Things you love to write and hate to draw but you do it to yourself every time

[Mallory]

Detailed backgrounds of cityscapes. Me no good at cityscapes. Just can't wrap my mind around them. Bonus points for writing in a SCIFI cityscape. It's like hang on, I can't even draw a NORMAL cityscape, how tf am I gonna now transform it into the future?? In general I'm not super great with inorganic objects (except cars. I like cars so I learned to draw them) so drawing sci-fi is ehhh difficult and I'm much better suited to old-timey fantasy.

Guess how many old-timey fantasy stories I have? Yeah, that's right. 0.

What I do have is 5 sci-fi stories (one of which I'm currently drawing) and 1 urban fantasy with a slight steampunk twist set in the 90's. So... yeah.... modern, urban cityscapes...

[AmandaJ-art]

Any background honestly. I have many scenes with lockers in them and those suckers are a pain to draw.

[darthmongoose]

Towns and cities. Why don't I just have all my comics be about people travelling the wilderness and living in tents? It'd be so much easier than having to build 3D sets or find reference for convincing buildings.
I am also on team "UGH, CARS..." and for some reason had the latest scene in my comic be one where the characters are hidden behind one. Aaaaaaaagh

[artemficta]

Any and everything, lmao! Drawing is hard

[DasIstWunderblyat]

This is exactly why I make a novel

[gmaximin]

Animals!! They’re impossible to draw, movements, posture, fur... a nightmare. And yet, I just made a 12 pages layout for a new short projects, centered around... ... ... ... a dog!

(But I love drawing background though... looks like I’m in minority here)

[DaphnePanda]

Anything mechanical. There's a reason why I stick to mid/high fantasy. But then I turn around and have a huge pile of STEAMPUNK themed story ideas and think to myself "wouldn't one of these be fun to draw?" I even drew splashart for one of them

[disqette]

Group shots, people mid-sitting down/standing up, and profile views while a character is talking ;_;

[migxmeg]

Ugh, yes. Talking (or smiling AAAAAAH) in profile kills me every time. But sometimes it just needs to be done.

[Rhonder]

Magic is what my mind instantly went to while reading this topic lol. I love fantasy settings and magic heavy combat systems... but I'm just not very good at rendering magical effects just yet I'm on easy mode right now, drawing a D&D comic where our party pretty much only has fire so I can at least just practice that for a bit. Before I dive into another fully original setting though I need to seriously sit down and workshop my rendering techniques.

[CosmicLeon]

I love to write fantastical cities but its death do draw. XD THE COBELSTONE WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME! And because I am a sucker for pain, i also have to included symbolism everywhere which can be a bit tiresome to remember which thing had what motif.

[But_a_Jape]

For some reason, I keep coming up with scenes where an archer is aiming a bow about 45 degrees away from the camera, which is a pose I could never really get my head around. An archer aiming directly at the camera I can do or if they're shooting parallel to the camera it's pretty easy for me, even pointing away with their back to the camera I think I can manage, but the angles in between always make me trip up on how to draw the arms, the perspective of the bow, and how the arrow is aimed. It's been hard to find references too, because all the pictures of archers I can find don't have the angle quite where I want it to be.

Slightly related, I keep coming up with funny ideas for the game Fire Emblem: Three Houses (both of my comics about it have included archers posed at the aforementioned angle) and I've learned I really hate drawing the characters' clothing. There are just so many details and ridiculous baubles on their clothes and I spend way too much time trying to be faithful to their designs for what amounts to a dumb joke.

[skicoak]

If I HATE to draw it, the writer will always WRITE it...even if I am ALSO the writer.

[MrTwennysebben]

Oh lord, I still want to draw my steampunk comic but I just know I can't make the ideas in my head look good. So many pipes and gears...

[lynestjules]

Group shots or panels with lots of background people. It always looks good in my head, but I really hate drawing that. Oh! And any kind of architecture. I'm not good at it, takes too long to draw, but I won't stop doing it. Because I like to challenge myself in my artwork.

[DaphnePanda]

I know! Even with brushes and assets, there's no saving how awful I can be at transferring my imagination onto paper

[indagold]

Dialogue and scenes that require contemplation. It's easy to write it out but a pain to draw because it gets so boring compared to action scenes or environment scenes.

[ButterflyEmpress]

Dialogue heavy scenes: it's gets monotonous when it lasts more than 3 pages and you don't want to get too crazy with the camera angles either(depending on context)

Fight scenes/using powers: had no idea how many of them I wrote until I went to illustrate them. I never thought of my comic as action.

Settings with crowds: I wrote a story that takes place in college and remembered that they tend to have students and teachers wandering around. My next comic is just gonna take place in an empty desert lol

[rajillustration]

@gmaximin yeah I'm the opposite--I love drawing animals so much, and doing it uses this wonderful part of my brain and I just zone out and focus on their cute details, but instead it's all these humans I have to draw over and over again.

[gmaximin]

Textures does that to me... I can spend hours on textures... but my animals always look alien, it’s dramatic.