Wanna be an animator?
By my calculations…
In order to be the animator that you want to be you’ll have to draw at least 27 drawings a day.
Wanna be a comic book artist?
In comic books this would equate to (a minimum) of one finished page (of pencils) per day.
I haven’t factored it but I’m going to guess a comic strip artist should average three (rough) strips every day while completing at least one (a fourth from a previous rough) every day.
If you take off on weekends (which you should) you may need to put in a little more time during the weekdays. Rough out those extra drawings to get the ideas down on paper.
This image is a little hard to read but read what is inside and around the boxed area.
So, what does this really mean?
Draw more than one drawing a day!
Here’s a close up to help it sink further into the brain:
newartofanimation 
It should be noted that (at least by the numbers) at 27 drawings per day you can complete a five minute film in one year. For longer than that you have some options:
– Animate on 2s instead of 1s wherever possible/practical
– Cut out anything unnecessary to the film
– Animate economically (Don’t add extraneous detail)
– Reuse as much as you can (Consider limited animation techniques)
– Get more people involved (Note: This will tend to slow production down in the short term because now you’ve got to train people and make sure they understand the film’s direction. Once a team is established then production pace will quicken)
– Automate as much as you can. (Leverage technology!)
Given that in the last post Hans Perk points out that the Disney animators were cranking a short film of six minutes out in about three weeks each, a film consisting of 27 drawings created each day could turn into a pretty amazing thing. 🙂