Sijun Forums :: View topic - How much time do you spend on art per day?

dr . bang · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 4:33 am

singing doesnt count. So how much do you spend on it? I'm very curious

Svanur · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 4:58 am

If I am lucky 1-2 hour, but I work like 5 hours on graphic for my company, which sucks as they would like to have it all black and white and nothing but text. (They are a bit old fashioned.)

Jezebel · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 5:10 am

I spend plenty of time looking at art but not enough time making my own. Although lately I've been getting better about actually creating. It's upsetting because I know I could be a much, much better artist now if I had practiced more in my spare time over the last few years. I've gone through periods where I haven't drawn a single thing for months and months. Fortunately I learn fast and I'm practicing more now

gLitterbug · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 5:30 am

I finished my military service 3 weeks ago and now I�m sitting at home and trying to learn as much as possible to become good enough to make a living out of my "hobby".
My problem is similar to Jezebel�s, the years before my military service, I was in technical college and had as good as no time to draw, what was the reason for me to quit school.
Now I have enough time to practise as much I want per day. Hope I will soon be as good as some other artists on this board.

Freddio · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 6:36 am

on avg..

30mins a day..

in my sketch book just mucking around... I love that

Some days my art suxs other days It kicks ass... Lukily it kicks ass most days heh... well imo heh.

although usually on top of that I have a 50 minute art period. and once every two weeks I have a 100 min period.

but in the hollidays thats another matter.. thats when I paint.. I usually only paint in 1 hour sessions..

(short attention span)

micke · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 6:52 am

About 10 hours each day. Work(8hours) extra work(2hours)

Silybum · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 8:50 am

'sigh' same here; too much looking at others people art and not doing it myself. I'm also trying to do more; trying to use my stubborn streak for something useful for once and actually finish something... my biggest problem overall is starting in the first place. Wierd, I totally enjoy doing it but to sit down and start I find difficult. Lately I noticed that when I start doing something without any preperation or thought, just sit and do it, it goes much better... guess overthinking kills me; that and my impossible expectations of myself. Sometimes I forget how much fun this is suppose to be...

shardik · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 9:17 am

yeah, me too.. ive only been sketching occasionally... although im always on this forum looking at other people's stuff... hah, ive been on here since it started andhave still only posted one image

v1510nAry · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 10:02 am

mmm I just sit after school do no homework and sketch for around 2 hours, wonder around then come back and sketch for 1....

I do no homework at all...Very very bad, but I'm top in my art and music class

nova · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 10:14 am

Lessee.. I'm in independent study in an art class at school and work on my own stuff for 1.5 hours, then I work on graphic design and some 3D stuff at work for 4 hours on average. At home, it's about 1 hour sketching, and if I want to finish something, that's about 5 hours. I browse these forums for about 2 hours, sometimes while working on art.

..then I try to wake up the next morning

[ May 22, 2001: Message edited by: Nova ]

Socar MYLES · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 10:16 am

Hm...depends on the day, really. Usually 7-10 hours, some sketching, some painting, some useless farting about comparing one picture to another and trying to figure out what went wrong with each.

Occasionally, I am sulky, however, and draw for only 2-3 hours. Shame on me. But when I'm not actually drawing, I tend to be looking at art. If I don't, I get all antsy. Neeeed...mooore...arrrrt.... You know.

saripol · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 10:17 am

not as much as i would like to.. work(which is not art related..

) is consuming much of my time i have like 3-4 hour per week that i could spend on art... bleh

Mergatroid · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 10:34 am

I'm logging in about 8-9 hours a day M-F for work. The weekends vary depending on whats happening. I wish I had more time to practice playing on my banjo though.

