💼 Careercow Andrew Dobson (aka Tom Preston)
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- 25 de Mar, 2015
Someone pointed it out a while back, but one thing Dobson's artwork has is that everyone always looks really, really grumpy. Like, all of his smiles look forced and downright unsettling but whenever he draws someone being annoyed, smug, or just plain irritated? Almost perfect (for Dobson anyway).
It's like the guy is incapable of expressing joy.
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- 23 de Feb, 2015
I feel like somewhere he has an account reminiscent of catty n
we just haven't found it yet because the Internet is a cesspool of exceptional individuals
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- 1 de Oct, 2013
Or he's trying his damnedest to keep it a secret. But we all know that can't be it.
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Stritcly speaking, for what kind of artwork he does do, he doesn't need anything more advanced than a basic wacom tablet (bamboo) or a 3rd party tablet (monoprice's are good for the price). Scanning in sketches is fine. His tools are absolutely fine for the type of artwork he does. Talented people can stretch their tools pretty far if they want to or need to and produce some awesome stuff.
The issue really isn't his tools, its his work ethic really. I'm not even really gonna equate talent into that because if he actually put effort into it, he could improve on his talent a lot. He just doesn't want to. He's complacent and content with where he's at, which would be okay if he was just some general hobbyist that likes to doodle and make the occasional dumb comic strip, but he's trying to make money off of it, which is where I draw the line from "complacent hobbyist" to "people are fucking pay you for this shit, pull your fucking head out".
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- 25 de Mar, 2015
One of his old art accounts. Dobson had a huge inflation fetish and he drew lots of, uhhh... works reflecting it.
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- 18 de Abr, 2013
Most of which involved young girls dying horrific deaths via being inflated until they explode. Y'know, typical art you'd expect from a staunch feminist
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- 3 de Feb, 2013
Everyone in the Dobbieverse has soggy knees.
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- 8 de Jun, 2015
Somewhere a dozen or so pages back (or maybe a hundred, it's been a haul) someone theorized that Dobson just has never been able to get over the fact that although he broke with an early lead in the artistic talent department, everyone else caught up, if not, passed him, and here he is in that life race, 300 laps later, STILL either in massive denial or just massive butthurt about that fact and he rails about the indignity of it all as the field laps him again.
He needs to either pick up the pace, or park the car.
I can kind of understand it. I was a somewhat artistically gifted person in the 2nd and 3rd grades, I just found drawing came naturally to me. My art teacher said so, my other teachers said so, my classmates said so, it was nice to be GOOD at something. But then, about High School, I hit a roadblock in my style and, at the same time, other people who had spent the last 10 years working their craft were suddenly better than me, a LOT better. Even my brother, who'd I always easily outdrew, was better. Not only better, but a PUBLISHED animator, people were PAYING for his stuff, enough that he could live on his own and independently before I could.
That was a real downer, realizing that my special talent wasn't so special or so talented anymore. I can understand the frustration and the disenchantment when everyone blows by you while you're stalled out. But I didn't curl up and die. I kept working at it and you know what? I got better. Not great, but better. Enough that you can put my stuff from 8 years ago next to this and be convinced I didn't do the earlier piece. And all that work has paid off, I get people who honestly like my stuff, but I know my limits, I don't think that means I'm going to be putting anyone out of business if I just hang out a shingle and start accepting commissions.
Yeah, I'm just a hobby artist, I'll never be a paid professional, I don't have the raw skill, or the ability to work good enough FAST enough to meet a production schedule, but that's okay for me, I'm happy with where I am now and that I can improve. And most importantly, I learned to stop being a perfectionist and just have some fun. Art is supposed to be FUN, when it stops being fun, it's time to stop tormenting yourself.
Dobson is still just angry at the art world for getting better while he got complacent. And nothing I've seen from him seems to indicate he's even aware that's the problem.
Especially not that "I only want to work on stuff that inspires" , if it ain't epic, it ain't worth it.
That's either delusional thinking, or an excuse for why he can't be bothered with requests for that which is "beneath" him. He just cannot admit that he's NOT the head of the pack like he was in school where he could shake drawings out of his sleeve that everyone would be impressed with, and rightly so, coming from someone who was, 12, but you aren't 12 anymore buddy.
It's this toxic superiority that I think causes most of the problems. If he were a more amicable person, I doubt we'd pick apart his work for it's flaws like we do. But because he's so high on himself and low on others, we're GOING to point out his glaring anatomy flaws and lazy sausage fingers. If he was more chill and possibly a better joke writer, we'd probably never have cared if he'd just done stick figures a 'la XKCD.
He needs to either pick up the pace, or park the car.
I can kind of understand it. I was a somewhat artistically gifted person in the 2nd and 3rd grades, I just found drawing came naturally to me. My art teacher said so, my other teachers said so, my classmates said so, it was nice to be GOOD at something. But then, about High School, I hit a roadblock in my style and, at the same time, other people who had spent the last 10 years working their craft were suddenly better than me, a LOT better. Even my brother, who'd I always easily outdrew, was better. Not only better, but a PUBLISHED animator, people were PAYING for his stuff, enough that he could live on his own and independently before I could.
