"How much time does it take you to work on all these details?"
Is a question that comes up every once in a while on the more detailed images I create and for the longest time, I didn't know myself.
The cause of this is my multi-piece working system, which means that I'm working on more than one piece at any given art creating session. I can work on inking a picture for most of an hour, then take a break, get away from the desk to flex my body a bit, make tea and return only to put the ink away, to finish up a sketch or work on a completly new ink/sketch.
This results in some inks taking more than a few days to complete, not even mentioning times when I switch media, from traditional to digital, putting some half-made inks/sketches on hold for weeks.
So back in early 07.2024 I made this little experiment on one of the more complex ink pieces I was working on at that time (and a one with a high-priority, meaning it required me to finish it within a reasonable time frame).
I kept watch on the clock and I took a photo every 30 minutes while I worked on this art trade piece https://www.patreon.com/posts/108781520
It took me under 4h of inking to take the image from pencil to ink (added 30min, because of some little touch-ups after erasing the pencil and extra sketching up the background details once the characters were mostly inked) over the course of 5 days. So if I'd have to guesstimate, the image took around 10h to complete, including sketching and adding digital colors.
Art © me ;3