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How long do you usually take on producing what you would consider to be your fully finished artworks? -- Give or take. 

31%
388 deviants said Roughly a full work day (8 hours)
31%
384 deviants said Several work days (16~32 hours)
20%
247 deviants said 3~6 Hours
9%
109 deviants said Longer than one work week
5%
61 deviants said One work week (40 hours)
4%
53 deviants said 1~2 Hours
1%
8 deviants said Under 1 Hour

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:iconkiiro-cho:
~kiiro-cho Jan 20, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
I think it depends on what i am working on...but when it comes to nice pieces, probably a week and then some.
I take forever trying to make things perfect. and seeing as i only have either after work or before work and the weekend to work on something, things can drag. i can spend hours trying to make one bit perfect. i think i take too long. just need to work smarter i guess.
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:icong3m1n1:
~g3m1n1 Jan 19, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
depends on how i've been thinking about it and if i have a deadline. things with deadlines usually take somewhere between 3 hours to 2 days.
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:iconkrisseymage:
=KrisseyMage Jan 15, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Depends on the piece, and on my schedule ^^;

Most usually pieces will very between 4-7 hours, but there are some that take 10+ hours (those I usually play with an hour at a time for a few days, sometimes weeks).
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=accept-love-protect Jan 13, 2013  Student General Artist
It depends on the piece, really. More detailed ones take longer, simpler ones don't take as long... but roughly a work day? A little more? I guess it also depends on the size of it. I've worked on large pieces in traditional media that I had to work on over the course of days/weeks, but I didn't work on them all day due to other obligations. :shrug:
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:iconmysterycycle:
~mysterycycle Jan 12, 2013  Professional General Artist
Comics work has trained me to think that if I'm spending more than a full day on a single page, I'm working too slow or over-working the piece and probably sapping it of is vitality and dynamism. Not necessarily true of every piece, of course, but I really want to train myself to work fast as a point of professional necessity.

Also, I get impatient and fear I'll never finish a piece if I take too long. I admit, I'm a bit of an attention hound, and I can't wait to post my work online... :/
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:iconawrugro:
~awrugro Jan 11, 2013  Hobbyist
around 3-6 hours but that's cuz I just draw faces and rarely bother drawing the whole body\background..etc orz I wish I could have your determination in finishing artworks :heart:
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:iconreincarnationoffoxes:
~reincarnationOFfoxes Jan 9, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Most of my projects take over a year.
Because I'm a lazy motherfucker and don't usually take any art classes.
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:icontonystardreamer:
~tonystardreamer Jan 8, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
What do you mean by "producing" the art? You mean uploading it to DA.
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~Sarawantsacracker Jan 8, 2013  Student General Artist
About 1 hour. I do get bored easily.
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:iconcarbonassault:
I do know that when you get in the zone and things start working for you, time seems to run at double speed and before you know it, it's like 2AM or something! aargh!
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