That was a real downer, realizing that my special talent wasn't so special or so talented anymore. I can understand the frustration and the disenchantment when everyone blows by you while you're stalled out. But I didn't curl up and die. I kept working at it and you know what? I got better. Not great, but better. Enough that you can put my stuff from 8 years ago next to this and be convinced I didn't do the earlier piece. And all that work has paid off, I get people who honestly like my stuff, but I know my limits, I don't think that means I'm going to be putting anyone out of business if I just hang out a shingle and start accepting commissions.
Yeah, I'm just a hobby artist, I'll never be a paid professional, I don't have the raw skill, or the ability to work good enough FAST enough to meet a production schedule, but that's okay for me, I'm happy with where I am now and that I can improve. And most importantly, I learned to stop being a perfectionist and just have some fun. Art is supposed to be FUN, when it stops being fun, it's time to stop tormenting yourself.
Dobson is still just angry at the art world for getting better while he got complacent. And nothing I've seen from him seems to indicate he's even aware that's the problem.
Especially not that "I only want to work on stuff that inspires" , if it ain't epic, it ain't worth it.
That's either delusional thinking, or an excuse for why he can't be bothered with requests for that which is "beneath" him. He just cannot admit that he's NOT the head of the pack like he was in school where he could shake drawings out of his sleeve that everyone would be impressed with, and rightly so, coming from someone who was, 12, but you aren't 12 anymore buddy.
It's this toxic superiority that I think causes most of the problems. If he were a more amicable person, I doubt we'd pick apart his work for it's flaws like we do. But because he's so high on himself and low on others, we're GOING to point out his glaring anatomy flaws and lazy sausage fingers. If he was more chill and possibly a better joke writer, we'd probably never have cared if he'd just done stick figures a 'la XKCD.
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- 6 de Nov, 2014
As Curt Sibling stated, he is a cartoonist who forgot to laugh.
His Korra+Asami picture is a vivid example. Korra looks extremely awkward and Asami looks smug and high, when it was supposed to be them preparing for a wedding. Yes, Dobbie made Korra look like she wants to make a run for it, and he even put stink lines on her. I'm not sure why, maybe its perfume? Still the picture is anything but a happy couple.
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- 16 de Jun, 2014
I can't imagine Dobson working for Disney...
I figure I'd go something like this
Day 1: Disney gives Dobson the chance to become the best (m)animator, he has to improve, but has little time to do it. If he wants to stay he must be swift as a coursing river,with all the force of a great typhoon, with all the strength of a raging fire, and mysterious as the dark side of the moon.
Day 2: He pisses off his fellow employees. He claimsthey threw a radio in a toilet and made him fish it out it wasn't his fault, goes to his boss (who is in an important meeting and shouldn't be messed with) he barges in to the meeting room to complain about the immature work environment. His boss tells him that he'd look into it because he needed Dobson to shut up so he could continue the meeting in peace, warning him that if it every happened again his ass would be grass.
Day 3: He sees his fellow employees working and deep down he notices that they are much better than he could ever hope to be, but his unwarranted self importance tells him otherwise. He does his usual thing, taking as many short cuts as he can (with the help of his Fursona) until he's caught and called out for it looking like shit.
Day 4: His fellow employees despised him, they throw things at him, spoiled children's book endings, celebrated Hanukkah instead of Christmas, until finally someone sprayed him in the face with a squirt bottle. He claims he developed PTSD from that last incident but everyone knew he was full of shit.
Day 5: He gets so pissed he flips everyone off, all of the connections he'ddestroyed made went up in smokes. His bridges were permanently burned.
Day 6: He, in what he believes to be no fault of his own, is told to leave and never come back. He goes to twitter to whine and then goes to play Splatoon for two days straight.
After Dobson's gone the staff celebrate, the boss goes to his desk and checks it over to make sure it's empty, only to find some of Dobson's lesbian and inflation art in one of the drawers. Now, it's nothing he hasn't seen before but it unsettles him greatly. "Everyone," he says to his employees, "bonfire at my place."
(Edited because I messed up the gifs)
I suppose I should really thank Dobson for giving me the opportunity to photoshop things, it's hella fun and I love it so much
Wonder what he's up to today, I hope he really is getting help though.
I figure I'd go something like this
Day 1: Disney gives Dobson the chance to become the best (m)animator, he has to improve, but has little time to do it. If he wants to stay he must be swift as a coursing river,with all the force of a great typhoon, with all the strength of a raging fire, and mysterious as the dark side of the moon.
Day 2: He pisses off his fellow employees. He claims
Day 3: He sees his fellow employees working and deep down he notices that they are much better than he could ever hope to be, but his unwarranted self importance tells him otherwise. He does his usual thing, taking as many short cuts as he can (with the help of his Fursona) until he's caught and called out for it looking like shit.
