The question is as simple as it is.

Well, I'm working on a new Burnhams page and it's tough as hell to draw and even though, I'm working hard. At times, I feel tired and I procrastinate a bit which would delay my updating. However, Most of the times, I update either 3 to 4 days after an old update occur.

So, what are your thoughts and feelings when this happens? Does a hard page to draw delay your updating scheduale?

Actually, hard-to-draw pages keep me from procrastinating. I figure trying new things is the best way to improve myself as an artist, so it motivates me to keep focused. :)

The only reason I ever miss an update is because I'm just so horribly, horribly lazy. :/

I have a ton of scanned pages (buffer), so I've never missed an update, but I have gone weeks (and even over a month) without drawing before.

It's not hard to draw pages that have caused it though -- just plain old writer's block. Usually I have a general story idea but I just can't get the details worked out on paper. Sometimes, I force it, but things work out better if I wait for inspiration. (When I run out of buffer, that tactic might not work, though.)

I sort of like the hard-to-draw pages. I get excited looking up references, taking pictures, and drawing multiple drafts. If any page makes me put off drawing it, it is the boring ones. I feel like I have to draw those to move on with the plot, but they are so BORING that it's just a chore. Even if it's easy, it's not *fun.* (Which, of course, is a good argument to try different angles and layouts to prevent boredom... If it's boring to draw, then it will be boring to read.)

It's one of the reasons I quit.

I haven't really drawn anything since either. So much for the practise I kept swearing I'd do.

Heh, that's the benefit of having another artist at my disposal (BetaJess) - she'll either have an idea in her head of how to do a particular panel. Sometimes just bouncing ideas off one another is helpful...and recently, I've taken to drawing rough storyboards (in LolCat Speak, no less) to get an idea of the layout and what camera angles work best.

Not really.
However, I've noticed that too much ambition comes in the way of the creative process. Be it because you realize that you just CANNOT pull off a certain number of pages per week, or because you suddenly see that your work isn't as high quality as you hoped it was, it starts getting to you and you become frustrated and stressed out. However, if you still try to reach your high standards despite knowing you won't be able to in the next couple of weeks because you're simply not ready yet, this overall frustration and stress becomes your constant companion.
And I speak from experience when I tell you that this is in no way a fructuous ground for creativity.

I don't know, I could suggest you not to take things so seriously. True, we have our deadlines we have to struggle with, but the comics we draw should - ideally - be something we love to do and prefer over anything else. Don't make the mistake to see it as yet another awful job you HAVE to do. It will steal all your power and motivation.

If you think you're getting nowhere with a page, don't worry about it so much. Take a 10 or 30 minute break, do something else you enjoy doing, and forget about the comic. When you feel relaxed and rebuilt, get back to your comic.
These 30 minutes might sound like procrastination again, however, usually, 30 minutes spent wisely for yourself only, equal 2 hours of sitting in front of the comp, trying to get your thing done, not getting anywhere and be so frustrated you decide not to look at it for another day.

Especially since you mentioned you feel tired I suggest you try it out. Anyway, I wish you the best of luck on that matter ;)

Yes it does. :(

But then everything caused me to procrastinate. I think its a mental condition :(

Difficult pages? Not so much.
Coloring? yep.

I've spent couple of days coloring a batch of ten pages and since then three days have passed and I can't color another one, I'm burned out. As much as I like color on my pages, all these repetitive tasks (to get the color on characters as consistent as possible) are getting to me. The good thing is that this makes me experiment with coloring, the bad is that sometimes I get sick of looking at my art and stop working for days.

And I still have 22 pages more to go before I can start working on the fourth chapter.
My next color story will be something I'll be working on in spare time between b&w pages of a more regular title (and most likely will be limited in pagecount and as closed-ended as possible).

I was a major procrastinator back with my old comic, but not so much with Faust. It helps to have a definite updating schedule that I try to keep, so help me God. That helps me get through pages that are not necessarily the most fun to draw.

I'm with Usedbooks on this one. The tough ones get me started early in the week working on it. The one's I'm not excited about I often procrastinate until the night before the update and then have to slave away at it until the wee hours of the morning.

But then, I also have a solid update schedule of once a week that I haven't broken in about 9 months. That fact alone helps me not put it off. I don't want to break my streak. :)

I don't know that it's the difficulty of something that will make me procrastinate as much as making sure elements such as continuity of a scene or trying to get the body language just right are the things that slow me down and easily switch into procrastination.

The devil is in the details and I often feel his pitchfork.

Sometimes...but not too often. More often than not, my health gets in the way. (*sighs*)

Like many others, I do enjoy challenging poses and angles. I did some this week, for an upcoming Due East page. It may be rough doing it but it sure is rewarding when it comes across the way you hoped!

Also, when I get in a real bind: photo reference is my friend! lol!

Yes and no. When a page is challenging I need to think about how to best approach it in terms of layout and camera angles. I don't actually start drawing until I have some idea of how to start. I think in my case it's no so much avoiding the challenge as good ol' fashioned writer's/artist's block.

Yes! That's one of the reasons my VP X page was delayed this week! =3

figuring out what to draw: yes

drawing it: no

choosing what colors: yes

coloring: no

The difficult ones, are the ones I can't wait to draw.

It used to happen to me. I also used to gloss the hard parts over. I didn't want to do that with Lady Luck, and it turns out there are many difficult things for me to draw in there. Now I've gotten good at sitting myself down and getting the page done.