The most tedious part?

[akitsukino]

What is the most tedious part to you?
Most of us here are doing comics and writing stories because we find a serious sense of enjoyment and fulfillment out of making them. However, we should be honest; this is not always easy. There are parts that are kind of necessary to making a complete work that aren't particularly fun. For instance, one nice thing I've found out about drawing perspective is that all it really is finding out which lines go straight and which lines go diagonal to the perspective point. That being the case doesn't take away from the fact that IT TAKES FOREVER! I never feel more antsy when I'm working on pages than I do when I'm inking backgrounds (so many window sills and door frames!), but I try to put in the work because I think its a necessary part to making my comic look good. I'm also trying to get into to learning more about color theory, and even that is seeming a bit too complex and time consuming (or maybe its like perspective where it just seems difficult at first), but I want to get that down because I know I'll need it.

So, for me its perspective/backgrounds, and maybe colors that I find tedious, but what about you? What do you find to be a tedious part of your process, but still find necessary to complete? Is it the inking, the coloring? Maybe its the planning before you get to draw? Proofreading? Or maybe its something outside of the creating like marketing and promoting your work? I'd like to hear from everyone whether you write, draw, or do both.

Let me know below!

[juyunseen]

Inking is the most tedious for me by far. I love writing and sketching panels and laying out pages, but when I get to the inking I hit a brick wall and it takes so so so long.

[XzynderVexymous]

Drawing the same character over and over again haha. It’s hard to get different prospectives of the character.

[Ringarune]

I think backgrounds can also get tedious for me. I guess it's just a feeling that it isn't directly impacting the story as much as drawing characters is, but at the same time I try to remind myself that it's necessary to make the world feel real. I also really dislike drawing crowd scenes (because it's REALLY tedious) and flashbacks (hard to explain why, I guess because I like to continue telling the story in present time?)

[JenniferBourne]

Blocking and perspective is my biggest headache. Especially when it's a busy location with a lot of things. Sometimes I'll discover that the correct perspective on an object causes problems (tangents, distracting or confusing shapes, etc..) I'll need to play with object size, placement and the "camera" angle to get things to work.
It does get easier with practice.
Inking (even digital inking) and hatching take time, but unlike blocking, I can get them done while listening to music or podcasts, so I don't mind.

[Kura]

chapter layout / story boarding is very tedious for me.

It's not difficult, just time consuming and because it's all stick figures, notes and pre-written script, so there's very little creative excitement in it.It also doesn't help that I need to finish a complete chapter, so around 55 pages (or 275 panels if I average those to 5 panels per page) of that boring process that needs to be finished before I can get to actually drawing.

[theladiesi]

Line art seems to take the longest. The initial sketching and page layouts are run but then going over everything seems to take forever.

[AmysGames]

Backgrounds, 100%. Especially when it's a really busy background like a classroom or a library, haha.

On that note, I agree with the perspective thing, drawing backgrounds in perspective is awful

[youcannotread]

Drawing on the wrong layer and then trying to correct it to keep fluid organization

[punkarsenic]

hmm... probably colour? i love adding the finishes and figuring out new palettes, but once i have a palette sorted, its just outline and fill, outline and fill, and in that time im seeing my pages again and again and i start to worry that theyre boring or confusing. snot fun.

[YangKoete]

Personally, I'm just impatient with how inking takes SO long.

But the thing that's most tedious? Getting better. I just...Kind of put things off and I'm trying to stop that.

[feardeer]

Absolutely line art. Thumbnails are fun, sketching is usually fun, inking is fun (different from lineart in my process), colors are relaxing... but lineart is just a pain. It's especially grating since my cats stole my wacom pen and I can't find it, and I'm stuck using this little lenovo pen, which started bugging out a while back so I get jerky lines more often than not. This means I have to be even more methodical and slow in order to get decent results. Also, lots of ctrl+z.

I think this answer changes for me every so often. I remember finding flats really tedious just year or so ago. Now I enjoy that part.

[Tycade]

Shading. Shading is the most annoying part of the creation process and I hate it. It's so boring and you can TOTALLY tell in certain pages where I lose interest because the shading is so boring to me!

[dawgofdawgness]

Bleaargh the backgrounds definitely.
I enjoy drawing characters because I actually have the freedom to make them do what they want, what emotion they have, what they're saying..'
But with BACKGROUNDS, eugh.
I have very little experience with drawing/painting backgrounds and that's mainly because I avoid it a lot of times.

Drawing with perspective is easy enough, but it's just the matter of finding out which angle is the most dynamic, the most interesting... And making sure it's complex enough but not too distracting... sigh!

[beta1042]

Practically everything but the sketching part and the story creation.

All the cleanup and adding all the details and colors takes me forever. Oh and I'm really terrible at backgrounds and perspective, so I just avoid them a lot of times, but if I didn't that would definitely be up there as most tedious. I have this grand plan to one day start incorporating backgrounds after I figure out how to draw all my characters with more consistency. Before I started this comic I was never someone who drew the same thing over and over, so that has been taking priority at the moment, and it does get tedious too.

[Pandastrophic]

Adding the text and making last minute changes to my buffer episodes. I usually finish episodes early for my buffer but I can change my mind a lot about things and I would sometimes add more panels, change the dialogue, etc until the upload day. Like making it better is good but it gets really tiring and tedious when I'm constantly changing stuff and especially when I decide to change something on the day I'm supposed to upload the episode...

Aside from that I don't find anything tedious in the drawing part and it's mainly because any part I felt was boring I took out of the process lol. Like I hated linearting so I just use the sketchlines and doing flats was boring so I just paint almost everything in one layer.

[mon_quu]

For me it's the colouring process, sometimes the inking. Worst of all when there's backgrounds to do because I'm very weak at them 8(

[Rhombik]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned this yet because it's such a pain for me but speech bubbles. I alwats mis-calculate how much space I'll need on at least one panel.

[BraniAndNess]

When I was deciding the art style for the comic I purposefully decided to make the backgrounds lineart looser, sketchier, so I wouldn't lose my mind over them It's a life saver! On the other hand though, scenes with many many characters in them get really tedious for me... It takes forever and at least one in the bunch ends up looking like a moron, usually!

[spadesart]

flat colors. god i hate flat coloring.