What's your least favourite part of drawing?

[JRHoch]

I love the finishing the best!

[ProfessorParsec]

What tabs did for browsers is what folders did for digital art programs. Now I've got a bajillion folders in folders with layers masked ontop of them. Different kind of mess, haha.

[ProfessorParsec]

Wow, mad props for the traditional inking. I have a friend who's still doing that, and I wonder what wizardry he does to make it all work. I think if you're in the camp of traditional inking, it's best to have someone else do the colouring because it's all hella time consuming (but worth it).

Congrats on the comic projects, I can't say I've ever finished one off myself, haha. I hope you can celebrate that a little before you move on to the next.

[CodeMonkeyArts]

Drawing hands and metal things always sucked for me. I am not really a fan of inorganic shapes that require precision and straight lines and hands...well hand are essentially one part of the human body but have the complexity of the ENTIRE human body (with fingers being different limbs and such).

However, that's not really my least favorite part.

My least favorite part is flats. I just...it's soooooooo boring. Inking can be tedious but at least I can experiment line thin and thick lines, adding crosshatching, etc. Flats is just really dull to me. Kinda like waiting at the airport for a flight. You're just there. Stuck. Waiting for the flight so you can actually FEEL like you're gonna get to your destination. I hate the flat process.

[ProfessorParsec]

I once went to a seminar that talked about the differences between a child and a savant like Kurt Cobain. The point was that there's a place we need find as creatives where we enjoy honing our craft like established artists do, but hold onto the joy we had as children where creating was a form of playing.

I wish I had taken notes, because it was excellent.

[DokiDokiTsuna]

My least favorite part is flats. I just...it's soooooooo boring. Inking can be tedious but at least I can experiment line thin and thick lines, adding crosshatching, etc. Flats is just really dull to me. Kinda like waiting at the airport for a flight. You're just there. Stuck. Waiting for the flight so you can actually FEEL like you're gonna get to your destination. I hate the flat process.

Oh wow, this. I kinda have a love-hate relationship with coloring for this exact reason.

I enjoy experimenting with shading and lighting; that's actually really fun for me. But before I can get to that point I have to slog through the unending point-and-click drudgery of doing FLATS...and the longer the comic, the more unbearable it becomes...

[CodeMonkeyArts]

EXACTLY! Shading is fun! Lighting is FUN!

Flats?

...Uuughhhhhhh

[Hodge]

Yeah, I remember back when I used to play instruments, I'd often research that sort of stuff (still do sometimes). Read books like "The Art of Learning" and "Mastery" and more on performance and trying to get into that focused state while under pressure, exercise, meditation, therapy, creativity, etc. Idk "creative play" just wasn't a thing for me as a child, so had to learn it the hard way lol.

[ProfessorParsec]

Have you seen those animation programs that colour in frames with AI? Maybe one day it'll be more intuitive for comic art.

[silverraven0]

Ooh, you're the opposite from me. I can't like shading as much as I'm doing anything else. XD

[Rhonder]

Yeahhh it's pretty crazy what difference a year will make. When I started just over a year ago I chose trad inking because I felt as though my digital inking was rather mediocre in comparison. But around the halfway-ish point I started gaining more confidence in my digital inking, and even did a short 10 page comic all digitally over the summer which felt pretty good, so now I'm finishing this one out traditionally just to stay consistent but mannnnn am I ready to make the swap LOL

And yess! I'll definitely be celebrating/taking a lengthy break afterwards haha. At 70 pages, this will be the only project of considerable length I've ever finished as well. Feels good... but I'm also very tired

[ryoko]

Drawing architecture because it takes me so long to do and backgrounds in general.

[ProfessorParsec]

Yeah, you can cheat landscapes, but buildings are a little more complicated. I guess specialized brushes could maybe help, but it's still a time consumer.

[IdiotWithPencil]

Panel compositions and Bubble locations XC, since I almost exclusively draw comics these have been the bane of my existence since day one, also having to make the perspective grid for all pieces and backgrounds are always such a chore, thank god for kritas one point perspective tool, I swear

[CatoCoyote]

I feel that. I keep changing the way I'm drawing so I can figure out the fastest way to go. Eventually, I'll find a style that's not time consuming and looks decent.

[simplykit]

well... when i run out of paper

im really picky about my paper... i know, im weird about it

[Luminosophy]

Picking out the colour palette for environments. I find my mind is always fighting me on "but buildings are grey" when I want to try something new, and like a light source is strong enough for everything to be awash with gold and purple hues. It's weird, it's like the process of colouring itself im totally fine with, I just can't force my brain away from what it think it knows rather than what it's seeing when I'm plotting out colours to begin with. Maybe I just need to do more photo studies or something. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[Resilo]

woops read as favorite part of drawing for some reason

Least favorite part would be:
getting your brain to lock on to the correct perspective and getting to to stay there for the entire drawing

[arcojawa]

Consistency

Ughhh............. why can't I draw the same thing twice and make both things look alike?

BAH

[kitschensyngk]

I used to dislike drawing hands, but then I found a trick to make it a bit easier:

The distance from your nose to the tip of your chin is about the same as the length of the entire palm, from between your wrist to where your fingers begin. The entire hand is a bit less than double that length.

As to stay on topic—large crowds are especially disheartening for me to draw, especially when you're on a deadline.