What's your least favourite part of drawing?

[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.

[ProfessorParsec]

Definitely makes you respect the cartoonists from the 50's who didn't have these new-fangled programs to copy paste anything.

[ProfessorParsec]

Yeah, it's easy to get lost in the details of drawing each person in a crowd as well. Two hours later, and you've succeeded in giving half the crowd very intricate faces, and the rest still aren't there.

[rajillustration]

Definitely putting in flats and isolating different parts to use as masks later. It's so freakin boring and I don't know if it's worth the effort if that makes sense? If I use color, I much prefer to just dig in and paint, without laying flats first. Flats take me so long to do, even with clip studio paint tools, that I feel like it's quicker to just fix where I accidentally went over the lines later than have a really methodical process with 10000 layers. Especially when everyone else is doing the same flats technique it's like...it works but I gotta stand out some other way.

[ProfessorParsec]

I get it, for sure. That's why I draw without lines, essentially combining flats and line art into one process. Even for the work that I did for other people, I tended to have one layer that was the entire outline and then do a bunch of layers masked to that one with locked transparency so that I could adjust the colours on the fly without having to redo everything.

IMO, I think some comics don't need colour, just because their ink work is beautiful on its own.

[Strontium]

Looking up references for anatomy. Some times I have a specific pose in mind but I can't visualize it enough, but I never know what search terms to put in and get the image I want. I've gotten better at this in the years since I've started my comic, but I don't like doing it.

[akemikae]

Strangely enough, I have an easy time drawing hands dynamically, but I'm the worst at drawing a static boring hand. So my characters always have over dramatic hand gestures, cause static hands and I are not on speaking terms.

I also struggle drawing shoulders when they're moving up toward the face, I always feel like I either draw them too small, making the head look giant, or too wide, making them look just....incorrect. Why are shoulders so weird when they move???