What are some pet peeves you have with your medium of choice?

[bronte448]

My medium of choice is Microsoft (?) Paint, and I just discovered I forgot to turn off the crayon fill when drawing a new panel. Now I have to deal with erratic fills as I complete this panel. If you use Paint, you might know what I'm talking about.
What I'll have to deal with now (showing detail):

What are some annoyances you have to deal with that come with your chosen medium? I don't know why I'm doing this except it might help us feel better about our peeves.

[igneriss]

I'm drawing using ink fineliners and black markers
- where's ctrl+z when I need it;
- they always run out of ink when you can't buy more (for me it's always when I'm on vacation or when I'm too busy with other stuff);
- my scanner eats a lot of details that I'd rather have on the page, like freckles, mouths or noses of my characters, and I have to draw them again digitally;

[Scarlet_Cryptid]

Heh. Ahem. Okay. Here we go. cracks knuckles

I'm a traditional media artist and I work with a combination of pencils (3H and HB), Micron fineliners in varying sizes, and a mixture of Prismacolor and Copic markers. Among the annoyances this method generates are:

• Pencil lead snapping

• Grooves/shadows left on the paper from erasing and redrawing something over and over again

• Eraser. Shavings. EVERYWHERE.

• Not being able to wear nail polish because of the risk of brushing the paper just the wrong way and leaving a streak of color behind.

• The way Microns get scratchy and hard to work with when they start to run out of ink

• Waiting for the ink to dry before I can color

• Not waiting long enough for the ink to dry and smudging my line art

• Having to cut a new sheet of my paper down to page size every few weeks. By hand.

• Paper cuts.

• Having color gaps in my marker selection ("This blue isn't QUITE green enough, but THAT one is TOO green!" etc.)

• Running a Prismacolor marker dry and needing to go buy a new one.

• Running a Copic marker dry and needing to buy a refill

• Underfilling a Copic marker and feeling like your marker is still dry

• OVERfilling a Copic marker and dealing with a leaky marker

• Having to replace marker nibs when they get old

• Never quite having dark enough colors (My darkest green is nowhere near as dark as my darkest black, or even my darkest grey, for example)

• Not being able to use my very light colors because I know they won't scan.

• The crimes my scanner wreaks on my beautiful colors

• Having to plan my colors out 12 steps in advance because markers are transparent, so you can't just put a lighter color on top of a darker color -- you have to work around lighter colors

• Having ONE CHANCE to get something right, because it's ink

• It's all one layer, and there is no undo button

• Marker fumes

• Having to re-ink my line art after I color, to darken them and clean up edges

• Never quite having the bright, vibrant, saturated colors that digital art can achieve

• Things that digital artists take for granted, like the ability to do smooth, diffuse gradients or smoky, glowy effects are REALLY difficult, or outright impossible, with markers.

• This stuff is EXPENSIVE, yo!

You'd think after all that, I'd consider going digital, but A) I know digital isn't without its own annoyances, and B) I actually really like working with my markers. And I think it's worth it to hear people say things like "Oh my god, that's MARKER?" when I've done a particularly good job.

[bronte448]

Wow, that is a huge list of peeves. I was not expecting that. Good work pushing through!

[N1ghtm4r3]

messy refils, some pens don't last, weird ink color inconsistancies ,the paper tearing ,low toner for my printer and so on

[LadyN]

I like drawing with pen (not surprisingly.) but not like, the pens I’m supposed to. I get the cheap ones that are supposed to be used for writing.

I use them for writing, but mainly for drawing. I just find I kill through them really easily. Even good quality writing pens I’ve gotten lasted me about 2 weeks.

[bronte448]

...I felt that. I felt that right here.

[NickRowler]

The thing that bugs me about digital art is that I have to sit at my desk to do it. With sketchbooks I can draw anywhere, take it to the park/beach. I can even draw in bed or on the floor. I really hate sitting at a desk for long hours and I wish I could find a way to draw digitally while lying down.

[LadyN]

Depending on what computer and what tablet you’re using, it’s pretty possible to draw on the bed. I used to use a laptop for drawing for about 2 months and it was very nice for bed work. It also depends on the amount of cords you need. One outlet can work nicely if you’re using a laptop and the tablet. If you have anything else or something obstructing the way of the nearest outlet, then I could see some difficulties.

[TheLemmaLlama]

My only problem with digital art is when you forget to back up your work and lose it
f o r e v e r

[angie_draws_things]

I hand draw my comics on paper and ink them with Microns, then scan it into Photoshop.
My biggest pet peeve with my process is in Photoshop, where one single empty pixel on each line is what WILL cause the paint bucket to fill EVERYTHING. I then have to undo and hunt down the wayward pixel.

At this point, I feel like Photoshop would have a setting where one could designate a "pixel gap," that would permit Photoshop to understand that I am trying to fill in one space, not the whole panel.

[MeltingCORE]

With CSP I have to remember that everyone isn't going to see each detail on a 3000 x 3000 canvas. That's more a me thing though and why I've been working on being looser with my brushstrokes. With ink art, I have to be careful with my brush so ink doesn't randomly go everywhere. Lightly, lightly... very lightly

[giseigocrafts]

I needlefelt models with wool and then take photos of them to make my comics and one of the main differences from actually drawing art is the fact that it's alot harder for me to change the expressions of my characters faces! Like my main character just reacts with the emotion to absolutely everything! Want to show that the character is happy? Scared? Sad? Nope! Only ! In a way though, it's kinda cute!

[igneriss]

Oh my this is so cute

[smokesalty]

When Clip Studio Paint crashes on me before I can save

(I used to have auto-save on but that made it crash more tbh so I do it manually very often just in case)

[DualDragons]

I second this because well I do this for my comic too. It also requires more work for me to digitally colour than if I were to do digital lineart

[bronte448]

I feel ya! That happens to me all the time.

[allenT]

I am not happy about my cheap local alchoholic markers for my occational color sketches. The inks started to spread out the edges and desaturated after a few months and it's horrible. Maybe Copic markers don't have the issues. (won't buy it too expensive)

Now I tested non-alcoholic Japanese markers and started to like it. They don't blend much but it'll fulfill my usages.

[bronte448]

Whenever my mouse suddenly decides to be lazy. It is so hard to draw with a mouse, let alone an unresponsive mouse!

[liaroger]

Most of my struggles with digital art are self inflicted tbh.

• Drawing on the wrong layer.
• I bump my tablet and rotate it a little too much, there goes all my pen control.
• Drawing on the wrong damn layer.
• I love Krita but man, the text tool needs some work.
• Drawing on the wrong fucking layer.
• Losing my pen control when I don't draw for a while. What is a smooth line. What are lines. Fuck lineart.
• The only real pet peeve I have with Krita is that ctr z will often undo several quick brush strokes at once which can be a little annoying.
• DRAWING. ON THE. WRONG. LAYER.