
then another 2 to 8 hours per 10 panels -

but scanvenging / making props charcters / textures is a ongoing process i spend anywhere from 1 to 5 hours ( or more ) a night on

[Levi-chan]

indefinite time to come up with the idea/theme/composition.
1-2 hours rough pencilling.
1 hour linework.
7 hours photoshop-painting.
18 hours drinking.
1-7 hours writing.

[Guyford]

Over 9 hours for the most part.

1-2 hours of drawing with pencil.
Usually less than an hour for inking.
6-9 hours for photoshop coloring.
5-20 minutes for text/bubble placement. I outlined my entire story and scripted most of the dialog for the first 70 or so pages before I started drawing them so I can shave off a little time there.

If something interesting is on TV though, I guess I can tack on another 2-4 hours...

[Eff]

4-5 hours at least!

In spite of the fact that I'm cheating with component libraries. That plan really backfired on me.

[ArcoJawa]

In general time - 4 days

In time actually used to work on the comic - 2-4 hours

I like the actual work time better, it makes me look un-lazy

[Keffria]

4-8 hours: Layout, underwork, sketching, rough backgrounds, scripting, etc.
2-3 hours: Inking
2-3 hours: Shading (or colouring, on those rare occasions when I use colour; they take roughly the same amount of time, since I use the same style when greyscaling as I do when colouring)
1-ish hour: Text/cleanup/obsessive error-correcting.

I'd probably be able to churn comics out much faster if I wasn't easily distracted.

[Webkilla]

anything from half an hour to four hours time... depending on level of detail, how much coloring is needed and most importantly:

how well I know in advance what the comic should feature - I usualy spend about 50% of the comic making time sketching the thing... (i do it 100% using a tablet to sketch and ink pretty much in the same run...)

[Redtech]

They're small strips.

And I'm unemployed.

Mine aren't "that" big.

And I am also unemployed...

On topic...

For me, I think the most time taken is pencilling because I actually try to make an effort with poses and posture and so while it isn't always perfect, it means that it takes me a while to decide what hand to hold up!