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KelheorRegular
Oct '21

We all know many artists will say "I hate drawing backgrounds" if you ask them what they hate to draw :sip:

But what's something not that obvious? Maybe something you don't have to draw/write often, but remember you hate it when you suddenly have to do it? Maybe it's drawing neon light? Or writing intimate scenes?

As for me, I hate drawing cat ears :joy: They never seem to sit on the head properly and always look wrong in the end. I always forget about it since I don't draw animals (or...neko girls) frequently, but when the time comes...

The post is sponsored by Maple who judges me.

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BLTX
Oct '21

Hearts, and (I don't even like thw word) Belly buttons. I RARELY draw the heart shape, and NEVER draw the other thing.

(I call them "stomach buttons" by the way, cause it's just easier on my ears.) Not that I have a hard saying "belly," but putting them together makes it a VERY uncomfortable word.

OH! And Lips.

Teira
Oct '21

I'm not big on drawing male genitalia. It feels so awkward when I try to lol

BLTX
Oct '21

I feel like alot of people SHOULD have trouble with that. I am a part of those people.

Random_Guy
Oct '21

I f#cking despise writing traveling scenes, I typically cut out the traveling scenes for pacing, and also because there’s not much to say.
But sometimes you really need a traveling scene to exposit some info or bridge a gap, and I struggle so hard with making the travel at all interesting or different from if they were just standing around talking. I work in a purely word-based medium where conveying motion is a lot harder than if I had visuals, and that makes traveling very hard to make distinct.

migxmeg
Oct '21

Original alien/monster designs. Don't even know where to start - maybe this could be cured by practice but I'd rather just admire others who are skilled with it.

Legendofgenii
Oct '21

Weapons (melee).

Not so much when they are being used, but when they are in scabbards etc. on a characters belt or back. :expressionless:

It’s the perspective I struggle with maybe?

I’m getting better at it with practise though. :sweat_02:

Kann
Oct '21

Stuff like horse hoofs or hoofs in general. xD

I could mention feet and shoes, but I hardly even know people who DON"T struggle with that, so that's kinda obvious. xD

PapaDomAdvanced Gorilla
Oct '21

Skeletons or bones.

They always come out so...blocky. Like, a bone shouldn't look like a rectangular.
Or when I try to draw a skull head, it looks too cartoony... :see_no_evil:

incognito-burrito
Oct '21

The joints (like elbows and knees) and the areas where you can see muscle tone like on your biceps and forearms (that little line thingy that some people have on their wrists)--it's so subtle but it can either make or break the believability of the anatomy.

shapeshiftingmel
Oct '21

Somehow I have a really hard time writing kissing scenes, more intimate scenes are totally fine though which I don't quite understand myself skjfnskfj

OH and I suck at drawing ears, they always end up looking weird

Scarlet_Cryptid
Oct '21

I hate coloring grey things. There's just something about predominantly grey shapes (concrete, grey clothing, some rocks, etc) that makes me want to die of boredom. It is my absolute least favorite color to deal with, and one of the reasons I hate cityscapes.

DesiredUsernameTaken
Oct '21

Rain. It never looks convincing to me.

Shiny things! Never looks convincing to me. Could be armor, gold, etc.

I do this odd thing where because I know the process I took to get to the results, I think none of it is convincing. Because I know it's just a bunch of lines or smudging or blending. And while that is true for literally anything that is drawn, my brain only seems to apply it to the stuff above. :sweat_smile:

TedGravesArt
Oct '21

Feet. I'm terrible with feet. I don't really enjoy drawing monsters either, but I have to get better at that.
I used to hate drawing guns, but having drawn so many for an action comic, now I kind of enjoy doing them. Same with backgrounds.
A couple not obvious things I LOVE drawing: natural environments. Forests, deserts, etc. You get so much freedom with environments like that, and I can just sit down and paint and not have to think about what a machine is supposed to do and how it works, or how often I'm using the same components in a complicated cityscape.
I love drawing destruction too! Shattering glass or rubble or splintering wood, anything where I can just get lost in the physics and motion of a scene in a freeform way is so gratifying. And the final product is so exciting!

TheDoublekey
Oct '21

Whenever I draw a female character, I sometimes have a hard time drawing breasts. If not done correctly,
they end up looking like a male chest!

Kura
Oct '21

For Drawing.

Bikes.

Cars and vehicles they're not that hard, and I can draw them fine, they're just not interesting and I hate it the whole time. Even more than that The INSIDE OF A VEHICAL I cannot stand having to draw the inside of a vehicle Weirdly though, boats and airplanes I don't hate drawing

Cityscapes Much too depending on rulers, I get bored easily I just don't have the attention span for it.

The inside of a house more than once The first time is fine, no issues, kinda cool to set everything up and decide were things are going, but because it's a comic... I will have to draw the background more than once... and it's tedious and annoying to do again and again even when it was enjoyable the first time.

For writing

Character descriptions of my female characters, now I don't hate writing descriptions, nor my female characters, I'd do their descriptions the same way I would my male characters which leads to me getting really weird comments that are left in all seriousness such as "I could not picture this character in my head at all because you didn't give me any idea on what the size of her boobs where. You need to be more detailed when describing your characters." So it's just annoying that I'm getting it wrong to the point readers are unable to picture the character at all because I neglected to add this detail. Same with smell "You need to give female characters a certain scent to identify them. Female's almost always have scents to them and so far ALL of your female characters are lacking in that." It's just... a lot of extra writing rules that apply only to female characters that make not a lot of sense. Generally, I guess I don't hate writing it, but I hate the responses I keep getting because of it.

Narrative dialogue during conversations Generally I hate reading this too. I usually gloss over it quickly to find the name of the character talking and then jump right to the dialog. It's just boring and tends to really slow down the line delivery for me when reading, so writing it is equally boring. This is of course different if characters are doing something important, but a lot of the time when reading it it just fills like filling, cause the actions the characters are doing don't matter to the conversation or character. It's just something for the characters to do so it doesn't seem like they're JUST standing around and talking, which honestly I would prefer in a novel. So I'm often worried that I'm going to bored my readers in the same way this bores me when reading.