savageorange said:
???

Like, how long should a drawing like the one I made take to draw? Say, by someone who consistently draws in the same art style and has just under 2 years of experience but without formal art education?

I guess I shouldn't have said 9 days. It's more like 4 hours x 9 = 36 hours total. I will admit a lot of the time was spent on erasing and staring over, though I can't tell how much exactly.

The friend that I asked made this in an hour. He said this was after a month of practice, but he had some experience beforehand.

Daleport996 said:
(much clearer)

36 hours is pretty slow, but how quickly you get to a finished design is tied a lot to how quickly you can iterate on your design.
Not knowing how you work, I can only speculate that you might be trying to paint most of the thing out before deciding it's wrong. Drawing it (just defining borders of things) can be enough to show whether a design will work. Being timid (not pushing/exaggerating things) also seems to be a common problem. It should be acceptable to produce crazy shit in order to help identify what exactly could work and look cool. Just trying to nail the right note, immediately, makes people stiff and unartistic, IME.

Your friend's work seems fast and reasonably solid. With only 2 years experience, I wouldn't expect him to be able to do that consistently. Whether he loves the particular subject probably counts a lot.