What do you hate most about doing your comic?

EvilChihuahua · Post by **EvilChihuahua** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:13 pm

De4dlines. If I had a billion years to do each comic, they would probably look a lot awesomer.

Stinkywigfiddle · Post by **Stinkywigfiddle** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:32 pm

Jackhass wrote:I find the photoshop stuff (scanning, doing the lettering and shading) fairly tedious. I don't much like drawing on a computer.

Same here. Although I do my lettering by hand. Scanning is annoying mostly because the page doesn't fit my scanner.

MaskedLioness · Post by **MaskedLioness** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:36 pm

The amount of time it takes to draw it. I feel like I put way to much time into the drawing stage for what I get out of it.

I love coloring, personally.

Humbug · Post by **Humbug** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:38 pm

Backgrounds, if I could, I'd have all my characters floating in negative space, and deadlines, I really wish I had more time to focus on the comic. I enjoy doing everthing else though, the lineart is my favourite part.

Jesslynstormheart · Post by **Jesslynstormheart** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:33 pm

Ahhh. Some good answers. Interesting to see how people have their own set of annoyances. For instance, I find inking to be easy. Takes me 15 minutes or so to ink a panel. And erasing the pencil lines takes me about 2 minutes after it's inked.

I highly agree with the drawing hands and drawing backgrounds. I'm just not as good with backgrounds as I'd like to be.

The time to tell the story is a major one. I already have 6 graphic novels scripted for Jesslyn Stormheart. After 3 months I'm only halfway through the first novel. It will probably take 3 or 4 years for the drawing to catch up with the story lol.

Tynan · Post by **Tynan** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:39 pm

I hate my comic so much I dont do it.

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Now that the bulk of the spacers are gone from my general area I can say that without fear!

TRI · Post by **TRI** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:01 pm

Backgrounds. I love rich detailed backgrounds with realistic perspective from interesting angles... but I hate drawing them. I'm always either at a loss for ideas of what to put in the background, or I have ideas but the perspective drives me BATTY!

ChibiJess · Post by **ChibiJess** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:31 pm

I hate dealing with my tablet and photoshop losing pressure sensitivity right when I'm trying to do detail work.

But specifically with the comic - I hate being unable to keep my schedule - I'd love to update on time - but seem able to do it only in spurts.

(I love coloring, though)

Brockway · Post by **Brockway** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:13 pm

I started updating again using a tablet, and it actually works great. I seem to have some trouble with Gimp crashing whenever I try to save though ~_~ . TM thinks its something to do with GTK. Lost some cool drawings cause of it. The winsaveopen plugin bypasses the bug by using explorer to open and save. I've noticed some lag too using the tablet to color. The actual color is like 2 seconds behind where I am and its still filling in. Maybe need a driver update.
Time also sucks. My comics like 4 years old and I only have like 55 updates. Trying to get the story out of my head and finish it takes forever with my slow drawing >_< . I love drawing faces and hair whipping around, action's tough, and my comic's action/adventure based.

LibertyCabbage · Post by **LibertyCabbage** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:22 pm

mcDuffies wrote:
LibertyCabbage wrote:Inking =O The fun and challenge is in the pencilling, and it seems like inking is just a necessary step so that the comic doesn't look like crap when you scan it =p
Maybe you can check a book on inking or few. When you pick up some inking rules and techniques, the process becames more challenging and far drom simple tracing.

Thanks, will do!

Rickford · Post by **Rickford** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:30 pm

Backgrounds I find to be an arse. Although it takes ages, since I know what I'm doing I generally rather enjoy the photoshop colouring process.

Laundromatcomics · Post by **Laundromatcomics** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:54 pm

I really wish that whatever I drew looked as good on paper as it did in my head.

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:06 pm

It's something new at different times of year. At some points it will be coloring, others it will be drawing, and sometimes it'll even be the stage of adding text and dialogue bubbles.

Right now, it's everything, which is why I'm taking a break. Thanks to the buffer, my readers can't tell.

(Comic Buffer. Readers don't know it's not last-minute!)

AVEM · Post by **AVEM** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:39 pm

Using pen, for me. I always mess up and it's very time consuming. And then scanning it without it looking like mud. Ah. That bugs me. If only I could just draw it in pencil, then have it find it's way onto the internet without touching a computer.

Black Fox · Post by **Black Fox** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:41 am

I'd say base coloring! It's what slows the process down most than everything! I like shading and backgrounds...

The Neko · Post by **The Neko** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:27 am

Having to be funny each strip, often trying to live up to the expectations raised by previous milestones.

Often it's the brainwork involved with panel composition.

Din · Post by **Din** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:01 am

The lack of time. It kills me sometimes to get a page done a week and even then I don't treat it right. Stupid life and how it interfers with my internets.

Doll · Post by **Doll** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:28 am

Trying to come up with a strip each week that doesn't suck.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:52 am

For the regular characters, it's full body shots with their school shoes (okay, they're really only sneakers), especially if they're walking or running. I have trouble getting the legs the right length (too short by just enough to annoy me) or the feet don't seem to angle properly.

I enjoy writing about and having fun with my spirit characters, but they're a bugger to colour and touch up on the computer because I have to colour the background behind them first, and then colour them over the top, fiddle with the transparency, hope the background ink lines don't make the features of the spirits hard to see, and then put a glow around their outside lines, and remove the excess glow from inside their lines.

I reckon they usually look pretty cool when done (as far as the style I use), but it can be a fair bugger doing four panels in a row like that.

Mr.Bob · Post by **Mr.Bob** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:38 am

The Neko wrote:Having to be funny each strip, often trying to live up to the expectations raised by previous milestones.

Often it's the brainwork involved with panel composition.

BE FUNNY! BE FUNNY! BE FUNNY!