Day 4: His fellow employees despised him, they throw things at him, spoiled children's book endings, celebrated Hanukkah instead of Christmas, until finally someone sprayed him in the face with a squirt bottle. He claims he developed PTSD from that last incident but everyone knew he was full of shit.
Day 5: He gets so pissed he flips everyone off, all of the connections he'd
Day 6: He, in what he believes to be no fault of his own, is told to leave and never come back. He goes to twitter to whine and then goes to play Splatoon for two days straight.
After Dobson's gone the staff celebrate, the boss goes to his desk and checks it over to make sure it's empty, only to find some of Dobson's lesbian and inflation art in one of the drawers. Now, it's nothing he hasn't seen before but it unsettles him greatly. "Everyone," he says to his employees, "bonfire at my place."
I suppose I should really thank Dobson for giving me the opportunity to photoshop things, it's hella fun and I love it so much
Wonder what he's up to today, I hope he really is getting help though.
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Gothicserpent
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- 29 de Mayo, 2014
Playing Splatoon and jacking it to Inkling inflation porn.I can't imagine Dobson working for Disney...
I imagine I'd go something like this
(Edited because I messed up the gifs)Ver archivo adjunto 36758
Day 1: Disney gives Dobson the chance to become the best (m)animator, he has to improve, but has little time to do it. If he wants to stay he must be swift as a coursing river,with all the force of a great typhoon with all the strength of a raging fire, and mysterious as the dark side of the moon.
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Day 2: He pisses off his fellow employees. He claimsthey threw a radio in a toilet and made him fish it outit wasn't his fault, goes to his boss (who is in an important meeting and shouldn't be messed with) he barges in to the meeting room to complain about the immature work environment. His boss told him that he'd look into it because he needed Dobson to shut up so he could continue the meeting in peace, warning him that if it every happened again his ass would be grass.
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Day 3: He sees his fellow employees working and deep down he notices that they are much better than he could ever hope to be, but his unwarranted self importance tells him otherwise. He does his usual thing, taking as many short cuts as he can (with the help of his Fursona) until he's caught and called out for it looking like shit.
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Day 4: His fellow employees despised him, they throw things at him, spoiled children's book endings, celebrate they celebrated Hanukkah instead of Christmas, until finally someone sprayed him in the face with a squirt bottle. He claims he developed PTSD from that last incident but everyone knew he was full of shit.
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Day 5: He gets so pissed he flips everyone off, all of the connections he'ddestroyedmade went up in smokes. His bridges were permanently burned.
Ver archivo adjunto 36763
Day 6: He, in what he believes to be no fault of his own, is told to leave and never come back. He goes to twitter to whine and then goes to play Splatoon for two days straight.
After Dobson's gone the staff celebrate, the boss goes to his desk and checks it over to make sure it's empty, only to find some of Dobson's lesbian and inflation art in one of the drawers. Now, it's nothing he hasn't seen before but it unsettles him greatly. "Everyone," he says to his employees, "bonfire at my place."
I suppose I should really thank Dobson for giving me the opportunity to photoshop things, it's hella fun and I love it so much
Wonder what he's up to today, I hope he really is getting help though.
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- 15 de Feb, 2015
Dobby had time to update his Patreon.
"Drew this before my recent health problems. Haven't had a chance to upload it until now."
"Drew this before my recent health problems. Haven't had a chance to upload it until now."
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- 8 de Jul, 2015
But what if the man's opinion is that Dob Bear's completely ripping people off by drawing mediocre art at high prices, Dobbie? You can't defend a 4 month turnaround that looks like some random fanart off furaffinity, even if somehow you use some sort of mental gymnastics to defend your online behaviour by some crazy stretch, there's no way you can deny that he has shady tactics. Tsk tsk.
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- 13 de Abr, 2015
Did he copypaste those syringes?
I always thought the "makes me wanna punch him" reactions to Dobs's art was only hyperbole, but just by looking at this strip I feel a little more violent than before. The faces, the poses...
I always thought the "makes me wanna punch him" reactions to Dobs's art was only hyperbole, but just by looking at this strip I feel a little more violent than before. The faces, the poses...
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My recent health problems. 
Dobby, you don't have cancer. You chimped out about your inflation porn.
And why does he draws his bearsona at conventions, when doesn't go, he doesn't interact with his "fans," and especially wouldn't deal with a "fan" when said "fan" would angrily disagree with him?
Waiting for "my patreon has been breached" whining.
Dobby, you don't have cancer. You chimped out about your inflation porn.And why does he draws his bearsona at conventions, when doesn't go, he doesn't interact with his "fans," and especially wouldn't deal with a "fan" when said "fan" would angrily disagree with him?
Waiting for "my patreon has been breached" whining.
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- 28 de Dic, 2014
Dobby had time to update his Patreon.
"Drew this before my recent health problems. Haven't had a chance to upload it until now."
Except it should be the blue bear chimping out when someone disagrees with him, as well as claiming to have PTSD from it.
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