I'm not sure if I can really hate, I think the only things I wish to improve on is my line art (I don't have a reall steady hand, so I tried to work with it) and my color rendering, I feel like it never comes out right lol.

There's no escape. You're bound to your art forever.

i am allergic to holding a single artstyle

Now that the thread is no longer about shitting on other people, apparently, I guess I’ll contribute.

The thing I hate about my art is that no matter what goals I set for it, I never end up improving. I want to look less anime, I want to do better line art, this and that. But it rarely ever works.

I don’t know if it’s a motivation problem or just a lack of guidance with exactly how to do things visually that I want to do. I tend to need a reference for a style, technique, or subject matter if I want to diverge from my usual, so can imagine that it frustrates those of you who are trying to help me when you try to explain things in words and I just don’t get it. (It probably is also motivation - I still get discouraged when I’m faced with the idea of needing to put more effort into my work than I already do. My schedule makes it take a long time to finish anything, and things that take a long time are daunting to me.)

do a few quick anatomy and forum studies a week. Regular focused practice adds up quickly, and lineart improves if you put in a focused effort to make it cohesive with the rest of the image

again I'm not good at art, but I find having intention and thought behind what your doing improves the quality drastically, as opposed to just making something for the sake of making something

I found out recently that close ups and larger scale drawings (like in size on the page) are weirdly difficult for me so that

Laziness.

I am always lazy at anything, sometimes hard-working on art but not that much, to be honest.

I don’t see anything negative in this honestly lol, it’s always good to know how to draw multiple art styles.

I stink at proportioning, the ideas aren't enough when it comes to quantity/quality, I ESPECIALLY hate that I cannot draw art as more 3D or even at any other perspective other than horizontally. Speaking of perspective I'm 90% sure I got it wrong.

This is particularly true with the new piece of art I tried drawing yesterday since I couldn't seem to get the right angle. Especially with the lower body-which btw looks like jello. The reason being that I tried drawing it with a front foot/ back foot deal but have never tried that before. It ended up bad and I gave myself stick figure legs. I didn't even bother keeping the hair since it looked worse. I said "Fuck it. Make 'em bald."

I also have a horrible habit of pressing down too hard on the paper so I usually end up with REALLY dark lines that are hard to erase. So I usually say "fuck it" and outline it with a black colored pencil. And for some reason I randomly get ideas in the middle of the night most of the time. Yesterday my idea came up at devil's hour (I just found that out when searching the time of day it was when I drew it).

Some paranormal activity right there...

kinda stiff ig

im still shit at dynamic poses however ill keep trying

The feeling of knowing that I could be better if I just had the patiences to practice. Most of the time I can only have patiences for one evening and that's it. If I'm lucky it lasts for two.

lack of textures and general stiffness, specially on finished products

It's a close tie between "nothing" and "idk".

But for the sake of answering I guess I hate it when I submit a piece then immediately notice a ton of imperfections and I just wanna go back on it and make a dozen tweaks, clean up the linework, etc. But perfect is the enemy of done, so I've just learned to let it slide.

I suppose I'm unsatisfied with it lacking pneuma, despite all the emotions that get poured into these creations and how well they turn out. Something that brings it closer to life. Animation is the closest substitute to that. But even then it's just that, a substitute, an animation. It's not something I hate. It's just like an itch that'll never go away. Something that can never be fully satisfied.

But that also serves as a good motivator and would probably be for the best that no way is found around that. Nonetheless I still like my creations.

Is not that I hate it or that I'm unsatisfied with it, but a lot of times I feel I could do things better, either for a drawing I just made or for something from some time ago, it's probably just the learning process.

Well my quality on traditional art compared to digital is massive, that’s all. It looks awful in digital, but I’m practicing more on digital to somehow learn to get familiar with digital software

It doesn’t exist yet

Two things, mainly:

1. I procrastinate... A lot. I have all these ideas for art but I never actually do any of them because I easily get distracted by other things. Usually wasting time online doing other unrelated things.
2. This is particularly relevant to something I just posted on my alt and quickly disowned (considering deleting), but, I suck with a lot of fundamentals, often not noticing anything too wrong with anything I drew until long after upload, especially anatomy, leading to me inevitably posting poorly received art to websites like this. I guess it doesn't help that when I was learning human anatomy, I went about it in a completely disorganized, scattered way and I still feel like I don't understand A LOT, and I'm not sure I want to relearn anatomy again! I'm sure my procrastination also hasn't helped, since I seem to have forgotten a lot of what I spent last year trying to figure out.

I've had such a procrastination for so long that I feel like its kind of a fundamental issue with me which I don't actually know at all how to properly solve. Things I've tried in the past have pretty much always failed there, and it always sucks when I realize all the years I spent wasting my time on things that really don't matter, could've been spent practicing and preventing my second issue from popping up.

