Whats your comic art annoyance?

[Chiper1811]

Drawing people is all I love so I definitely HATE drawing backgrounds, especially plants and buildings and perspective!

[Kayke]

I don't like drawing big crowd scenes... or rather I don't like COLORING them. It just takes so much time.

[whydocowsfall]

I love drawing people but absolutely hate drawing legs. Thankfully I have a character coming up whose legs are covered by a dress but pretty much everyone else is wearing a mini skirt! Why did I do this to myself?!

[PotooGryphon]

I also don't like drawing backgrounds or mechanical things. Thank goodness, my co-creator/husband likes drawing BGs. ^_^ Yay! I get to focus on what I love to draw and same for him.

[AnnaLandin]

Rooftiles and complicated architecture. So of course, I set my entire comic in a world in which rooftiles and complicated architecture are the reigning aesthetic.

It hurts every time I have to draw them, but on the positive side of things, I can feel myself getting better at it every time I do. Improvement through adversity!

[Chiper1811]

Hahaha I see what you mean. Btw, your cyclops is a cutie! And now I get what you mean by "mini skirt".

[mariusthered]

Why did I do this to myself?!

lol this is what i said when the reality of having four girls wearing the same school uniform in a school setting, arrgh!

Kaykedrawsthings. yer I'm with you there, I now have a thing called MoM that is for poser and is a crowd generator, before that most of my crowds were in silhouette.

Chiper1811 back ground can be fun or very annoying, I guess it depends on the amount of detail you need/ want . photo reference is the key I guess.

joannekwan cars can be hard but at least their are lots of reference to work with. I must admit they are not on my top things to draw list.

vincentprendick um... your gonna need more pencils

[Chiper1811]

I wish my husband can draw... so I can dump the background part on him, too.

[Chiper1811]

@aronthemason Yup. Photo referencing alllll....the way. I even referenced my own stuff at home for lack of better 3D objects.

[whydocowsfall]

Haha thanks! And I know, it sounds bizarre but that is literally what they're wearing. This was not purposeful. It just... happened. D:

[blastryoku]

The things that annoy me the most is background and perspective.

[Dranif]

Backgrounds (especially when there's bricks involved....ugh I hate drawing every single brick), and perspective.
Can't think of anything else at this moment.

[AnnaLandin]

(especially when there's bricks involved....ugh I hate drawing every single brick)

My comics-teacher in college used to tell us that we don't have to draw every single brick! You just have to draw a few, scattered over the surface, to imply that there are bricks there, and then your reader's mind will sort of fill in the blanks.

Here's an example of what I mean. It's a panel from a Donald Duck-comic, drawn by Don Rosa:

Notice how he's drawn some of the stone slabs in the fortress walls, but he's left gaps between the lines on some of the towers, in essence leaving some of those stones "incomplete"? Your brain is still filling in the gaps, imagining that the stones are there. Don Rosa didn't have to draw every single complete stone; he just had to draw enough lines and minor details to imply a stone-wall surface.

This isn't an easy trick to master, but it's worth trying, because if you can, it'll make drawing complex stuff SO much easier.

[Tanisha]

You can find brick pattern vectors on google and scale them to how you want to use them. I used it in my comic on the house on the first panel.

[mariusthered]

this is no longer a problem. with digital all you do is draw a few bricks on a layer then duplicate the layer and move the new layer , you do this as much as you need to , but I agree with Anna you don't have to draw every brick, in fact it can look too much sometimes.

[Tanisha]

My annoyance would have to be crowds/ background characters. My characters are in a school and I have to make them walk amongst other people or be in a classroom sometimes and I have no idea what hairstyles I would give to them and stuff it's so frustrating ;/

[mariusthered]

yes it never crossed my mind that you have to have background kids in a school until i drew the first frames in a classroom. ( not showing on here yet they show in season two) I kind of opted for my girls to be the group that's always stood out of the way. ( the trouble makers !) i will tell you that manga studio has pre made school girls in the program sadly they would not look right in mine or I would cheat.

[Tanisha]

Yeah I think I might start cheating too, just for the hairstyles at least. The school girls look like they can work into my style a little so it might be a good thing for me to do. I'm never prepared to draw any other character BUT my actual main characters. I have no idea how people do it in their comics xDD

[maripazvillar2004]

I'm on the Backgrounds Team too! I hate them and they hate me back. Since I'm making this comic (Miss Abbott and the doctor) just for fun I decided to ignore them: you'll only find sloppy trees and shabby doors (this is TRUE), and only when they're absolutely necessary! XD

Oh, and people dressed in a modern style. I mean... people living in the present. And cars and horses.

And bicycles.

[Aetherwing]

Crowds, certain environments, and I don't really like inking all that much either haha. Also this one character in my comic has an outfit that I hate coloring - because there's so many layers to it. I am so READY for when the characters get to change costumes.