I find myself doin that especially if I'm happy with the page.

One time I didnt know that 30 minutes have passed and I'm just staring at the damn page. :)

When I feel I've done a good comic, I stare at it admirably... <3

...nobody saw that...

Yes... I keep looking at mistakes.

Priest_Revan
Yes... I keep looking at mistakes.

I admire a comic page of mine I really like for a long while....and end up finding mistakes! =D

Not at any one single page, no, but then I'm the writer not the artist.

However, when I do go back to look at a page, I often find myself sucked into reading the next. And then the next. And then ... well, right on through until I've read all the completed pages I have. Even though I know what happens next, I just get caught up in the story!

*looks up from her own comic* Hmm? Did you say something?

If I did less of that, I'd have twice as many pages drawn.

Obsessively? No. I enjoy looking at my work from time to time. I'm constantly surprised I didn't screw them up more.

Later,
Chip

Does all the times I check for comments count? :)

I have to admit a bit of professional pride (some might arguably say ego) in our work on Due East, so I do stare a bit at the work after it's done, but obsessively? I dunno about that.

DAJB
However, when I do go back to look at a page, I often find myself sucked into reading the next. And then the next. And then ... well, right on through until I've read all the completed pages I have. Even though I know what happens next, I just get caught up in the story!

I do that all the time. If I go to check something on a page -- like I'm trying to remember a name or draw a detail on a character I haven't drawn in a while -- I find myself reading through several dozen pages or more. I can't stop myself.

Occasionally, I'll appreciate a page like that, but not too often.

Every time I finish a page lol! I'll stare and stare and stare. Sometimes, I even end up staring at single panels, clutching at my head and gasping: damn, I'm brilliant! I know I said exactly that when I did the Cheap Wine bottle.

And then, a week later, I look at the same page and I'm like: meeeh... And I promise myself the next one will be better.

I try not to, because then I start finding mistakes, and I get annoyed and want to go back and fix them when I should be working on the next page, lol.

I can't say that I stare at my pages...

but I tend to look (and by 'look' I mean google, forum-lurk, et al) for comments on my comics... mainly because I enjoy criticism. I guess I'm weird :/

So I don't stare at em... but I tend to try and find people who do... if that makes sense.

I read each page over and over before submitting it. Sometimes I then realise that the timing or whatever doesn't really work and then I change it or completely scrap it >.>

I tend not to look back at my old comics and wish they'd been better. If anything, I think my comic started off awesome and got worse :p

I stare at my comic so much for the hours when I'm drawing it that by the time I'm finished, I don't really feel like looking at it too much.
I mean, I'm not gonna find any surprises in my art- I'm the one who drew it, after all.

but with my paintings it's easier to get lost in them cause they're so detailed, and you can see all the little brushstrokes. (I used this very paintbrush--
to do very large portions of ginormous paintings. people used to look at me like I was crazy...)

I do that before I scan it in. If I do a lot of editing to the page in photoshop, like I did with my recent page... I'll stare at it in photoshop for a while and triple check to make sure everything is right. Then I'll post it. Then I'll go through and reread the rest of my pages just to see if it all makes sense still.

I tend to stare at mine for like an hour and a half. Partially to go oooh ahhh... partially to find the hundreds of inevitable mistakes I have mystically conjured unknowingly, and partly because I have A.D.D. and everything in my comic is just so bright and shiny and colorful that I can't not stare at it. Then again I do the same thing with many of the b&w comics on DD... so I'm probably just weird like that.

I find that I notice mistakes in the scan which I could never pick up on the paper no matter how much I stare at the paper.

So even though I don't like staring at the scan onscreen, I end up doing a lot of that too.

I stare at them. Sometimes I love them and sometimes I hate them. Usually though, very soon after looking at them I just wish I was looking at the next one.

ozoneocean
I stare at them. Sometimes I love them and sometimes I hate them. Usually though, very soon after looking at them I just wish I was looking at the next one.

I have to agree with you Ozone. I never know what the next one will look like and I even like to surprise myself with the next results.

Yeah, it's a big rush when you finish the next page and think to yourself "wow I RAWK how can I top myself now?!?"

And then you finish the page after that, and think to yourself the same exact thing while in addition remembering that you thought the same thing last time.

Which makes you even more psyched because now you want to see how you can top yourself again even though you can't see how you can do that atm.

Wow, what?

I check my site after it uploads the new one to see what comments I got he day before and if the page has any glaring or wierd errors. Although I've already done extensive proof reading beforehand, I still fuck up a lot.

Yeah, I don't think it is healthy, I always remind myself, that if I spend 30 minutes starring at a page, that is just more mistakes I'll find, and no reader is going to spend that much time looking at the page, and lastly, that is 30 minutes you could spend on the next page. =]

Hyptosis
no reader is going to spend that much time looking at the page,

You'd be surprised what the reader can see that you can't... :p

I stare at them, pretty often, because like Ozone, that makes me soon want to get the next page up. Like the one I am doing now with the cameos. I also tend to stop and stare at the page when I'm done with the pencil stage. Usually because I have to wait before I can scan it in and continue lol!

I can't wait until Wolf is all done and I can read it all at one go. *wistful sigh*

For my strip the artwork isn't important. It's the script that rocks my socks off . . . or not, as the case may be. I'll go back from time to time and see if the dialog still holds up and if the punchline was as good as I thought, but , no, I don't spend much time admiring my own work. It's the next posting that captures my attention, or, really, the process of crafting the next gag.