Pet peeves when drawing comic?

[godfrey_narcisso]

Varying the shots of different panels to make dialogue scenes more interesting to look at. I hate it but it's necessary.

Headshot A is fine. Headshot B, I can manage. Isometric shot though, is the bane of my existence. Too much work that affects the flow of a scene tremendously despite their subtle, almost unnoticeable nature.

[Scarlet_Cryptid]

Right? Gosh darn physical needs and OTHER PEOPLE....

[GingerLoge]

I have a problem with too many layers too. I hate having them and seeing them, so I merge a lot or put them into folders. I like to open a project and see only one little folder under the "layers" menu.

Also @Scarlet_Cryptid I feel exactly the same about interruptions. At every interruption, my brain will switch off the working mode and there's no guarantee it'll switch back on.

[river121693]

not really a pet peeve but my enemies are the tiny cornner spots that the fill tool can't make it into

[Lensing]

For the people who use mulitple layers:
Get rid of that, it will make you improve a lot.
I was unsing multiple layers for sketches, it was getting ridiculous.
Multiple layers for coloring.
My sketches got 100% better when I stopped zooming in, turning
the canvas and using the eraser + correcting the line instead of new layers.
It´s weird and uncomfortable in the beginning but it´s worth it
The same goes for the rotating the canvas / zooming in
@GingerLoge @masi

[TheLemmaLlama]

and do chores

Welllll teeeeechnically ....

For the people who use mulitple layers:
Get rid of that, it will make you improve a lot.

Nowadays I only use one layer for colouring, unless I'm drawing reflective surfaces. It was a hard habit to break though; when you feel the need for everything to be just right, the prospect of losing that data and being unable to replicate it was kind of scary :'D

EDIT: I just thought of my actual answer to the OP. It's when this happens:

[wispysing]

I used to make layers for every little thing One for the rough sketch, another for the cleaner sketch, another one for the cleanest, before I even move on to inking and coloring (hoo boy, one for every shade and highlight).

Nowadays I try to tone down my fear of screwing up and just work with one or two layers. I agree it's been improving sketches to a considerable degree, so my art's been turning out a little messier but I ended up liking the new look anyway.

[Lensing]

I still have problems to place the head on the body when drawing a figure, but I think that´s kind of ok because
I draw the whole figure with a placeholder head/egg and then add the head.
The biggest improvement happened for me when I forced myself to only use one layer, no turning, no zooming.
It´s really surprising. I also do another practice of not sketching at all. I jump straght to the outlines.
It´s incredibly hard even though we all used to draw like that when we were kids, kids don´t sketch.
It´s a good practice to check your skills and to get better at measuring proportions and perspective.
It doesn´t look good but I´m getting better at it

[masi]

Somehow I can’t quote the reply lmao. Anyway @GingerLoge yeah me too, multiple layers makes it feel like the art isn’t connected somehow lmao.

@Lensing I actually don’t sketch anymore and jump right away into lineart so it’s actually just body lineart, hair because sometimes I want to change hair style lmao. Also background, so at the most I have 3 layers for lineart and I agree that doing it in one layer will make me improve better. Thanks for the suggestion

[masi]

This. I am currently doing a crowd establishing scene and I am soooo frustrated. Also the point about whether to over simplify or over detail

[masi]

You can use the free lasso tool to fill the lineart? But it’s true it isn’t as quick as fill tool

[ricardoaltuna]

I guess is more a pet peeve from drawing in general than just comics, but I really really hate drawing hands! I would be so happy if everybody had Powerpuff girls sausage arms.

[masi]

The good thing though, I also didn’t notice there’s supposed to be tree there. So good job (?)

[iHateFridays]

Drawing lineart, it's so time consuming XD

[Shanny8]

That my body wants to do this "hurt" thing...why can't I just draw without having all these pains? Lol

[N1ghtm4r3]

oh crowd scenes are the worst, the repitition for anything that has the same thing over and over like city scapes,forests,or so on just annoy me , but if the story calls for it you gotta do it

[migxmeg]

Keeping loads of (very organized) layers is extremely helpful to me and I manage to be even slower without them - different methods for different people :). Using folders, color-coding, descriptive labels and auto-actions helps a lot.

My biggest pet peeve is backgrounds and especially background characters. I'm constantly wondering if I got away with the shortcuts I took, trying to remind myself that people only look at the panel for less than a second while I'm staring at it for hours. But still I feel so bad about copy-pasting the same npcs.

[masi]

@migxmeg I actually thinking of doing the same, copying npc but modify them a little to give them variety. I’m sorry but they’ll be of no importance of the story so definitely one of the things I should compromise

@Shanny8 I’m terribly sorry to hear this infamous plague that struck artist and I wish you a quick and full recovery!! Please take care of yourself!!

[goatbat]

i don't like how it looks when i sketch directly /over/ my thumbnail sketches (not proportionate, too sloppy) but when i use it as a pose reference for a secondary sketch, i feel like the end result is way less expressive :T i actually love thumbnailing, i find it fun- it's just frustrating trying to translate those drawn on paper thumbails into the correct page dimensions, since i often just have to overhaul the paneling composition i originally made in the secondary sketching process.

i also hate how many layers i get . . . i have a very simplified style and process and yet somehow, it's like i. blink and there's 40+ layers, all of which i forgot to name. smh

[system]

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