💼 Careercow Andrew Dobson (aka Tom Preston)
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When you look at Dobson's cartoony art, you soon realize he's trying to go for a certain style and moreso, he's thinking his skills for art don't have to exceed that particular style. Hence, we get the balloon-sausage-hybrids that Dobson considers to be fingers and the unshapely malformed lumps he thinks are hands. It's also the source of his bad understanding of anatomy in general. He has stated mutliple times that he thinks his style is sufficient and since he's drawing comics, he doesn't need to be able to do much more.
The fact he needs to understand anatomy first and has to be able to draw really well with details in order to reduce his style flies right above his head. He simply doesn't get that in order to do comic/cartoon you need to have your basics down as well - this is completely alien to him, it seems. On the contrary, doing comics seems to be his go-to excuse for actually NOT getting down the basics of anatomy since "they don't matter anyway" or something and thus everything he draws looks sloppy - even down to the linework!
For how long have people made fun of how Dobearson draws hands? The better part of a decade? At some point, he could have just sat down and practiced instead of sulking and whining about how he doesn't need to be able to draw a hand if he's going for ... well... this 'style'. In order to stylize a hand minimalistically you have to be able to draw it realistically first, otherwise, you will always be bound to use crutches.
It's part of the reason why everything Dobson draws looks so bland, he simply lacks the artistic background to actually sit down and create a unique, interesting style by reducing it from semi-realistic to cartoony. That's why his creations have all the appeal of a very generic "Draw your own Comics!" guideline book and all his works suffer from easily avoidable 'beginner's mistakes'.
And this guy wants to lecture the internet by and large about his stance on renaissance-era anatomy and perspective?
of course there's still artists that only excel at rather basic styles, but they deligently practice those in order to improve themselves... and these styles usually are visually pleasing, minimalistic but still expressive and above all: unique.
Kinda reminds me of a note found on a bit of Steven Universe concept art, it didn't say "draw hands like this because we don't know how to draw them" but "draw hands like this so we can get the anatomy down with as few lines as possible. Even toony hands can betray if the artist knows what they're doing or not. Compare dobby hands to out good friend Jasper here (and Garnet)
These hands ARE simple, they ARE a bit sausage-y but do you notice something else? There's actually a hint of "form" to them. They look like... well hands done in as few lines as possible, not hands that the artist didn't even know how to draw.
Oh yes, that too.
You know what? Drawing kids is hard. Arguably harder to do right than adults
I mean, you wanna study a grown woman's anatomy? Easy done, there's plenty of studies of naked grown-ups around.
But for kids? You rather understandably don't come across that. It basically means that, yeah, you have to practically guess what they look like underneath unless you really can search naked children while feeling clean.
It's especially troublesome since they're not just "mini adults" so you couldn't even study an adult and just shrink it down.
But again, there's pretty good reason why you don't find that stuff. Not even sure there's an alternative either.
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If what he denounces is any indication, and it usually is, he jerks it to rape porn.
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- 29 de Abr, 2014
No no no, it's progressive and feminist porn.
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I still can't believe the Renaissance comment. Someone here mentioned how the baby was drawn as a "mini adult." Yeah, that's actually super goddamn important to understanding the context of the piece. People of the time didn't really see childhood as a thing and treated kids like mini adults. You consistently see this in art of the era. If Dobson paid attention in art history he'd know this. I guess that there weren't enough historical lesbians for him.
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I think it's pretty clear from the quality of his work that Dobson didn't pay attention to anything in college.
Also, there's this where he admits to it:
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I swear one of these days Dobby is going to go full on tomgirl:
Also not by him but Dobby retweeted it:
Do people really talk like this in real life? It's so weird, even weirder than the weeaboos who idolize glorious nippon.
Dobby likes to project his insecurities.
Also not by him but Dobby retweeted it:
Do people really talk like this in real life? It's so weird, even weirder than the weeaboos who idolize glorious nippon.
I think it's pretty clear from the quality of his work that Dobson didn't pay attention to anything in college.
Also, there's this where he admits to it:
Dobby likes to project his insecurities.
Gensdupays
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I've said it before: there are three outcomes for Dobby. Tomgirl, hilariously obnoxious MRA, or just continuing this shit until he says the wrong thing and really fucks up. The last one is easiest so that's what he'll do.
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I'd say fucking up is the most likely, but since no one in that circle actually acknowledges him, I don't know that it would do anything to him.
So probably tomgirl. Only once Dobby admits he has a lesbian soul will he be happy.
So probably tomgirl. Only once Dobby admits he has a lesbian soul will he be happy.
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- 10 de Mar, 2013
Dobby can't win with the SJWs, even if somehow he did get popular I bet he'd suffer from the tall poppy syndrome where another SJW jealous of his sudden success would use his past to make sure it didn't last.
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They use TPS a lot and try to spin anything that talks about how shitty TPS and presenting how no one being better than anyone by force is a bad thing. They don't like that idea.
