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While Dobson is no genius, he clearly had some innate talent. He has largely fucked it away through laziness and hostility to criticism.
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While Dobson is no genius, he clearly had some innate talent. He has largely fucked it away through laziness and hostility to criticism.
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That's what makes it so frustrating to me. I doubt people would give 2 shits if he was just another bad artist who was doing it for fun instead of having Dob's ego over his own laziness.
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- 9 de Sep, 2013
It didn't look half bad until he started shading. The way he made the twitter balloon was just awful, too.
I know this is old and has probably been posted in this thread before (I think it's on the front page?), but by god he hasn't changed a bit.
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- 1 de Oct, 2013
Yeah, it really does look like Dobbs took a cue from Tim Buckley for that balloon. And at this point, I really doubt he's ever going to shade in anything but black.
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- 27 de Sep, 2014
As has been pointed out, Dobson isn't a terribad artist, there's a few things he's well capable of doing but it all boils down to his unwillingness to improve anything that he's bad at.
Spice that up with his attitude towards criticism and his incredibly nasty, condescending personality and you have a recipe for failure.
Really, if Dobson was just another semi-professional cartoonist who's not good enough to have a break-through but not bad enough to completely drop off the internet's radar, noone would bat an eye at him.
If he was just humbly making his comics, maybe write a tweet or blog entry about stuff that annoys him, we wouldn't be here.
But Dobson is a pompous, hypocritical jerk that insults the few fans he still has and values whining on twitter higher than his chosen line of work.
And that's the image we get before we even take a look at his work.
Look at his comics, what do you see?
In theory, SYAC could be an entertaining strip about the trials and tribulations of doing comic art, but it's just a soapbox for Dobsons inflated ego and a platform to make horrible, horrible strawman-comics about whatever pissed off Dobson. Oftentimes it's hypocritical, self-servicing, self-righteous bullshit, that has nothing to do with Dobson being an artist. I mean, the guy tried to chastise the designer of Dragon's Crown and Hideo fucking Kojima. Kojima could fling his own feces at a wall and it would somehow turn out to become a groundbreaking video game with a cult following. And Dobson, a guy who's never really been employed in his chosen line of work, wants to tell him what he can and can't do. In his comic about being a cartoonist.
Alex ze Pirate? Don't even get me started. If SYAC is unremarkable and generic in terms of looks, then AzP is pretty much stryofoam on white toast levels of bland.
The characters are pretty much either really boring, overused stereotypes (without any deviation to make them memorable) or they are outright stolen from other works. The entire cast is pretty much Ranma shoved into a chinese knock-off One Piece setting.
Apparently, Dobson doesn't need to be the perfect artist cause his focus is more on telling a story (his own words!) and now look at his Magnum Opus that is AzP:
It's a really lame, derivative work devoid of any creativity whatsoever. It's also a comic without a real story. It's just "Here's a bunch of whacky characters doing pirate stuff... and stuff."
And then there's minor stuff that didn't go nowhere, like his story about some detective douchebag, his story about lipstick-lesbians and his story about some guy travelling to a different world or something.
Nah, Dobson isn't completely bad at art, but he's not that good either. There's a lot of webcomic artists and hobby enthusiasts that give him a run for his money. And looking on his ability to tell a story, create interesting worlds and memorable characters: He outright sucks at it.
again: sorry for the wall of text 
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Dobson only wishes anime were ending. His hatred would be soothed and he'd have more time to bitch on Twitter.
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Dobson's fursona as The Mad Hatter. Check out that smug tongue action. Hands bigger than the feet.
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- 3 de Feb, 2013
Isn't the creator of Evangelion kind of a nut?
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This was from two days ago but thought it would be worth sharing anyway.
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Dobson's fursona as The Mad Hatter. Check out that smug tongue action. Hands bigger than the feet.
WHAT IN THE EVERLIVING FUCK ARE HIS HANDS DOING???!?!?!?!??
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I find it to be an odd pose for that reason and why are they doing exactly the same thing? He could have at least had the other arm do something else or use some kind of negative space there.
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- 23 de Jun, 2013
"The problems I face are shared by many people"
Quoted for humour
Quoted for humour
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- 25 de Feb, 2013
Dobson's fursona as The Mad Hatter. Check out that smug tongue action. Hands bigger than the feet.
Wrong Mad Hatter Dobbers. It should look more like this one.
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- 23 de Feb, 2013
Dobberino needs to go back to that thing everyone did when they were kids, where the hands in every drawing would conveniently be behind the back, or covered by something.
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- 9 de Nov, 2014
Page 300 woo.
The background is horrid. DeviantArt 101.
The background is horrid. DeviantArt 101.
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- 22 de Mayo, 2015
In case I didn't get it across earlier, my question was meant to be somewhat rhetorical. I know Dobson's issue is his whiny, egoistical attitude more than his art skills. What I imagine is that he's bitter that he couldn't get himself into some prestigious animation company like his roommate Chesworth and can't deal with the fact that he wasn't up to the task yet. You know, some kind of entitlement mentality like spoiled kids have.
In addition, I have a difficult time taking his current pro-social justice pretensions at face value. It's all right for cartoonists to have political slants, otherwise we wouldn't have political cartoons. But I can't take his anti-sexualization attitude at face value after learning about his inflation-porn phase. I think he's doing it mostly because social justice has become a major fad in the tumblr age, and he wants to sell himself to a new, younger crowd. If he can't win the other artists over, maybe the SJW kids will support him, right?
In addition, I have a difficult time taking his current pro-social justice pretensions at face value. It's all right for cartoonists to have political slants, otherwise we wouldn't have political cartoons. But I can't take his anti-sexualization attitude at face value after learning about his inflation-porn phase. I think he's doing it mostly because social justice has become a major fad in the tumblr age, and he wants to sell himself to a new, younger crowd. If he can't win the other artists over, maybe the SJW kids will support him, right?
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- 9 de Feb, 2015
I like that had he stuck to anime, Dobby would fit the bill for the fat, balding, pervy otaku stereotype. The same stereotype Anno has such a huge hateboner for.
I know hands are hard to draw but come onDobson's fursona as The Mad Hatter. Check out that smug tongue action. Hands bigger than the feet.
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PICTURED: A modern self portrait of Dobson today.
ALSO PICTURED: The average response that Dobson makes to the average viewer of his artwork, whether it be a troll, a complimenter, a critic, or anyone, really.Dobson's fursona as The Mad Hatter. Check out that smug tongue action. Hands bigger than the feet.
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