The most difficult things to learn to draw

[DokiDokiTsuna]

Since the holiday blahs are apparently over (^^) and I have a lot of free time now, I'd like to start a new topic series...but first I need to do a little research. What do you think are the most difficult things to learn to draw?

I'll start the ball rolling:

1. Hands (even though I'm always like "oh I love drawing hands it's so fun~" I have to admit it's a constant challenge and a difficult skill to master; people are totally justified in complaining about them all the time)

2. Hair (I love hair even more than hands, but it's also a very complicated skill...and what's worse is that people don't realize that and end up neglecting it, and it shows)

3. Clothes (people just don't teach them very well...most of the tutorials I've seen range from realism to hyper-realism, as if (a) other artists don't also need to learn to draw clothes, and/or (b) fundamentals don't matter. I'm looking forward to getting into this topic.)

4. Water ( * shakes fists, screams into the sky* WAAAAAAAAAATEEEEEERRRR DX)

5. Boobs (they're not just for ecchi/NSFW artists...I've seen a lot of weird guesswork from amateurs about how they work and fit into clothes, and it's clear that more people need to teach this ^^; )

6. Profiles (I've seen a lot of artists, even pros, that seem to struggle with this, and I have never seen even ONE tutorial on drawing faces in profile. This is a problem, folks!)

7. Trees (the only tutorials I've seen for drawing trees are ways to use brushes to cheese through drawing all the leaves...so apparently if you don't paint, you're SOL? Not for long)

8. Glass/Metal (reflective surfaces are always a very difficult topic, no matter the medium)

9. Feet (Almost forgot about hands' evil twin~. I think feet are actually easier to learn than hands though, since they have a much smaller range of motion)

10. Cars (we're gonna be learning this one together, 'cause it's been years since I've even attempted to draw a car XD )

[AHaplessFool]

For me, I can do a hand pretty fast but legs????????? No. Why do humans even have legs when they're so evil. Hhghgghhhhhhhghhhh aaaa aaaa aa a a a

[carloswebcomic]

Eyes - I find eyes so difficult. I can't get them quite right.
Proportions - I've developed this almost mathematical method to do proportions, because if I just try to draw, I'll get it all wrong.
Feet - No surprise here.
Cars - I hate them.
Glasses - Why are they so hard?! Really!

[arbiterswake]

Is coloring included in this? If so.. oh boy.

Here's my list of ones I also struggle with.

1) Hair. I do not have the skill or finesse to draw beautiful elegant locks of hair at this time so I understand this one completely. But yeah, I'd say it's pretty difficult to nail good looking hair.

2) Clothing. As long as it's covering their no-no squares, I guess it's a pass? Kidding. Sometimes people over-do the clothing though to a point where it makes no sense. Like how many belts does this character need to signify their badassery?

3) Horses. They're just weirdly complex sometimes..And people have drawn some freakishly looking horses.

4) Buildings (Exterior). Just. So. Tedious. I get it but sometimes it looks like people just gave up, especially on the perspective.

5) Dynamic poses. I feel like a lot of people struggle with this one, just making characters not look as stiff or drawing them from different perspectives, etc.

Other ones that I feel pretty comfortable with now:

6) Anatomy. This can be stylistic but some anatomy can get really goofy looking.

7) Hands. A lot of people try to hide these. Don't blame them. Hands are pretty intricate.

8) Feet. A lot of people ALSO try to hide these. But feet are gross so it's ok.

9) Expressions. Some characters just seem to have no emotion some times.

10) Eyes. The good ol' "I'll draw one perfect eye and cover the other one with hair " trick happens a lot.

I feel like most of these can be remedied by doing studies however, like just spending 30 mins- 1 hour a day drawing what you're struggling with. I did this with hands for months until I became happy with how mine looked. Gesture drawings have also been helping me with dynamic poses.

[gmaximin]

To add to the list:
- Dogs, or animals in general... as annoying as human + fur + unusual parts moving in odd directions (tails, horns...)
- Movement... it’s abstract in nature, and hard to depict
- Feelings. Not obvious facial expression, but nuanced emotions through background alterations or slight body language.

[Black_Conscious]

Gosh,
Welp to start off

*hands

Feet

Certain type of hair/ hairstyle

and probably not having characters that aren't stiff?

[rajillustration]

cars
planes
boats
BICYCLES
font (like hand painting a font for a title or something like that--oh man. It's the worst because we're hard-wired to read and the slightest bit off in the arc of any letter will send you)
detailed cityscapes

[ahogemon]

This may be off the topic, but it's related I guess, what I'm struggling with the drawing fantasy comic is when drawing or designing a weird-looking fantasy kind of fashion.

[Teira]

Definitely hands and feet.

[Puck]

Perspective
Basic perspective is easy but to make perspective work in comics is really hard for me.
And perspective is pretty much the basic thing for everything you want to draw and the
solution to most things people struggle with. Can´t draw hair? Draw simple forms in
perspective first. Can´t draw hands? Simple forms in perspective is the answer.
If you don´t understand it and let it become second nature then you will struggle with
everything

Coloring is hard for me but the only reason for that is that I´m not doing it enough.
Proportions were hard but I trained that and got better.
Anatomy, muscles etc is just a question how much you train it, it´s hard for me
but I know what I have to do to get better at it.
Everything can be trained and learned, it is a lot when you want to learn how
to draw, the list is endless and that makes it hard sometimes

[ble]

I never understood the hands being difficult to draw, as is literally the only part of your body you can see and draw as a reference (if you have 2 functional hands). Now, feet that's hard.

But for me, is the straight lines things that are way harder. Drawing humans is easier compared to draw the perspective of the street, buildings, cars, or other man-made structures.

[AmandaJ-art]

Gosh, there's a lot.
-Animal back legs
-hands
-feet
-teeth
-cars
-buildings
-leaves on trees
-water
-boobs
-perspective
-long hair

[SaxofonSislak]

Almost everything! hahaha
I'm a total newbie drawing, everything seems like a worlds to me! However, hands from all (step by step) are getting easier with the time.

[Gleamiarts]

for me it's:
* hands
* pupils facing the same direction
* eyes
* buildings
* perspective

I struggle drawing those well, even with reference :\

[ogjuic]

boobs and cars are the things i struggle most with. still can't understand why when iv been drawing them non stop for about a month now and my usual time frame for picking up learning how to draw something is a week at max two.

[jimena]

PERSPECTIVE...
and cars yes, also motorcycles and bikes are such a pain
guns and mecanic stuff that are too detailed and kind of difficult o.o

[R.n.P]

Hands and sexy female poses

[Phantomlight]

Here's a theory: I am guessing mermaids were first imagined because an artist was fed up or frustrated with drawing feet so they said "To hell with that! This person will now have a fish tail." xD

[AHaplessFool]

Honestly, I should've defo just started a mermaid comic but here I am, having to draw both legs and feet. Heck.

[Darth_Biomech]

Faces. the whole thing. I think I can draw even feet (which for me are almost incomprehensible, and my footwear always ends up looking like uggies or house flippers), but everybody comments on how ugly my faces are (plus I can see that myself). But even using 3d dummies doesn't help me to draw them better.