💼 Careercow Andrew Dobson (aka Tom Preston)

Estado
No está abierto para más respuestas.
i should change my line of work to editing web comics to make the
Untitled-1 copy.PNG
m less shit
 
TheIceCreamMan dijo:
Alright haha, so how about this: do you have any recommendations for starter supplies for budding young artistes??? :)
Presiona para expandir...
A nice book-bound sketchbook for the best drawings, and a cheap sketchbook for doodling or experimenting, a pencil set that ranges from at least 5B to 4H pencils, a good eraser, a kneeded rubber eraser, and this book is a great place to start teaching yourself.
 
It's never too late to draw, as long as you have the passion and drive to improve at it. Just take a look at this guy's improvement. Started out with something of this quality, then ended up with something like this because he listened to people's criticisms and advice, plus he didn't stop drawing. Bottom line is, don't be a Dobson. He's pretty much anything an artist should NOT be. If you want to draw, draw. There are a bunch of books you can buy(as posted above) and tutorials online that you can check to start up with. /offtopic
 
Also don't forget, the worst thing an artist can be isn't bad but stagnant. Think of it like movies, the bad ones are good for a laugh, WTF value or something to really rip into and learn a few things in the process. Either way, you can get something from crap. Good movies are, well, obviously good. Impressive, emotive and imaginative ect.
But Mediocre movies? B-O-R-I-N-G. They're basically bad movies but without the redeeming factors above.

Also holy shit Dobby's so irrelevant that we've just practically dropped the subject of him from his own thread. Symbolic!
 
Dobson's style looks like he's trying to copy something, but I can't put my finger on it. I've never been a fan of artists that copy most newspaper comic artists.

I've been trying to improve my art because it's something that I've wanted to do since I was a very small child. I've been at it for roughly a year now. I'm only slightly better. My tablet art looks terrible and my sketches still barely have any shading. But I listen. More than Dobby ever did. He'll be at stick figures in a few years.
 
I typically do my best work- or dedicate a lot of time to- drawings that I do during class on scratch sheets. I'm too hesitant to fuck up nice paper. I brought a nice sketchbook and was too antsy to draw the first sketch. (When I was in an anatomy art class, one girl said that she hated drawing people she knew because when she saw them irl she saw them as her skewed drawings.) My advice is to join an intro art class - it's interesting to have like-minded people around you, and the pressure helps if you're hesitant.

To stray back on topic, I literally laughed aloud about the fucking background in that Korrasami drawing. I mean, holy shit. What if he was actually just diddling with us as some kind of ironic "social experiment"?
 
Soradawn dijo:
The shadows in his art always seem like he's just using a black swatch. It's just so unprofessional and gaudy. But given his apparent and obvious laziness, why should that even be a surprise.
Presiona para expandir...

Oh I used to do that.
Key word being used to.

It doesn't look too bad on colours like red but as that pic with the mutant nose cat shows, yellow does not darken well and just turns a putrid green/yellow mix.

Heck, everything I've seen on doing shading points out that it's better to do it with a dark colour with layer modes (multiply or shade/shad&lumi for sai users like myself) or something I've been meaning to try: shading with a colour that matches the scene (like dark orange or purple in a sunset scene or something). Those layer modes also help balance out the shading so you don't get another problem with that pic: The shading barely showing up on parts (like the jeans) while being glaringly hideous on other parts.

EDIT: If anything, that makes Dobby even LAZIER. He does colours on a digital program so literally all he has to do is use a deep blue or something and set to multiply and it'd look so much better already.
 
John Titor dijo:
To prospective artists:
http://artfag.hubpages.com/hub/how-to-draw-learn

Do videos of Dobson drawing exist? I'm curious to see what his process is and I think those stick figures he did was an awful attempt at gesture drawing.
Presiona para expandir...
Don't think he's ever bothered showing it via video, but there is a comic that gives us a basic (though really dumb) idea about it:
syac___soulless_byproduct_by_tompreston-d3czy3b.jpg

Besides that, no idea. I think we'd all like to know, but I doubt he'll ever tell us.
 
Estado
No está abierto para más respuestas.
Atrás
Top Abajo