ArtBistro

I'm curious to see what other people have trouble drawing.  Whether it's eyes, noses, hair, clothing, landscape.....anything!!!

The hardest thing for me(that takes the longest) is hair....it drives me crazy!  

The hardest thing to draw is Plants, in anything but the closest details. Part of the problem for me is that it is so hard to find the right kind of photograph. The camera tens to blend all the leaves together in shapeless masses, and one of the most aggevating thing is that you can expose for hight lights, or for shafaowa. but usually not both. Recently I bought Corel photo shop 11 and one thing you can do is to combine two different exposures of the same scene. I haven't tried it yet, but it sounds promising.

A portrait of someone you love,because you see them like no other person would see  them

i agree with Sanjoe that a portrait of someone you love is hardest.

I find portraits hard all together therefor i dont do them which makes so many people including myself mad. I have been offered commissions to do portraits of peoples kids or murals of famiies on thier walls and I just dont do portraits. I am not good at them. With all the practice in the world I still dont hink I would be good at it and it is very frutrating..now if they wanted me to do a family portrait in the nude without the faces i'd be great at it but somehow I dont think that would go over so well with the customer. I have the hardest time with faces and more specifically the nose on the face.

I agree that people are never satisfied with their image with portraits. It often goes over into photogrpahy. I once had a job in a portriat studio and hated it because it was awful trying to get people to look the way they wanted to look on film. Especially with kids it was so hard to satisfy a customer of a kid that was misbehaving for the shoot,  and well not very cute...and they would point to a sample of a darling child and say i want my kids picture to look like that and I had to be like well that was the pose and background we used and wish I could say your kid does not look like that so you cant get that result from your kids photo...each kid is different...thats why I like freelance photgraphy more...you can capture anyones best side they way they are naturally without using stupid poses and props it justt akes a good eye and patience to get the rigth shot...something not always allowed in a studio because you have to be quick to stay on shcedule with the days bookings.

Hand  and feet.It is because every person in my paintings have their hand and feet positioned differently. I studied anatomy of the hand and feet I have drawn the hundreds of times but none of those fits onto any of the new situation. It is getting better but it takes longer to make it work.

A steady paycheck.

Illustrations in perspective! Don't know if others find this hard, too. In my high school art classes, this was the only kind of assignment I hated!

I agree...I have trouble with hair...Hands give me a lot of issues too...

Okay, class, today we're going to draw hands and hair … in perspective! (Collective groan.)

I am a CAD tech, and I'm sure it would make it easier to draw a ship in perspective, because what you do is literally build the ship and then you can easily "photograph" your 3D ship from any angle you want.  I switched from drawing elevations to building the room+furniture in 3D and snapping pics of each wall... what a cheater I am. 

Anyway, when it comes to pencil, I do not have problems with hands, feet, faces or perspective.  I find hair fun and challenging.  I think the hardest thing I have ever drawn was a glass vase.  I put a pic of it in my portfolio album.  Glass is really hard to capture in pencil, but very rewarding when it's finished.

As for colored pencil:  I think children's faces are tough because their skin is usually more translucent and it's hard to pinpoint the colors just right.

Oh I love to do portraits in pencil...hands are not hard to do..just copy them. I think if you are a good artist, there's no such thing as hard to draw. You can draw anything under the sun....

Musical instruments!  Especially the swirly thing at the end of a guitar neck.  I draw comics, and am good with drawing organic forms, like people, but need to take more time with drawing anything manmade.  Because people expect things like guitars to look a certain way, and if I make a mistake it's much more apparent than if I messed up a person's arm perspective :P

Actually the hardest thing for me to draw is my right hand - since that's the hand that's holding the pencil.

treplovski says ...

Actually the hardest thing for me to draw is my right hand - since that's the hand that's holding the pencil.

That wouldn't hold true, if you were "action drawing"! Then, only your right hand could "draw' your right right, right? -KD