💼 Careercow Andrew Dobson (aka Tom Preston)

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He's against using anime art styles, yet tells critics to look up an oldschool anime to understand his reference.

And does that mean we can drive feminists away by throwing beans at them?
 
Alan Pardew dijo:
https://twitter.com/ADobsonComics/status/509584481544863744



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Fuck it, I'm critiquing this image.

Problem one: I can't really tell what's going on in this picture. On the one hand, you have Alex posed smugly like she's about to triumph over something, and her crew members are throwing confetti (or is that rice?). On the other hand, her crew looks pissed or stressed about something, while Alex looks really smug. Are they sarcastically throwing confetti for her? Did she threaten to kill their families if they didn't? If this is a moment that calls for confetti, why are they so bothered?

Problem two: The shading and composition. Okay, clearly the hole in the wall is supposed to be the light source, as seen by the glowing yellow sky and the fact that Alex is back-lit. But shouldn't the wall also be back-lit? It's hard to tell that this is a defined light source when the wall is brighter than the light source. The area inside the walls should be darker, with light spilling onto the floor and the rubble, but not much else.

Also, the two crew members don't have consistent shading. Pissbaby-boy has his shadows on the left and Lesbian-rapist has her shadows on the right. They share the same light source so there's no reason to indicate that their shading is coming from a different direction.

Finally, Alex's shadow on the floor isn't shaped like her. I don't really get what he was going for there.

Problem three: The color scheme is atrocious. It suffers from the same problem as Disneyfan01's earlier works in the fact that they just decide "this part is this color" and they pick the brightest version of this color that they can. Dobson just decides "this kid is blonde and his jeans are blue" so he goes with bright yellow and bright blue.

He doesn't set the mood with his light and shadows either. Light has color, and in that regard so does shadow. He didn't have to stick with white and grey. For instance, a yellow light-source could go well with shadows that are tinted purple, and because of that he could narrow his color pallet to be closer in ranges of those two colors.

Basically I'm talking about doing something like this. (This was a five minute edit by the way.)
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telegramsamo dijo:
Is it just me, or do all three of them have the same face? Without breasts and long hair his female characters would clearly be guys.
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Side effect of drawing, some artists (including a few professional ones) tend to have some characters share the same face. Difference with that though is they still attempt to try and make them unique (with hair styles, head shape or slight alteration of a facial feature).

Dobson on the other hand... Not so much. In fact outside of the bear and Pam, everyone has almost the exact same face regardless of gender.
 
The problem I have with Preston's pictures is it's all so half-arsed. He's got no style of his own and his pictures have no peripheral details to make them interesting. Everything is just so flat because he just seems to have gone with his first instinct and tried to finish the picture as quickly as possible. It's all so derivative, but then again, he obviously cant be bothered to think of any good character designs or situations.

In short- No Passion+No Effort=Bad Art.

Maybe if the spent less time moaning on twitter and more time drawing then he'd be better off.
 
Here come the feminists to tear down your patriarchy! BAM!
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I can't be the only person who thinks that sounds just like something Homer would say sarcastically to rant about something. It sounds like a line from a lame Captain Planet-esque 90's cartoon. :lol:
 
Joe Middleton dijo:
Maybe if the spent less time moaning on twitter and more time drawing then he'd be better off.
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It's not even that. He just doesn't put in effort to what he draws, and it just gets even worse as time goes on. It's why he gets pissed off when "trolls and haters" tell him his art was better in college. Because he actually still had potential and was obviously putting effort into his drawings. These days he doesn't care because all of his young, misguided fans line up to praise him no matter what little effort he puts out, short of actual stick figures.
 
MysticMisty dijo:
It's not even that. He just doesn't put in effort to what he draws, and it just gets even worse as tim.'e goes on. It's why he gets pissed off when "trolls and haters" tell him his art was better in college. Because he actually still had potential and was obviously putting effort into his drawings. These days he doesn't care because all of his young, misguided fans line up to praise him no matter what little effort he puts out, short of actual stick figures.
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At this point I wonder what he gets out of it. I never see him praise his fans or thank his fans in anyway. He spends most of his time in the comics and on twitter calling out 'haters.' Does he make much/any money from his comics?
 
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