Art Complaints Theater

Feet. Damned leg-hands.

I have to try really hard to not draw Simpsons-style shoes or flat feet. :'(

Bluh. Inkscape: When a layer is for some reason, impossibly contradicted so it's below or above a layer it shouldn't, because it needs to be above or below an entirely different layer.

T.T

Every time I try to make on-screen undo/redo buttons for Photoshop, the panel expands to cannibalize the view navigator. Every pen looks more gray than black. Every time I hand my sketchbook to someone, they pull it out of my hands and smear the penciled parts. I have to use a keyboard just so I can press the "z" key in My Paint.

Brought my sketchbook to work on a Wednesday because I was behind on drawing. Left it there. Wasn't at work again until next Tuesday.

Trying to draw groups of people. ARGH.

I agree so much. It's hard enough having to think about getting one person's proportion's right, and then with multiple people you have to think about all of that for each individuals, and whether their proportions are correct in relation to each other and arrrghhhggh

More practice, I guess.

Another complaint—when you're working with paints and you manage to mix the perfect color...then you use it all up, or have to wash it down the drain because you need to do something else, and you can't mix the same color again, so you're forced to make do with something close but not exactly right.

^^Try drawing them roughly as blocks, cutting them out and rearranging them. Or, divide the scene into clumps where you want to put people.

Why does engraves have to be so time consuming and its required tools so hard to find around here? Goddamn.

My art Axis of Evil: Smudges, Tracing, Perspective, Clothing Folds, Tumbril's Paint Mixing Issue, and Using Color To Define Shapes.

For some reason I reaaally stink at being motivated enough to script, thumbnail, sketch, draw and clean up comics. I can't even bear four panels. I make them just straight on and they're fine (albeit messy) but when I try to do it the 'right' way then I don't do it at all.

I really dislike shading, even though I know it's necessary (I attempt it, at least). I try to do it the way they taught us in class (just...scribble with the pencil, sort of?), and it fails, but when I do it my own way (which is, very lightly draw the edge of the shadow or light and color it in, then blend), it usually works.

Why can't I do it the "right" way and have it work? Do I have to even do it the "right" way? Is someone really going to be able to tell I used a different shading method? Because the teachers could only tell when I told them I used a different way (so you can imagine I didn't reveal my shading method and made sure my easel was faced away from them). The other students sure as heck couldn't tell.

edited 17th Nov '11 6:09:00 PM by BlackElephant

I'm no art student but I would say that telling you there's a right way and a wrong way when they both lead to the same result seems sort of ridiculous. Hell, even a right or wrong way to begin with. Doesn't really seem like the point of art (in general too, like music and dancing and stuff).

Why did I agree to draw someone holding a crossbow dear Lord whhhyyyyyyyyyyy.....

Me: Okay, Inkscape, color this sketch for me

Inkscape: TOO MANY LINES AND THEY'RE ALL GRAY AND FAINT. NO CAN DO.

Me: Fine, I'll trace it over in pen.

Hand: WOBBLE WOBBLE

Me: RUINED FOREVER

...I have inkscape, how does it color something in for you?

I was using this tutorial. Basically, you have to vector-ize the image and fill in the shapes.

I am just now learning the joys of trying to draw more than one person at a time, in the same shot, with proper proportions. I wound up just cutting the other guys' face out of the panel and showing his arm instead. Am I a bad artist?! >.<

I once had an art teacher who was rather biased about what types of art were good (basically, it was whatever she liked) and also refused to show us her own work. While the inability to tell the difference between personal taste and quality is frustrating, the fact that she didn't show the class her work did not help. It seems like it might have helped us improve, or at least figure out how to please the teacher, if she would have shown us what she personally did.

That sounds like a terrible teacher. It's like a Spanish teacher that refused to speak Spanish to the class.

@Snowy: Never, ever, ever, ever,ever, EVER ink over an original.

Hold the drawing up to a window (or buy a clear plastic clipboard), trace the original with a pencil, then ink over that.

(Don't trace with a pen, either. Too easy to mess up when you're drawing vertically.)

For class, we are going to have to draw a 3 panel strip every work day for the next five weeks, and one sunday strip.

Oh joy. This is gonna be tough.

I have discovered turning brown hair blond in GIMP is evil and should be burnt at the stake. EVIL.

Huh? Why?

because I tried to turn my hair blond in gimp and...it did not go well, because my hair still has the darkness of brunette, even if I lighten it.

A small part of myself die every time a piece of charcoal breaks unnintentionally.