How Long Do You Spend On Drawings?

Fayore · Moderator Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 6195

My sketches are never planned. In fact, I don't do sketches very often; I just go straight to the paper with a pen/marker/fineliner most of the time. o_o;

Those drawings, depending on what they are, can take anywhere from 30mins to 5h+ to complete.
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the_CrEePiE · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 1:00 am Post subject:

I spend about 15 minutes at the most on rough sketches. But for "high quality" stuff, it takes at least 30 minutes or more, depending on whether I wanna put color or shading in, how big it is, and how detailed it is.
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Ogrim_Doomhammer · Oldbie Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 2116

Usually i dont draw a whole drawing in one sit.

It takes me about an hour just to think what im doing and then when i have the idea it takes another hour to get a good angle or something, about 30-40+ minutes sketching if I need to erase then its like 1 hour, and then about an hour shading.
But if I sit down and make a drawing without getting distracted it gets a lot better and faster... but usually it takes me about.... 1 month to finish the drawing cuz i start it and never finish it...
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L7 · Very bored Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 210

An hour most of the time. I hate drawing. <_< So I paint. Which takes an hour also.

JINTEIthe76thKAISER · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 10:15 pm Post subject:

2-3 hours. Period.
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ReapersRitual · Rookie Joined: 17 May 2005 Posts: 38

On average 2 - 4 hours I guess unless I'm doing a biro pic like Bulling Kills ,those take a little longer.The more I'm enjoy drawing/colouring a pic,the quicker it gets done.

celestina67 · Would like fries with that Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 811

to me i don't keep track of how long i spend on a drawing..i just draw

Fayore · Moderator Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 6195

Ah, I love painting. I usually don't have the proper material to use as a canvas, so I don't do it very often. The last time I painted, it was on my school wall. Smile

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Stratadrake · Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 9:42 am Post subject:

Hmm... like I said earlier, I generally put 4-5 hours of work into ecah of my drawings. However, if you measure time as when I completed it vs. when I started it, I "spend" about a week on any given drawing....
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NEVERBENORMAL · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 10:34 am Post subject:

ok lemme see... it takes me about 30 min to do a comic like inuyasha goues bonkers stuff cuz i flip thru my manga to learn how to draw the faces... i use alot of reference for those.

i can draw jak and daxter in like 1 to 5 minutes easy with out reference

inuyasha takes a little longer cuz i didnt get mich practise with him yet...

pokemon come easy 1 to 5 minutes

and my dragons dont take very long either... maybe 10 minutes... if i add all of the funky details it takes longer and that goes for all my pics...

link is easy 1 to 5 minutes...

oni link takes5 to 10 minutes to get his armor rite and put in all the little designs.

my pics where i draw a whole room or backround take longe cuz i have to draw everything... maybe 30 min? around there... kilala is easy 1 to 5 min.

and everything else is around 1 to5 min

it probably sounds like im braggin buh im NOT!!!

trust me i am telling the truth ^_^
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BlackWolf · Very bored Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 201

hmm I don't normally measure the time spent on drawings, but I have a pretty good idea =/

for a regular sketch, I can spend about an hour on it before it is completed and there are no distractions: Starry Blanket

a full colored pencil peice usually takes me about a week, on and off, so that probably measures out to 10 hours: Restful Evening

A digital art peice takes me forever (it seems) to complete. My longest was about 20+ hours: Spirit's Path

1_4lvl · Member Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 87

My still life paintings usualy take me a 'bout 3 sessions, which is about 6 hours total. Sometimes a bit more, sometimes less.

I try to do my sketches in less than 10 minutes, but it depends on what I'm drawing. There are many variables, like if I'm sketching from life or imgination, what I'm drawing, and if it's a person, the pose is a major factor.

For finished drawings, I'm not real sure. I usualy wind up in my own little world, so I loose track of time. If I had to guess, anywhere from 6-20 hours, minumum.

BrainDead · Forum contributor Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 740

my best picture or most best urned out one maybe took 30mins to 45mins otherwise i regularly draw in like 15mins

Meredianna · Has No Life Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 526

Most of my drawings that I post here are photoshopped.

hmm... so overall

min: 3 hours.

max: 20 hours

Brianhjh · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:55 am Post subject:

9x12 paper...

Gouache - 2 hours
Watercolour - 1.5
Marker - 1

Colored Pencil - 4 hours :angry:

Does Staratadrake even sleep? all of her drawings are in colored pecils!
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Halo343GS · Newb Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 17

none? if comp graphics count then....i dunno. 2 hrs everyday?

eidan_eishou · Very bored Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 120

Hm, that depends on alot of things. How much of a perfectionist you are, how good you are at drawing/coloring with a mouse, how thorough your knowledge of the program is, and how much experience you have with the program. Anyways, I usually spend around half an hour (initial sketch) and another ten minutes adding little details and darkening the lines and shading.

Rindi_chan · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:16 pm Post subject:

I can sympathise with that. I stopped drawing on the computer for about a year because my new laptop came with a touchpad and I couldn't do anything with it. Now that I have a tablet, things are all good once more. Still, takes me a heck of a lot longer to draw something with the tablet than to draw something on paper.

Diathene · Very bored Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 109

I spend about 10-15 mins on a sketch. [link]
5~ hours on a "quick" digital piece. [link]
25+ hours on comissioned pieces, or those I intend to make prints of (i.e high dpi).[link]

dolphinprincess · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:49 am Post subject:

I spend around 5-10 minutes trying to perfect a drawing (and that's not with photoshop or anything since I don't have it). The longest I have spent on a good drawing (including coloring/shading) was probably 2-3 hours.
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