For me its a conceptual complaint. I hate how derivative art is. I dont want to reference stuff directly or indirectly, I want to pull crazy stuff up from out of nowhere somehow. It's impossible of course, everything has to come from something but the artists who do nothing but draw stiff lifes, respect for the skill, but they completely baffle me from a conceptual level. How can they be satisfied?

I will not colour between the lines.

I prefer to draw traditionally, so one I thing I hate about it is erasing the sketch after doing the lineart. It always has to fade out a bit and it drives me fucking nuts lol, especially if the fineliners claim to "fade-proof". Maybe I need a softer eraser or something...

Usually having a white tiny spot that I forgot to color or the shading just look bad.

One of the worst thing to me is when I drawed everything. But feel like one

arm should be somewhere else and the whole body doesn't give the movement

that it should be attribute with it. So I just tell myself. "Oh, screw it. I wasn't thinking about that

earlier"

And then I see the final product and it makes me feel like I could have done it better.

Planning everything beforehand sucks.. It removes the immersion and the process of

being connected to the muse.

That’s the hard truth about this world, Template: nothing is new under the sun. Everything has been done at some point or another. What makes things unique is when WE put OUR OWN spin on it. That’s why people who draw still-lifes are satisfied: because it was something they made with their own creative spin. Heck, I’ve come up with some unique concepts in the past that were probably already done centuries ago. And besides, art comes from our own experiences. In a way, all art is derivative.

We all go through that phase when it comes to our work. What matters is you keep drawing with confidence. Because persistence, practice, and confidence are key to getting better with your work.

A little something my mother told me when it came to traditional drawing: use a light pad, then place the sketch under a fresh sheet. It’s no different than adding another layer to a digital piece and drawing over it.

That’s cool. There are artstyles that tend to break their boundaries too. It can add a sort of charm to it if done well.

Formatting for client work. When working for myself, I can take shortcuts and use less layers because I'm not likely to make major compositional changes, but in any instance where I'll be responding to feedback and delivering a PSD at the end, I need to maintain a clean layer structure with a consistent naming convention, and every major feature needs to be separate from everything else. All in all it adds at least a few hours to the process that I'd otherwise skip over.

For me it's when I start adding shading/shadows. I always get nervous that I'll accidentally mix up the direction of my imaginary light source, and then I won't notice until it's finished LOL. I usually fix this by drawing literal arrows on a separate locked layer until I'm done, but sometimes I still make mistakes and don't notice it until days later.

Besides that, getting started is also always kinda daunting too. Sometimes it takes me a while just to get started on the "real" drawing because I had to keep starting the sketch over and over again until finally reaching a pose/composition I like. But hey, I guess that's just part for the course lmao

one thing you could do is check out fashion blogs online, or find archived fashion magazines. for example if you want gyaru fashion, check out egg magazine

me personally most of my characters are naked but when they are not, i think about:

how the character is built and pick clothes that are flattering for their build

what do i want to place emphasis on? Figure that out and draw attention to it

What colours look good with the character's skintone/hair

clothes can also be used for characterization and to describe the character's setting as well.

For me...just finishing it. There are so many pieces that are pretty close to being finished. But it's like the closer I am to being finished, the less I worry about finishing it. I think my thought process goes along the lines of, "Oh, I'm so close to finishing this piece anyway, so I can hold off on it for a while. And hey, while I'm doing that, I can totally just start up on this new piece I've been thinking about doing and finish the other one later!" Or I'll end up thinking, "Man, this piece is really beating my butt. Oh, I know what'll refresh me! Another project!" That, and I tend to procrastinate in general. And I'm either working or sleeping after working

I've always disliked the final cleanup and coloring process on anything involving linework, usually it means zooming in and having to look at all the horrible spurs and one-pixel gaps between strokes that I couldn't see before. Even if it can be difficult to finally commit to starting a sketch sometimes, at least there's fun to be had in the process of actually sketching.

I knooow but I keep falling down the same hole 😭. But yeah I find myself overthinking a lot of stuff. I have one drawing in mind rn so Ill try and keep it simple for this one.

Detailing an art is something that i dislike, especially if the detailed part has some perspective or in 3 dimensional, it's gonna take a long time for me to draw it

The art process doesn't have many steps I dislike.

There's loads of things about it that suck (layer mistakes, de-drawing A Thing 100 times just to realise the first one was best, hands...) but I still enjoy it. If I didn't, I probably wouldn't keep doing it.

Honestly my least favourite part is posting the art.

And that's got nothing to do with where it's posted, or how people interract with me or my works (people are always very nice), but I'm just not very social despite my best efforts and I don't get very much out of seeing my numbers go up, or getting comments. Obviously I still appreciate them and I think it's nice to get them, but it's my least favourite part of the process.

Physical pain. Strain on the eyes, neck, and wrist.

Finding the perfect lines and proportions is still the most difficult part about drawing.

Always get up and stretch when you get the chance. Take a walk if need be. Always put your health first.

It’s a bad habit to have. I’ve been a tad guilty of unfinished products myself, few though they may be. Still, it’s not good for your mental health to leave projects unfinished. It can lead to a sense of unfulfillment and regret that sticks with you. Think about how satisfying it would be to finish something you’ve been putting your heart into.

As long as you don’t go overboard on details, you’ll be alright. There’s beauty in simplicity.

I’m kinda like that too. I’m not very social, but it’s because I’m either brush with life or I have no idea what to say or ask. That's something I’ve been slowly overcoming, and it’s something you can do as well. You just have to keep at it.

Def drawing the body cause I'll get it wrong 1000 times before finally drawing the body's shapes correctly

Oooh, man. For me, it's definitely the shading and lineart processes, especially the anatomy tho. It was so painful, man.

My one problem with art is that no one told me when you want to draw something you have to make the whole thing.

i'm tempted to offer to color your stuff for you, but i'm not sure if i can (besides, you'd still have to draw the shadows and highlights even if i helped coloring them)

Make the background 💀

and it's even worse if I have to do a complex landscape or room

Sketching, I hate, I hate, I hate sketching, I hate having to figure out the pose, the flow of the gesture, how the perspective affects the previous two, how it interacts with the environment, correction, second correction, third correction, letting it rest and then noticing I fucked almost everything, do it over, a correction, a second correction, and now... We can truly enjoy the process of inking it, coloring it and shading it... The place where I'm happy.

If you are a client of mine and you asked me for a commission, if I am not giving you any updates is probably because the sketch is beating my ass up.

Making more complex limb. I can do the torso and the head, but arms, legs are definitely my hardest challenge

Yeah, that’s the ultimate given.