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the hardest part for me has always been staying focused the whole time ngl. this is why i posted earlier about how it's easier for me to draw in the mornings because that's when my focus is sharpest. i dont have anything smart to add here just rambling about my process and experiences

while the length of time it takes pro mangaka to draw a page differs highly from person to person, 3 hours is considered "fast" and 6 hours is the limit for being pro
it takes me 3.5-5 hours to draw a page these days depending on how many backgrounds and panels there are... so i guess it's... okay??

also i'm not sure if you're referring to beta as in beta reading or beta as in "filling in the black areas of a drawing" but i just realized you might be referring to the former and im referring to the latter OOPS

that is true BUT to be fair with digital flows things like beta are extremely trivial and don't require an assistant. however if someone did backgrounds for me it would probably cut at least a week out of the production time. i just can't in good faith ask anyone to do that for a free hobby project

everyone has been really understanding of the pace of production which i really appreciate. it just bothers me because im a SICKO and i KNOW WHATS COMING UP NEXT and i WANT TO SHOW EVERYONE NOW ‼️‼️‼️‼️

i do think this is kind of my fault because i've definitely let detail creep increase the average amount of time a page takes and i also board fairly sequentially with a tight grip on timing which requires more pages than if i didn't. but i can't let that go grrrr

the most frustrating thing about comics for me is that in a 30 page chapter you can cover the equivalent of like 10 mins of a tv show or 10 pages of a literary novel and it takes 1-2 months to produce if you work a normal job so no matter what any longform narrative proceeds at the speed of molasses

its really frustrating for me because i want to release chapters such that the story actually progresses with a reasonable pace but the fact is that comics just take a really long time to draw. sorry everyone

i definitely wont finish before my mid march commitments.. im sry but the chap will be coming out in the second half of march most likely. working on it every day without doing much else and it still isnt enough </3

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i aint drawing all that 👌

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ive been grinding pages because there are so many games and irl commitments in like a week that if i dont finish soon the chapter will take even longer

nyan

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i agree with u

A young hhetsarro boy named Koana with green hair and light clothing. He has cat-like ears and a tail.

Sketches of a hhetsarro boy named Koana

A concept piece of what clothing adults in Koana's village would wear.

Sketches of a hhetsarro boy named Koana and the Cornservant. A rabbit and coyote can be seen.

Sketches from picture book "Me and the Cornservant". Story by Final Fantasy XIV senior story designer Banri Oda and illustrations by Naoki Ikushima (Adv. of Elliot, Octopath Traveler, DQ III HD-2D) and Rina Yoshiura (Adv. of Elliot, Octopath Traveler 0, DQ I&II HD-2D).
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We made dinner do you want some

I actually like the chili crisp one more but i think its bc i eat a lot more than just chinese food and its more versatile than black bean. Black bean is best in chinese food tho

black bean is the more popular one in china so chinese ppl agree with u

I definitely remember a similar convo from manben!

Yeah that's what I mean by efficient. spending less overall hours for the same result because you were in top form the whole time. It's so much better... it can just be hard to keep up with