💼 Careercow Andrew Dobson (aka Tom Preston)

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Ryan Rash dijo:
Thanks, Nooky Bear, for definitvely proving that not only do you read these forums, you read MY posts about you. I rather like the ego boost this gives me.

Also, this is the first time I'm hearing of this depression. I bet ten rubles he's just trying to rake in undeserved sympathy.
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I hope I don't come across as a white knight but Dobbs certainly doesn't seem like a happy person by any means although I doubt he's got an official diagnosis or taking medication or anything like that though since he probably would have mentioned it for sympathy before now.
 
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He made a New Year journal, but it's just showcasing his videos drawing which are already shown here:
http://tompreston.deviantart.com/journal/Happy-New-Year-504117623

Anyway, more tweets.
Time for his ranting on his art progress and how he doesn't draw like he used to anymore!
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Teenage angst
So now you've seen these previous art. But hey, THIS is better lol!
Final Fantasy
So cozy
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Dammnn those kids
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Shantae
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WayForward and Fan Service
And time to end this post with his replies to Zoe Quinn!
 
Alan Pardew dijo:
Shantae
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I feel the sudden urge to send Preston this:

But anyway his logic is kind of crazy, he can't draw better art because more realistic art means darker subject matters? If only it were possible to draw art in different ways!

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Not that I'm saying stylized art is worse than realistic art because that's not necessary true, just that Dobbies old art looks way better than his current art.
 
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Ryan Rash dijo:
TotalBiscuit?
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Nah it'd be the league of Evil ex-college students that graduated and now work at Disney because they had any effort/passion put into their work.

Sexy characters = Institutionalized misogyny KEK. Nah, forcing people to sign up for selective service before they can do things like go into further education or vote or not be sent to jail for being a dude so those things can't really even be called "rights" that half of America has? Institutional. Outlawing abortions because MUH BIBLE? Institutional. Sexy character in a video game nobody's forcing you to play? Not institutional fucking learn what words mean.

The sneaking level bit I'd probably play for laughs/anti-frustration features by actually having foes be momentarily distracted by the sexy for a second if caught but that's just me.:P
 
Ryan Rash dijo:
OH, THAT GRIMEY-ASS FUCKER. I KNOW HE DID NOT JUST SHIT ON SHANTAE. 3:<

Also, even as some 3edgy5me shitstain teen, his art back then is better than today.
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He also seems to think that "art that seemed to actually have effort put into it" is going back to 'dark times' as if all highly rendered art has to be depressing. I've seen some cute and quirky art that's had a lot of work put into it like
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It's just excuses with this guy.
 
I got news for Dobson - that old stuff is not "realistic" - at least I can guarantee no art professor would have called it that. It may be more realistic than what he draws now, but I'd call it more detailed or more highly rendered, but not realistic. I think he may be too stupid to understand what MayMay said about how highly rendered =/= depressing.
 
Count groudon dijo:
Because time spent adding more layers is time not spent on not doing art.
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It takes a fraction of a second to make a new layer. It is literally easier than saving a goddamn file.

My initial reaction was that either Dobson doesn't know how to make a new layer or the sight of more than two given layers on any PSD file gives him some kind of sensory overload. After watching him create that Korrasami image, though, the answer becomes obvious.

Behold Dobson's drawing process:

1. Sketch something cartoony
2. Ink the shit out of that motherfucker
3. Scan into computer
4. Adjust the levels until you eliminate any hint of gray and are left with a harsh, jagged black/white image
5. Clean up those jagged black lines a bit so it looks smoother. You're an artist, damn it, you have standards!
6. Now that you've got solid black lines and a bunch of white space it's time to break out the magic wand
7. Your inking already delineated the line that separates light from dark, so now all you need to do is select an empty white space with the wand and fill the selected area with the appropriate color. You fill it via the paint bucket.
8. Keep it all on a single layer so that the color never goes outside the lines
9. It's digital paint-by-numbers
10. Shadows are all the same color, right? Like, a blue tint will work for an entire character regardless if what you're shading is their green clothing or pale hands, correct? Good? Good.
11. Just, fuck me, he paints new borders, selects the area inside, and paint bucket. He only ever uses the paint brush to make borders.
12. After some more shortcuts (including copy/pasting an insignia onto a playing chip instead of drawing it himself) you've got something that DA will enjoy.
13. Infinite pageviews

I have to wonder how it takes him forever to get a commission finished. This is a quick, easy process and once the image is scanned to your hard drive you could finish it within a few hours. There isn't even anything to streamline because Dobson's comprised his entire process around the methods that will give him the most results in as little time as possible. If I was waiting for a commission and saw that video I'd be livid.
 
Remember: Andrew Dobson is the man who made at least three tutorials on how to use the fill bucket in Photoshop. In his mind, this is painstaking effort.
 
CuriousBystander dijo:
Has anyone else noticed it looks like there are two nuclear explosions going off in the background? What the hell are those supposed to be?
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I think they're supposed to be trees? That are blurred to keep the focus on the characters, to show that the trees are ethereal because they're in the "spirit world", or because Dobson didn't want to take the time to draw a detailed background?

And if that IS supposed to be the Spirit World, then my God, Dobson, you really dropped the ball.
 
What kind of fucking idiot do you have to be to not use more than one layer when you're doing art. What kind of brain damage to you have to get.
I still can't beleive this so I'm going back and watching it again.
EDIT: Oh my God. He actually did the color and lineart on the same fucking layer. This blows my mind so much, just like... Wat.
The drawing itself is actaully fairly decent especially for Dobson standards. Everything else is so inexcusably shit. Like the background is so fucking crap, that's the kind of shit I pulled when I was just starting on backgrounds, not the kind of shit a man who claims to be a professional should be doing.
Also, nice copy pasting the designs on those game pieces, Dobbles.
 
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