What do you hate most about doing your comic?

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:51 am

Making people do stuff for m-

No, wait, that's the thing I LOVE about comics.

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:09 am

Mr.Bob wrote:
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!

*Smacks Bob with a 2-by-4*

Huh... pressure to be funny is gone... What do you know: it was Bob the whole time!

Biev · Post by **Biev** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:49 am

Half of my story is set in my crazy made up world, so what I hate is having to draw the half that takes place in the real world. It's much harder to get the settings right. Or much more boring, anyway (-_-)

Garneta · Post by **Garneta** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:51 am

Shading. Filling in the areas is easy and only takes a couple minutes, but once I started shading everything the process got much longer, and can be tedious at times. I love the part that comes after the shading, though, which is putting all the pieces together and finishing the strip!

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:51 am

20+ hours per page is pretty annoying, though I've been getting faster it seems. Planning layout, editing dialogue, and the actual execution is time consuming. Drawing backgrounds takes a while too, but at least it's fun.

My inking looks cleaner now that I got rid of hatching for the most part, but it lost a lot of it's warmth.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:52 am

I hate starting backgrounds. It's fun once you get going, but laying out the initial lines is always a bear.

Also, trees. TREES.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:55 am

Heh. my trees are pretty crap.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:33 am

I sometimes hate having to sacrifice a couple strips to almost nothing but text because there's something that HAS to be said to explain the science, and yet there just isn't any good way to sketch out anything useful about that science.

Like the history of the guy who made Thermite. I put his picture in so it wasn't all text. But it had to be said to answer the question.

RemusShepherd · Post by **RemusShepherd** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:37 am

I like trees. I'd draw trees all the time if I could.

I hate the interiors of office buildings. "Let's see, I'll make this wall a shade greener than the last one".

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:48 am

I find that drawing rooms can be quite orgasmic sometimes. I suck at outdoor scenes though unless they're are buildings around. And even then my buildings could be better.

Des · Post by **Des** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:49 am

Any type of background. I pretty much fail at any type of landscape or cityscape or anything indoors, out doors... whatever. And then when I give up and just fill the backgrounds in with a tone they look... dumb.

But I've pretty much perfected my comic making processes so no one part is more tedious than another. So basically its all a pain in the ass or its all happy sunshine... depends on my mood.

Rcmonroe · Post by **Rcmonroe** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:25 am

I haven't been doing it long enough to be truly sick of ANY part of the process, but some I like less than others are:

1) Drawing panels. Almost as fun as clipping toenails. Imagine doing THAT every day.

2) Typesetting/layout of the word balloons. Tedious.

3) Scanning.

4) Having to fix inking mistakes in Photoshop. I don't make as many as I used to, but I still hate it when I have to deal with it.

5) Having to wait for the computer to do ANYTHING that takes more than 1.5 seconds. My time on this planet is waning. I hate spending ANY of it looking at a spinning beachball.

Okay, I guess I hate doing a comic strip a lot more than I thought. Screw it, I quit.

Actually, the only thing I hate is the lousy rate of pay. I keep hoping for a raise. But my boss is ambiguous, shadowy, and ethereal.

Ida · Post by **Ida** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:58 am

Inking, definitely. Because 1) it's time consuming as hell (I average 4 hours per inked page or so...), 2) it's pretty boring, IMHO and 3) it's the middle step between drawing and coloring, which means that when I do it, I'm still far enough from the completion of the page to see the light at the end of the tunnel, but I'm still far enough in the process to be stressed out over deadlines. Inking, meh!

Coloring is probably no. 2, but I still find that a good deal more enjoyable and less tedious than inking.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:33 am

I hate drawing cars.

CaptainClaude · Post by **CaptainClaude** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:36 am

Backgrounds, backgrounds perspective, colouring backgrounds so they dont clash like mad, getting too much ink on the dip pen, making a huges splodge after doing so and not being able to clean it up, and having to answer when people ask what i hate most about comicking.

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:23 pm

the thing I hate the most is not being a quick enough artist. well that and the fact that my skills don't neccessarily live up to my visions.. but if I was faster I'd get more practice in.

Robin Pierce · Post by **Robin Pierce** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:30 pm

rcmonroe wrote: 5) Having to wait for the computer to do ANYTHING that takes more than 1.5 seconds. My time on this planet is waning. I hate spending ANY of it looking at a spinning beachball.

YES. ... well.. minus the spinning beachball. I have a sheep that runs around.

Shishio · Post by **Shishio** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:32 pm

Everything.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:33 pm

pierce studios wrote:
rcmonroe wrote: 5) Having to wait for the computer to do ANYTHING that takes more than 1.5 seconds. My time on this planet is waning. I hate spending ANY of it looking at a spinning beachball.
YES. ... well.. minus the spinning beachball. I have a sheep that runs around.

At work, we call it the spinning wheel of death. It's the rainbow one that means the computer is having a brain fart.

DJMayhem · Post by **DJMayhem** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:39 pm

having to read a webcomic two or three times over.

no wait wrong topic.