💼 Careercow Andrew Dobson (aka Tom Preston)

[Dudeofteenage]

Who keeps demanding all these Dobbear cosplays? Are his fans demanding them? It doesn't seem like anyone would be interested in these apart from him.

Yeah, that's the irony. He wants to pander, but he's hilariously bad at it. I'm repeating myself, but self-insert fursona cosplay art is like the dictionary definition of "Something nobody else would ever want to see, let alone pay for".

 

[Bugaboo]

Dobbles bear isn't like Mickey Mouse were he's a versitile character so he can dress up like a lot of characters. See Mickey was designed to be as likeable as possible while Dobbles bear is the most punchable character ever devised

 

[Gensdupays]

Dobson's fursona as The Mad Hatter. Check out that smug tongue action. Hands bigger than the feet.

Those hands are broken. And banana feet stopped being acceptable 40 years ago, Dobson. Is that supposed to be a tooth? Does Dobby bear only have one tooth after the rest were punched out? Now I really want to see a Dobson landscape.

And as for Dobby's anime hate, it's nothing new. There's a whole segment of Western hack artists who come up with excuses to shit on Japan to an absurd degree, partially because they see the success of it as somehow making them unable to succeed. Meanwhile, Dobson draws like a cartoonist who would have been rejected by 1970's Hanna Barbera.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Dobson's fursona as The Mad Hatter. Check out that smug tongue action. Hands bigger than the feet.

I don't mind exaggeration (seeing as the Mad Hatter he's referencing has the giant hands/small feet deal going on too), but good god is this horrifying. Where do I even start? The hands in those unexplainable poses? The ugly expression he's pulling off? The fact that he's not exaggerated enough? It's just too bad to even start talking about.

 

[Stud2Stud]

[MEDIA=twitter]602836273502425088[/MEDIA]Dobson only wishes anime were ending. His hatred would be soothed and he'd have more time to bitch on Twitter.

Miyazaki pretty much said the same thing some years ago. While I'm an anime enthusiast, I haven't kept up with things, but it does seem Anime is kinda sorta stagnating. There have been really good shows in the recent past (or so I think), but a lot more seems to be rather unremarkable stuff.
The weird thing? If my memory serves me correctly, Hayao Miyazaki said anime is desperately trying to find a new "Evangelion" (which was made by Hideaki Anno) to rejuvinate the scene. An anime that hits the entire fandom like sledgehammer and stirrs up some new things. Strange to see Anno say something similar.
Be that as it may, why should Dobson care? I thought he hated Anime since people laughed at one of his favorite shows or something.

Dobson's fursona as The Mad Hatter. Check out that smug tongue action. Hands bigger than the feet.

That left hand looks like a blue headcrab and he still seems to shade by using a layer of dark grey, making the contrast look somewhat dull.
But what really gets me is the background. Usually, we shit on him for not doing a background, so it feels weird to shit on him for using one... but for fuck's sake: what the hell? Somehow, this thing doesn't work out the slightest.
What is the bear standing on? A table, I guess? But having the dark green hedge be exactly parallel to the line of the table makes a really dull composition. The hedge (or whatever it is supposed to be) looks really weird, especially with the fog and I have literally no clue what's up with the bright dots in what I assume to be a nightsky.
If the ugly ground is supposed to be a table, Dobson should have placed a fuckton of cups, plates and teapots on it... since, you know, that's kind of what the table looked like in the movie.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

I feel like part of the problem with the background is that it's super blurry, while the character is more crisp and flat. I suck at backgrounds too, but what I would do is have black lines defining the mat and even a few for the mountains. Those lines would anchor the background to the character more. Come to think of it, foggy mountains are a weird setting for this anyway. I would put him in a garden or by a tea-table or something.

That would all require effort though.

 

[Skeletor]

I normally don't comment on Dobson's drawings because I don't draw myself and sometimes I think people get a bit nitpicky, but good lord, that pose is distractingly bad. Compare with the original:

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[Jewelsmakerguy]

I normally don't comment on Dobson's drawings because I don't draw myself and sometimes I think people get a bit nitpicky, but good lord, that pose is distractingly bad. Compare with the original:

https://sneed-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d1/b1/58/d1b158c7892f593424e31682e3e6fac6.jpg

Looking at both this and Dobsy, it's clear the pose in his picture looks nothing like the one above. Because I'm more than certain that was supposed to be his intention.

