Which is harder, drawing or writing?

[Turnsky]

i see it like this: both have their fair share of difficulties, but it boils down to this.

It's easier to Improve with drawing than it is with writing, writing's far harder to criticise because most things you can't really put a finger on like one can with artwork.

[[geoduck]]

Drawing. I can easily pour out all kinds of ideas, but getting them onto the computer screen is actual work.

[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

i see it like this: both have their fair share of difficulties, but it boils down to this.

It's easier to Improve with drawing than it is with writing, writing's far harder to criticise because most things you can't really put a finger on like one can with artwork.

This is true. It's hard for me to give someone criticism for writing without just taking the thing and rewriting the offending part.

[McDuffies]

I dunno, I kinda have an impression that in review sites, writing is picked apart in more detail, while drawing is commented in most vaguely descriptive terms. It's perhaps not so when the reviewer is artist himself, but if he isn't, then he doesn't have art terminology and if he knows something is wrong, he doesn't analyze what's wrong, he just knows whether he likes the style or not.
But it's much easier to reach consensus with drawing than with writing. If someone can't draw, that's usually pretty obvious and usually everyone can tell. But when it comes to writing, one person's predictable and derivative is other person's professional and well-structured; one person's likeable characters are other person's one-dimensional characters. Which is probably why it's harder to learn to write, 'cause you get many contradictory comments from various sides.

[RobboAKAscooby]

Which is probably why it's harder to learn to write, 'cause you get many contradictory comments from various sides.

The way I see it if you have a story you should just tell it, there's always going to be people who don't like it but so long as it's not poorly written it's all good (same goes for artwork I guess), stories are meant to be told.

As far as the technical side of writing goes we've all been reading books for years so we should know how it's supposed to work, the rest is just putting you own "voice" to it.

[Yeahduff]

The voice is the bitch of it though.

[McDuffies]

The way I see it if you have a story you should just tell it, there's always going to be people who don't like it but so long as it's not poorly written it's all good (same goes for artwork I guess), stories are meant to be told.

I think that the gist of what I'm saying is that people always disagree about what is poorly written.
Though I fall in the group that thinks that the way the story is told is often more important than the story that is being told. I think that the Hollywood's concept of "high concept" can be thanked for that. It's a concept where good ideas are bought, good stories are promised based on some distinctive plot points, but then in 99% of cases they're being told in such clumsi, amateurish, by-the-numbers, derivative, impersonal, oportunistic way, that renders them completely unwatchable.
Yet on the other hand, there are still some great, original, undiscovered ways to re-tell Romeo and Juliette.

As far as the technical side of writing goes we've all been reading books for years so we should know how it's supposed to work, the rest is just putting you own "voice" to it.

A high percent of sucky writing or drawing that I've seen on internet can be accounted for people simply reading sucky stuff. A few times when I was reviewing, I couldn't give any actually constructive criticism other than "start reading good stuff instead".

The voice is the bitch of it though.

I feel that it's a matter of letting go of yourself, stop thinking what some professional comicker should do in your place and whatnot. Like, when I stay away from some obsessive themes because I fear I'll be redundant, but then I figure, maybe those themes represent me better, maybe I'm simply "that guy who always writes about that stuff" and maybe that's good. But I think we all have many voices and they're all good, so that hasn't been a big concern of mine. It's only finding a voice that audience will like that is elusive.

[Victory-prime]

for me writing is the toughest part. especially, when your worried about Continuity, if the story is good, or what direction you want the story to go.

[Terotrous]

for me writing is the toughest part. especially, when your worried about Continuity, if the story is good, or what direction you want the story to go.

Yeah, this can definitely be tricky. I find it's harder to force the ideas out, you almost have to wait for them. It's definitely easier to sit down and draw.