Grendel Khan · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 12:07 pm

About 1-3 hours a day. Lately, 0 minutes a day

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Frost · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 4:35 pm

I don't do art at work... but I'll put in about 6 hours a week including weekends, which isn't much at all. Mostly doodling stuff in photoshop.

burn0ut · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 4:44 pm

around 6hrs on a good day, 2 on a lazyday

jasonN · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 9:16 pm

I go through weird moods with my art. It all really depends on how I feel.
But no matter what I am *always* sketching. Even if it's in my school books or whatever, I have very itchy fingers and can't keep away.
Colouring, digital painting and doing something finished is a different thing entirely. Sometimes I wont finish anything for months. Other times I'll go through an intense week or two where I'll do about 3 hours per day no including all the doodling.

clay · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 10:02 pm

I think I spent 12 hours on art a day but about 6 hours producing it. For the other half, I think about what I want to do ..and end up doing something a bit different..which is always exciting...but I'm still trying to focus on things that would be useful to me...such as not sitting down and staring at the white washed wall....and getting crazy when someone else does a better job than I do....envy makes me slow...

but being in school for more than 12 hours help me to get more things done than working on a painting in my bedroom

5ds · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 11:21 pm

12-14 h/day!
Wuuuuuu.......!

-Tepox- · Posted: Tue May 22, 2001 11:52 pm

about 10h. Here in "redneck village" is nothing else to do. Except get drunk! yeah, what a life!

Gimbal8 · Posted: Wed May 23, 2001 10:31 am

When I was a kid and through high school I'd probably spend maybe 5 hours a week on art. From graduation to about age 26 I'd spend about 10 hours a year doing art. This year I've been shooting for about 2 hours a day. Recently I've been able to maintain that to some degree.

I hope to continue or increase that pace, but life usually has different plans.

Bg · Posted: Wed May 23, 2001 10:49 am

6 hours making my own art and 4 hours browsing other people's work.

Briareos · Posted: Thu May 24, 2001 1:14 am

NOT ENOUGH!

eric_morrell · Posted: Thu May 24, 2001 2:39 pm

about 4 to 5 hours of concentrating on art and about 3 hours total of doodling on top of that. But during both periods I always get distracted. I can't take any more than that, I become unpatient and have to go listen to music loudly and do something. But then again I'm weird that way.

failsafe · member Member # Joined: 29 Mar 2000 Posts: 63

Yeah I'm the same as Micke on this one, although it seems like its 10 working and 2 on extra work

roundeye · Posted: Thu May 24, 2001 3:19 pm

does "design" count? i spent 9-10 hours a day on design projects for a year while sketching very little. but when i started drawing again i found that the two are more closely related than i had once thought. and some of the skills are interchangeable and complimentary. now-a-days, combining design and drawing, about 8 hours a day. blah blah blah

surferboi · Posted: Fri May 25, 2001 1:09 am

i guess if i averaged it all out i suppose it would only be like 2hrs a day. I dont do art for a living, but i want to. Which is sad when i read all these other guys drawing 10x more then I do.

Enayla · Posted: Fri May 25, 2001 5:30 am

Every moment I have to spare. This varies wildly from day to day. I do a lot of art work at my two jobs, and then even more at home. Sometimes, I end up having sat in front of the computer drawing for sixteen hours... sometimes even more (I remember a ghastly episode one weekend - when I got up at nine in the morning and worked on a few pictures till nine next morning. I was completely exhausted for days and couldn't draw anything useful for quite a while).

I'd like to say that for as long as I'm not doing anything else that's constructive and useful (cleaning the apartment, hanging out with my friends, taking care of my cat, etcetera), I'm working on art. Whether it's mulling over ideas, writing them down, roleplaying, drawing, or just doodling, depends on my mood... but it's still "art" (though I hate to define it like art).

Anyway... with this I mean: I probably work too much with it. I'll have bored myself within a few years. But then again, I'm having loads of fun right now =)

Etict · Posted: Fri May 25, 2001 9:43 am

8 Hours work-art, after that as much as I can (which is after 6 pm), but i'm kinda lazy and simple personality so I usually spend hours on playing games and browsing, etc. Lately, though, i've been trying to kick my ass more, which has been QUITE succesful.

Lunatique · Posted: Fri May 25, 2001 1:04 pm

M-F at least 8 to 10 hours a day. Weekends usually reserved for other creative work(music, writing, photography..etc). At work I do concept art, paint textures, and when I take breaks, I sketch in my sketchbook. On wednesdays I do 2 hours of figure drawing with life models. I rarely do formal paintings for myself anymore, since I never have time to do my other creative work, so I try to do those whenever I'm not at work.