i mean if you are good artist (i can't draw for the life of me) i agree drawing is easier because you can draw one panel and say more then you would in few paragraphs , after all "A picture is worth a thousand words" exist for a reason
No, I get you. Writing prose is just such a drag for me. I also just feel like I can’t get the subtlety I want with my characters with writing prose either. Prose writing hinges on knowing EXACTLY what’s going on in a character’s head at all times. I don’t really want my audience to know exactly what’s going on in my character’s heads though. I want the audience to sort of guess.
To me, drawing is witchcraft, magic, the DARK ARTS!
Seriously, think about it.
Someone starts drawing lines on a piece of paper, random incoherent lines that somehow, eventually down the road, magically transform into something you can understand.
Witchcraft I tell you!
Sorcerers all of them!
They made a deal with a being out of this world for that skill!
But no seriously, I love art, I love artists, and what all of you do just seems like magic to me.
I could never do it. I find it impossible and I am absolutely mesmerized when I have the rare opportunity to observe an artist as they work. I always pay close attention and look at every stroke, yet I always miss the moment the magic happens. That almost miraculous transformation from random squiggly lines to something my brain can interpret as something more.
Now writing, man writing is hell. Good writing is hard and it takes practice, like LOTS of it. And when you are done with that you have to edit 
Creating stories on the other hand? I can do that in my sleep. Literally, l go to bed, wake up, and all these ideas and stories are swimming in my head. If I'm stuck on a story on how to progress, I go to bed, wake up, and the solution is there.
You see, in my opinion, good writing has nothing to do with creating stories. They are two separate skill sets and both are required in order to create something good that will have an audience (or at least I like to imagine so).
I find joy creating stories, figuring out unexpected twists, planning every detail, trying to outsmart the audience and at the same time entertain them. Give them something to remember.
But when it comes to trying to put it on paper, into sentences that don't bore you to death, that makes you want to keep reading, I basically scream in frustration and anger, doubt everything I know, and eventually I write down one half-decent sentence.
I'll leave you with one of my favourite quotes of all time from Alan Moore.
"Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words, or images, to achieve changes in consciousness."
Same here. It breaks me out of the zone if there’s any background noise or someone is shouting at me for attention. Lol! 
I’ll get really mad and bad tempered.
I can see why some writers like to go off to a retreat.
There's also the problem of not wanting to tell instead of show, but worrying whether the audience will understand what's going on. I usually know what's going through my character's head but conveying it to the audience is A STRUGGLE
I get what you mean! For me, I love creating stories, so I think about my characters and ideas a lot. Music is especially inspiring for this. However, for me as cool as these ideas are and no matter how much of the story I know, structuring it on paper and making sure it's understandable to the audience is the harder part.
Art is such a relaxing yet frustrating hobby. It takes years to learn how to draw something decent, but when it comes to drawing something super complicated, oh boy is it a struggle. I'm always amazed when artists are able to make such complicated artworks so easily!
I personally like making the art more than the writing. But I can't make a comic without writing a bit.
I feel just like that but for writing/story-crafting 
. Whenever I try it I'm like... what.... huh? How do people talk? What does a coherent sequence of events even look like?
As of now, I'm an artist first... and writer far second. Which is kind of ironic considering it used to be the opposite way around for many years when I was younger, and I began drawing as a kid to illustrate the stories I was already making.
Idk, it's just so hard to write a coherent story 
When trying to plot and structure stories my brain just doesn't want to cooperate, and my imagination apparently ceases to exist.
I'm not that good with actual writing (aside from storytelling), either. I don't have a particularly good way with words, my vocabulary sucks, I don't know how to express anything. I can't even pretend it's because English is not my native language, because in my native language, I'm just as bad, if not worse.
I probably badly lack practice with writing, and could improve if I worked on that... but I just don't enjoy practicing writing in the same way I enjoy practicing art. 
I'm an artist first, but I find writing wayyy easier, but on a physical level. It really is MUCH easier to conceptualize a picture than a written scene, character voices, etc... But in the end of the day, the amount of each I can do before I get tired or my hand gets sore is not even a contest. I can write in a day what a comic (or even just storytelling illustrations) would take a year to get to.
