Things you hate to draw.

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i once read in a book about cloth folds (by bridgman) a likening of death to inert cloth folds. total succumbing to gravity...

on topic: i dont know... i guess i dont like drawing what doesnt hit my fancy at that time. no specific things. i used to hate drawing this or that until i noticed with how much you can get away if you pull it off the right way.

landscapes

hmm..I've never tried drawing a fully-dead person...why do you think it doesn't look real?
though it may be hard to...because there are subtle differences between a living and dead body... skin color(less red for a dead), pose, eye expression...

Yeah, death, i forgot about it. My dead peeps look just catatonic... <_< I'm not sure how a real dead person looks like thought :?

mountains

I actually like to draw hands, even if they don't always turn out well. I've practiced alot and can draw them pretty well now. Hair, though, can be pretty hard.

The human body. I know all the anatomy and the 3-D theory and still mine look like bad 80's cartoons.

Landscapes too.

Hands and feet are difficult but if I take enough time I get them right.

The main things I hate to draw are mundane modern-day things like modern architecture and regular man-made objects. Like what you'd see in a assembly / technical manual or product advertising. That stuff just bores me to tears.

Hands, feet and limbs are the hardest for me. Everything else is pretty easy.

I have trouble portraying the intended emotion in my characters.

i had problems with that for quite some time until i found something almost tailor-made for aspies.
in the beginning, i was trying to make emotions work by reproducing body language as fitting as possible - which was quite a bad idea, since i dont understand much of body language and the tiniest mishappenings in facial expressions can change the whole thing around. anecdote from my grandfather who used to be a woodcarver: he was asked by a fellow to make him a crucified jesus. the fellow watched over his shoulder when my grandfather worked on his face. "make him suffer more", the fellow implored, "a bit more, a bit more" - and at one point, when the more and more of suffering went beyond good measure, my grandfather interrupted him "damnit, now hes laughing!"
i am straying off topic...

on an art forum, i was introduced to telling the story through composition. i now rely on (for example) the perceived stability of a composition for the overall effect, and fill in some expression that just somehow needs to fit. in the (not so exact) words of a great instructor, mr. roberts howard: "if you compose a landscape peacefully, you can paint a brigade of tanks rolling through it and it wont disturb the peace. if you compose a granny with a tablet of fresh cookies viciously, you wont lose the feeling that the cookies probably are poisoned."
how at-ease a composition is can be worked out easier, i think, as its more about weight and counterweight, shapes, tonal values, etcetera... instead of things that are opaque to me.

I suck at drawing people.

Same here.

Pretty much anything since I can't draw worth a hill of beans. I am more for writing the people down in great detail myself. Yep I like to make characters mapping them out from apperance to morals and all points in between.

Depth, absolutely hopeless at that.

ears