Whats your comic art annoyance?

[Thesleepypencil]

With my current stories it is
1. Perspective
2. The background crowds.

To be honest i am not bad at perspective if i actually did it i would be good at it and I'm good at faking it I've been doing perspective drawings since i was 9. But i find it sooooo long and tedious and i don't like doing it.

The crowds thing drives me crazy. Because sometimes it becomes difficult to just create a mass amount of generic people. In one comic i have i have been creating an entire archive of student characters so i can just re-use people.

But right now I'm doing a sci-fi story with alot of aliens so for crowds i'm archiving all the different alien designs but i still have to vary them individually AND designing different races of Aliens is non stop. I mean when you design them it's fun but it's the continous designing that i don't look forward too.

I geuss sometimes i get bored of draeing one characters face over and over but at the same time i love it because if i wasn't drawing them in the comic I'd be drawing them in other art

[ErithEl]

When I was doing character designs for Burning Bright I didn't think about just how many characters have wings until I reached the part in the comic where the first winged character shows up and realized...well, crap, I can't draw wings! It's actually very difficult to try to find wing-pose references, too. I'm sure there's some kind of 3D modeling software I could use, but I haven't found that either.

I'm also really dreading some upcoming scenes that will have cityscapes and architecture.

[mariusthered]

I'm sure there's some kind of 3D modeling software I could use, but I haven't found that either.

Daz 3d and poser 10 have lots of things with wings you could pose to your hearts content

[ErithEl]

@aronthemason Thanks! I'll check those out.

[thomasfallaeriksen]

Big crowds.
And sometimes hatching.
But the number one thing is probably coloring. Especially when there is hatching involved.
It is temting to go back to only black and white, but that would just make me feel lazy.

[chjio]

A page filled with nothing but character's face and conversation. No bodily actions, no cool perspective, epic bg, crowds and stuffs. Just talking.

I find it very demotivating especially when it comes to the inking part.
Oh yea, creating dialogues... Makes me feel so unnatural all the damn time.

[mariusthered]

yes this is one of my big drags inking makes me so bored i often have lost the will to live by time it comes to shading hence i just want to finish the page.

[realSean_Murphy]

Pretty much anything too mechanical, or something I'm not sure works like the insides of a vehichle, or just basically anything that I just can't really see.

[dracoplato]

Crowd scenes are the worst!! XD

[BraveHeartTatsumaki]

My biggest issue are: drawing food (Like, my biggest masterpiece were two toasts!!)
Also the anatomy for a fight. And the part in which I have to try to not draw my characters too static in panels, but then I'm afraid I'm drawing them too "moving" like dramatic and such so then I just scream internally xD

[laneord]

For me would definitely be the coloring part. Choosing the right color and matching them, has always been my weak point.

[Elwetritsche]

Crowd scenes come to mind first, but I also have close to no experience with drawing dynamic scenes like fighting, jumping, perspective changes etc.

I remember when I drew my first piece of interior and it still haunts me ... but I've gotten better, thankfully.

I actually like drawing cars and other machines, as long as I find good reference for them.

[DoodleDamage]

My annoyance would probably be car interiors and overshots of cities. I'm forcing myself to draw them a lot so I don't get annoyed with it anymore xD

[chiharu_j]

Lol for me inking is definitely one of the best parts.

[chiharu_j]

Like so many others I used to hate drawing backgrounds because I was just never sure what to do with the perspective or details, it wasn't until I started doing backgrounds for visual novels that I realized how much I actually loved designing them and creating new worlds. I guess it's possible turning a hate into something you like

[listerart]

When I was coming up with my webcomic, MORGANNA OF THE BORGS, I decided I was putting everything I felt I needed more practice at, things that I felt I drew less than adequate. My female figure drawing needed help, so I made the main character a woman. Buildings sucked, so I made is set in Chicago. Sci-fi tech sucked so I made it a sci-fi comic, and so on. This way I was forced to draw those things over and over again.

http://tapastic.com/series/motb

[Dingbat1991]

Probably the inking phase which is by far the most tedious of designing a comic I'd say. All I'm really doing is following the lines I previously drew out.

[laneord]

I would hate my own comic so much at that point.. LOL

[listerart]

Yeah it gets to be a bit of a struggle here and there, but the payoff is I'm better than I was when I started.

[SkipperWing]

Hrm... I have a few from both sides of the creating table.

As a creator, my biggest annoyance is backgrounds, specifically cities. They have to be specific enough, with enough detail that you recognize where you are, but not so detailed that they take away from the characters engaging with each other. Its worse with cities because they require so much more detail in a "designed" way; fields don't need that much detail to convey that they are fields, underwater environments can be conveyed with just colors if you're skilled enough, and forests/jungles are so organic that the lines don't have to line up. Cities are different because they are angular by design, more often than not (can't usually get away with curvy loopy buildings), and everything must have detail on some level. So yeah, cities are not my favorite thing.

As a reader, I HATE when comics devolve into talking heads. Even worse when all that is depicted is a 3/4 view head, just standing flat, with arms at the side spouting off a wall of text. It gets worse when a creator thinks they're being clever by tilting the camera to mess with the composition, when the characters are still standing at attention as they talk to each other. Comics ARE A VISUAL MEDIUM. Sure, not every pose has to come out of Pixar/Looney Tunes, but a lot can be conveyed in even the slightest hunch, limp, slouch or crouch. Composition plays a big role in the subconscious analysis of the scene (even if that is just the camera hovering behind one character over another; now we know who we're supposed to empathize with!), and giving two characters equal space in a neutral perspective when the scene DOESN'T call for it just screams of laziness.

And for walls of text, I'll read an essay or a prose story if I wanted to read a wall of text! Flashbacks are annoying but they are preferable to having a character tell us things we then have to do the extra leg-work of imagining in our heads. Comics are a visual medium; if you have the opportunity to tell your story with visuals, PICK VISUALS EVERY TIME. SHOW, DON'T TELL.

But yeah, those are my major peeves, both of myself and others.