Yeah I'm the opposite as well. I write for fun, actually, it's not really my job, and so there's just a lot less stress there. It's so much more enjoyable for me. But with art I'm always trying to push myself because everything I draw represents me on a professional level. And that's not to dismiss the talent of writing, because it takes a long time to develop and yeah, it's hard to do. And yeah, I also can't listen to music with words when I write, but that's not to say it's harder for me than the art is, it just takes concentration time.
And honestly, I think art and writing are so intertwined in comic creation, that you can't truly dismiss the fact that when you are setting up the composition of your panels and laying out the words and all that--you're still writing. It's a visual form of communication, but that is communication. The expressions I give to my characters is still something I think a lot about, and even if the episode were completely silent, I need to be able to tell a story by the unspoken dialogue of character movement and panel composition. So like...what's hard about writing is still something you have to do in art all the time.
I don't really go into auto-mode until I get to the coloring stage, and even then, I'll still have to sit back and make color drafts to make sure everything will sync in the end. And then, after I'm done with art...it's back to doing stretching exercises because I get mad carpal tunnel. So like...there is a physical aspect to it that like...it's comparing apples and oranges with art and writing, but for me art is like running sprints, and writing is like walking a mountain. Both are hard and satisfying in different ways, and both can compliment the other and make you stronger.
Same here, hence why I got a writer, it's less stressful, plus it's nice having someone to butt heads with n debate comic ideas with
I like drawing illustrations, and since I've been drawing for a long time now, it flows easily for me. I can draw with distractions going on around me, but damn is it harder to write when others are having a conversation. Like my mind will gravitate toward the words being spoken instead of focusing on the words I have to craft. However, the TV doesn't affect this. I often write late at night with the TV on something mindless like HGTV or the Food Network.
However, I still prefer writing as my main story-telling medium. It's just simply faster to complete a whole story than with comics. My comic took 5 years to complete whereas my novel (with a much more intricate plot) was finished in little over 1 year.
I can come up with good scenes and plots, but I find writing them as a script to be rather difficult which I have been doing for years. Now I just write down things I don't want to forget such as dialogue and drafts and then I just carefully storyboard chapters. But that's just what works for me.
I am somewhat similar, I need complete silence to write anything. I have auditory processing disorder and sometimes my brain can't really filter sounds and words properly and I often feel very overloaded.
I find drawing easier because I do not have to do this. I also find math easy for the exact same reason.
While making art that looks good may take time. I feel like writing something that isn't a jumbled mess takes far longer.
For me, it depends upon my mood and what's going on with my mind. When I'm in the writing mode, I can't draw anything because my brain is so chaotic. Art, however, will calm my mind and put me into a meditative state. I love them both the same. They know how to appease my ever-changing mental state lol.
YES! A good majority of my work comes from my dreams. If I reach a spot that has me wondering which way to go or how to resolve something my jerk of a subconscious thought would be a great idea, I fall asleep in the shower and wake up with a solution.
I love meeting someone like me!!! 
Personally art for me is a lot easier even though both require a lot of focus. I think with drawing even where there's a difficult pose or a lot of details I'm not struggling too much because once I'm in the zone i'm in it and not a lot can pull me out unless it's like, super distracting
meanwhile with writing I have to have like laser focus and a clear head not to mention specific environment elements depending on what i'm writing. like committing words to page is challenging for me and unless i've already kind of got a flow going everything feels janky. conceptualizing ideas is a no brainier but phrasing things in a way that works is a piece of work which is probably why i'm dedicated to comics than novels but hold high respect for our wordsmiths out there
like one thing i have to wonder for writers is do you also have the thing where you can only listen to certain music while writing a scene (if you do choose to listen to music) otherwise your brain starts coming up with scenes that fit the song playing? because if i'm writing a quiet dialogue scene i can't have something high power and action-y because then my brain starts going into that space and i wanna script a fight scene or something
Aahh same — as an artist, writing takes much more out of me than drawing.
I've done illustrations for years now, so drawing feels natural and doesn't require too much mental focus whereas when I'm writing dialogue and plot points, I have to be almost hyperfocused, undistracted, and so forth. I could be writing from my bed, but I still feel extremely drained because of the brain juice it requires 