As for fundamentals, especially with human anatomy, I do think following an organized course (preferably something similar to Draw a Box) may help a lot. but even then that assumes I can overcome my procrastination issues and better learn to take my time. Because I have all these ideas I want to execute I end up rushing through these things as well, leading to the poor reception... I'm not sure what the solution is but, I don't like the low self esteem that usually happens afterwards (got to a point where I was wondering it I just... wasn't cut out for doing art), I don't like rushing through my art or studies and I do find myself wishing I could go back in time and change things...

I'm trying to move on past drawing static poses and similar faces but it's a big struggle for me as it's something I find very easy to just draw repeatedly

I doubt this is an uncommon one, but honestly, I mainly just really hate how inconsistent my art is? I frequently tweak my style, depending on the piece, and my anatomy is quite inconsistent as well. I'm always trying to get better at understanding anatomy though, which will hopefully lead to more and more consistency as time goes on.

On the other hand, I also think having an inconsistent art style really isn't the worst thing? I feel like some pieces wouldn't be the same or... just look as good as they do if I didn't go in the direction I did with them, even if it was a little different than previous works. Hope I'm making sense! :]

Shitty mark making

Biggest one for the longest time would be composition. It's something I tried to focus on but get mad at the WIP still looking stiff. But that part is more me straight up forgetting about perspective in general.

Anatomy fuckups is another of course but those can give me a giggle sometimes.

that they're not connected to each other enough.

i base my drawings on lores i made up previously, and it's fun while drawing but after that when i look at my gallery they don't really tell a story. for example there's character A showing up multiple times in illustrations but it doesn't show any more about the world she's in.

i've tried making some illustrations with dialogues but it doesn't ring right, they're odd, maybe i'm not good at writing. making comics is very hard too. i have to make up multiple povs in one successive scene.

maybe i should just draw more until i find out what makes a good 'show don't tell' art.

I feel like I'm the opposite. I found myself enjoying writing and thinking up dialogue more than actually drawing. And when I get to drawing the comics, they just end up looking simplistic or else the drawings will drown the character's feelings.

I want to draw cool stuff first, but the story gets in the way so I end up not drawing the cool stuff. Even though I like the dialogue, I didn't like speech bubbles in cool action scenes.

Well one way to improve on that is actually write out the scripts or stories of your characters. I used to often do just short keywords and scripts until recently (4 months ago) i was nudged to write my story out as a book. I said no, I am not a writer, i doodle and scripts and snippets been fine as is.But i did take the challenge.

40 000 words in I realized - same way as I open the characters more in writing, I actually have changed the way i do them in my drawings. Mainly the way I set them on a scene and there has been feedback where some people have started to add potential captions to characters.

Now as for dialogues, due to my background from stage, I use old actors trick (which also i have read some good writers use) - I say them out loud. Like I genuinely have a dialogue out loud. And have to admit, I have busted plenty of shittty lines like this and rewritten whole scenes because dialogues sound wrong - "No one talks like this" or "no one outside shitty netflix self inserts speaks like this".

I do think you can do comics and images with dialogues, you just have to find a way to make yourself good references. For me it is writing a story and talking with myself as the character. You may find your own ways. Your character probably needs to have a life built outside your drawings, just for you so you'd understand them much better next time you put them on a doodle.

... if I made any sense. 7 am, i might make none.

It's the same for me, I feel like my work is too stiff still

Saying dialog outloud is probably a good idea, keep finding the stuff i write to be pretty terrible in that sense

either it sucks or its based on a conversation I have had, probably still sucks

Considering the title of this thread, I don't really hate these flaws of mine anymore. I used to, but I accepted that it's a part of what I like doing anyway. I only wanted to draw cool stuff with comics at first and I thought that stories aren't essential. But I realized that even though I like drawing and looking at cool stuff more than stories. I enjoy the process of writing stories more than the cool stuff.

So yeah, hate is not really the word to describe it. It's more like being mildy infuriated about not being able to bridge the two together properly yet.

Idk, i'll be honest, idk if my art is any good to begin with.

I mean, i've tried to be better each time, evolve, learn how to make them better, but, idk, i feel like it's never enough sometimes.

Specially since i went to Discord and see if my art was good enough, sure, the dude who commented in my art was helpful, and i'm thankful for his help, but, idk, it's one of those days if idk if what i'm doing is good enough.

The loss in precision & detail. I was much better at it when I was drawing in the 2000's to early 2010's. Given that my stylistic changes in the last few years are mostly due to the onset of health conditions, there ain't much I can do about it. Life is what it is.