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I recall he hinted at being gay when he posted a ref he was using for that LGBT Alex Ze Pirate piece for that male character in the comic. The words used made it obvious he was trying to say "I'M SECRETLY A HOMO". So it wouldn't fucking surprise me if he suddenly pretend to come out as trans. That and his man hatred.
He'll probably do it for attention, as a part of a new "SENPAI PLZ NOTICE ME!!!!" episode.
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Dobson is probably the most ironically oblivious artist I've ever seen.I think it's pretty clear from the quality of his work that Dobson didn't pay attention to anything in college.
Also, there's this where he admits to it:
He constantly puts in his comics why he's stagnating, never improve, and doesn't like his craft or attracts criticism, and at the same time seems to blissfully ignore every single person pointing out what he himself admits.
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That's the thing, though: Dobson seems to think he doesn't need to be able to draw hands since he only has to doodle "cartoon-hands" and that's sufficient. Meanwhile, in reality, artists bust their ass to draw hands in a simplified manner that makes sense anatomically. Seriously, making such minimalistic hands not look like a cluster of sausages isn't something you can do without understanding how hands 'work' in an artistic way... and you certainly can't design a simplified version of a hand without understanding the 'language of shapes'. It's really just a tiny difference - the thickness of a line, the exact placement or way it bends - between a cartoon hand and Dobson-brand "cartoon hands".Kinda reminds me of a note found on a bit of Steven Universe concept art, it didn't say "draw hands like this because we don't know how to draw them" but "draw hands like this so we can get the anatomy down with as few lines as possible. Even toony hands can betray if the artist knows what they're doing or not. Compare dobby hands to out good friend Jasper here (and Garnet)
These hands ARE simple, they ARE a bit sausage-y but do you notice something else? There's actually a hint of "form" to them. They look like... well hands done in as few lines as possible, not hands that the artist didn't even know how to draw.
I guess you could go for images of children in underwear or beach-wear or something to use as reference material, but that's still kinda something you don't wanna talk about to non-artists I'd guess. "Yeah, so today I looked at prepubescent girls in bikinis to understand how their bodies are shaped" isn't really a conversation-opener...
Also, there's the possibility of looking up japanese charts for manga artists, there are some that basically offer a depiction of the body for almost every age from toddler to adult... but that's working with already stylized referential material and not necessarily less creepy than looking at photos...
Call me naive, but I'd say imposing certain qualities, perks or quirks upon someone mainly based around their skin-color is kinda racist.
I mean, apparently all it takes to 'educate' this person is 'not being white'. I hate this attitude, as if each and any comment is irrevocably truth since the fingers that typed those lines were a different kind of skin color...
Whenever I see that female character I get a feeling of deja vu, she just seems so much like the design was originally stolen from anime like Hidamari Sketch or Sketchbook... and I don't even know why. And her punk-sidekick-creature is just a walking tumblr stereotype where I can't even fathom what Dobs was trying to do, her malshaped head, her ugly design, it's just awful.
Dobby likes to project his insecurities.
Also the one time Dobs tries to branch out and go for a different style, he picks one that looks washed out, blurry and simply unpleasant (especially when it clashes with an obvious copy-paste like the anatomical study).
Bravo, Dobson. People tell you to try new things to improve your skills and you manage to go for a change that actually is a step back.
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Middle tweet (on my phone) Do people of color even like sycophants like that? I get that they get treated like shit a lot, and that there is a lot in our society that needs to be fixed but... Does white people talking like Goreans (all that self infantalization. Creeps me right the fuck out.) do anything for them? I can just imagine if these (white) people held unlimited socio political power. "Wew, I'd wike to stop poweecee fwom shooting unarmed back men, but I'm just a poow siwwy widdwe white. What can I do? Uh oh. I made doo doo in my pants again." Tldr racial inequality is a serious issue. Act like a fucking adult about it. I pray every day that my generation is going to grow up and prove to be serious, humble, mature administrator types who actually deal with serious issues like social inequality. Not just infantilize themselves to prove that they are good ones.I swear one of these days Dobby is going to go full on tomgirl:
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Also not by him but Dobby retweeted it:
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Do people really talk like this in real life? It's so weird, even weirder than the weeaboos who idolize glorious nippon.
Dobby likes to project his insecurities.
Oh also, the bobs burgers bit... For Gods sake... Sometimes I think Dobs has a sissification fetish. I swear, he's on the verge of breaking into full scale hardcore femdom mode and start going "women are magical goddesses who brutish men must wait upon hand and foot to preserve their divine purity."
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Gensdupays
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Manipulative people love sycophants because they will do anything you tell them do to without question and will only take credit if they fail. They work hard but ask for nothing but a comment like "You're not like the rest of them" in return. It's trollshielding basically.
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The female character looks familiar because she's basically Velma from Scooby Doo.
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- 27 de Sep, 2014
Can not unsee.
Seriously, how did I never realize that? All Dobs did was change her color scheme a bit.
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And you know how Velma is often pegged as a lesbian...?
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