What do you love and hate the most when Comic-ing?

[Aspie_Gamer]

I've thought about it. In fact, I've been trying to get one going while also providing a consistent schedule of updates per week. (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.) The biggest said buffers been so far is like 2-3 pages ahead of schedule. Right now, I'm sketching this weeks updates.

[thomassayle]

i hate everything till i am done, then i love that i made something i can read/enjoy?

[jonno]

I would have to say that my favorite parts currently (it's bound to change a million times, i know it) is the shading, especially with my current shading style (it's like a puzzle), and recreating things i see in real life to my cartoony format. for instance, on my first page of AM (which i will be finishing up today and uploading, hype), Jay has this painting hanging up in his room, comically angled at exactly 7 degrees. i have the same one hanging in my room, and looking to my left and then back at my computer screen and seeing it look so stylized makes me really happy.

For things i hate, definitely fixing stupid mistakes that could have been easily avoided.

[Oritasho]

When you post something after working on it for hours nonstop, you go back and look after a day and notice just how many mistakes you made and then have to fix them all over again >.<

[shazzbaa]

I am one of those weird people who loves inking! Expressions are my probably my favourite thing to draw. :>

I hate anything mechanical. Cars, motorcycles, whatever. Frankly, any transportation, I would rather just not draw. xD /PUTS ALL MY STORIES IN PSEUDOMEDIEVAL SETTINGS

[foxowl]

I will like the sketching bit, where you get to experiment with expressions and how the scene will look. I never find it fun when it just doesn't look right. That and inking, but again, because it never looks right ahahaha

[Wolven_Sister]

I LOVE sketching my pages and getting all the characters in their correct expressions, gestures, actions--all of the drawing part I absolutely love!!

What I hate is everything else. The coloring,shading,text, effects, backgrounds---all of it takes hours to complete and by the time I'm finished I'm wiped out. During it, I don't mind so much, but it's getting up to that point and beforehand I'm just dreading... But I feel so satisfied by the end of it and I love creating comics so I just put up with it anyway haha! I just wish I could wiggle my fingers and it magically be done in a few seconds lol!

[Zpreader]

I love penciling and inking, especially physically. After drawing for so many years, my hands start to feel weird if I don't draw for a day or two.

As for what I hate, scanning and editing is definitely up there. Scanning is just a pain and editing is a big hassle. If I want to keep my inks I have to get rid of all the white space in the image, but changing the image to monotone makes it likely that any cross hatching gets muddled.

[Shanny8]

You have to make the characters fun & interesting- through the characterization & the writing.

[Shanny8]

I LOVE lettering...especially when I;ve finished a page and it looks the way I want it to look.

[BlackMantaStudios]

Backgrounds are tedious. Good thing I'm running a comedy strip so I can use that as an excuse to not draw any. Also, feet are something I'm still working on. Also frills. Also complicated perspective. Also poses more complex than standing. Sometimes, I have difficulty drawing hands and fingers.

So yeah, I pretty much suck at art. I just tell people my bad art's part of the comic's "comedy" (the same way a programmer just lets a bug slide and then calls it a "feature").

BUT I can (or think I can) draw pretty eyes, and that's why they're my favorite part when I draw.

[Shanny8]

I've now gotten to the point where I dont fully render my pages(in pencil)...all the rest of the stuff- inking, coloring, lettering: I LOVE it. Especially when it all turns out the way I envisioned it.

With that said, I hate the set up. Once I get goin, and the flow is good then I'm good; I just hate that it takes me a while to get in the zone to want to draw nowdays...it's not automatic like it used to be.

[UrMom]

Well of course, that's a given. xD My characters aren't fun and interesting because I make them with too many flaws, too pessimistic, there's not a whole lot for readers to root for. You could say I should just change it, but it's not so simple since it's more of a matter of changing my own outlook, being a self-pessimistic person who focuses and relates better to flaws than virtues; this will take some time and effort to improve. Currently, "fun" and "interesting" are difficult things to grasp.

Sorry if that doesn't make much sense, I guess I could have just said I'm unconsciously using my comics and characters to vent frustration (and no one likes whiny, negative people, so of course they don't want to see characters like that), lol.

[Shanny8]

No, it makes sense. Almost every story- be it comic or a novel has to a certain degree, the writer's personality woven into it.

Of course you could always change that with the characters, you know.

[Pandastrophic]

I love almost everything about making my comic since I did my best to takeout the stuff I hate working on (lineart) and stuck with sketchyer pencil lines instead. My favourite part is probably coloring, I feel like it takes the least amount of time for me because I'm so concentrated on it.

I do kinda dislike lettering it's just a bit boring and I take ages on it. Although it's been better since I switched to typing it out instead of handwriting it.

[AnnaLandin]

Absolutely hate:
Tiled roofs. Paved streets. But most of all - cover illustrations. I really, really hate to draw covers. Don't because the actual drawing is any different than drawing a regular page, but because coming up with a decent cover-design that a.) works, b.) looks nice and c.) doesn't completely spoil the plot is incredibly difficult for me. And I'm just about to have to do it again before chapter five starts. D:

I used to be one of those people who disliked drawing environments and crowd-scenes, but I've done it so much now that I'm actually getting to the point of enjoying it. It's not something I go "Oh boy oh boy, I get to draw CROWDS! " about, but it's no longer the huge, imposing obstacle it used to be.

Tip for crowd-scene issues - layer the crowd. Put your characters in the middle of it, and then draw some characters close up in the foreground, between your characters and the "camera", and then people behind your characters, and on the same visual plane as them, etc. Overlap them, to give the readers a sense that the characters are in the crowd, not in front of it. Also - it helps you block out inconvenient bodyparts you don't feel like drawing. XD

Example (with very grumpy cartoony faces!):

Love:
I love most of the comics-process, from initial brainstorming of ideas through thumbnails, sketching and inking and colouring. But I think my favourite steps are a.) inking characters and b.) colouring skin.

[R.n.P]

Nah I haven't seen anything to annoy me when drawing but the thing i love the most in my comic is the action scenes cuz I try to make cool angles like my inspiration Kubo Tite's manga Bleach. But I still have a long way before reaching his level.

[thomasfallaeriksen]

Drawing in general is very fun. Both pencilling and inking. Constructing the panels are also fun. And stumbling over ideas for storylines.
The most boring part is coloring. Before I used to draw a whole chapter or story and then color it.
That often meant seemingly endless hours of coloring. I'm glad I don't do that anymore.
Another thing I really dislike is if I start inking on a new page that I just finished pencilling and I immediately mess up.

[joannekwan]

Favorite part: Getting a page done!
Least favorite part: Starting with a blank page.

[Mane]

Not like:
Adding text . Dialog, sound words , etc. Going over what I've written, wondering if I'm wording everything right , making the text fit into the speech balloon, choosing the right font .And the onomatopoeia.....I'd leave it out completely, but they are necessary sometimes, so I do add them but they almost never look right to me

Like: pretty much everything else. Coming up with the story, characters , design , actually drawing the page....