Also, I keep noticing that he never anti-aliases his line art. If anything, that's a huge reason (aside from the poor anatomy and ugly expressions) that his art looks like a kid's first serious attempt. If he ever wanted to smoothen it out, he could have easily downloaded this little line smoothing plug-in for free after registering. Then again, the company who made the plug in makes anime, and Dobsy hates trying something new, so who am I to say?

 

[AnOminous]

I normally don't comment on Dobson's drawings because I don't draw myself and sometimes I think people get a bit nitpicky, but good lord, that pose is distractingly bad. Compare with the original:

https://sneed-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d1/b1/58/d1b158c7892f593424e31682e3e6fac6.jpg

I didn't even recognize it, and it's a very popular picture from the Disney movie. It's about the first hit on Google Images for Disney Mad Hatter.

That's just how bad Dobson's imitation was. He'd have done better just tracing. He might have done just that with the hands, which don't go with the body of his ugly-ass stupid-looking fursona.

But where it really sucks is the facial expression. The original looks zany and, well, mad. But it's a goofy, benevolent kind of insanity, the Mad Hatter Disnified.

Dobson's just has the usual smug, shit-eating expression, and it looks like it's saying "fuck you" and sticking its tongue out at you.

 

[SuperFilter]

Be that as it may, why should Dobson care? I thought he hated Anime since people laughed at one of his favorite shows or something.

We live in an age where people love nothing more than finding excuses to talk about things they don't like, as opposed to, you know, talking about things they enjoy. Dobby is certainly no exception.
I do wonder what his favorite anime was. If it got laughed at enough for him to quit japanimation period, it must've been something else.

 

[ViolentGiant]

Dobson's fursona as The Mad Hatter. Check out that smug tongue action. Hands bigger than the feet.

The background looks like two gargantuan, mint-flavored ice cream sandwiches rising triumphantly from the landscape.

 

[Too Many Crooks]

[MEDIA=twitter]602836273502425088[/MEDIA]Dobson only wishes anime were ending. His hatred would be soothed and he'd have more time to bitch on Twitter.

Indeed, it's bullshit. Japanese animation is the same as it ever was.

People who whine about anime are just as annoying as weeaboos.

And the source is Kotaku.

 

[CWCissey]

We live in an age where people love nothing more than finding excuses to talk about things they don't like, as opposed to, you know, talking about things they enjoy. Dobby is certainly no exception.
I do wonder what his favorite anime was. If it got laughed at enough for him to quit japanimation period, it must've been something else.

I'm guessing Kanokon or some other bullshit where a little nerdy lad is lusted after by multiple young ladies with big tits.

 

[Positron]

Dobson's fursona as The Mad Hatter. Check out that smug tongue action. Hands bigger than the feet.

When you though his fursona can't get any worse, it does.

 

[namazuros]

Dobson knows as much about anime as he knows about video games.

 

[Too Many Crooks]

When you though his fursona can't get any worse, it does.

His serial killer bear in a Santa hat he used for his Twitter icon around Halloween 2014 was worse. Or Easter 2015.

And don't forget when he drew himself as Korra

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Dobson knows as much about anime as he knows about everything.

FIFY.

 

[AN/ALR56]

Its kind of amazing that a guy with an art college degree manages to fuck up so badly his art.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

We live in an age where people love nothing more than finding excuses to talk about things they don't like, as opposed to, you know, talking about things they enjoy. Dobby is certainly no exception.
I do wonder what his favorite anime was. If it got laughed at enough for him to quit japanimation period, it must've been something else.

Here is Dobby's tragic anime tale:

A Brief Word About Anime...



I use to love Anime. I remember the days when you had to really scrounge for it. 90% of the time getting the dub was the best you could do. DVD was not invented yet, so VHS was all we had. Bad video copies and fansubs were abundant. Only a fistful of companies even attempted to import any anime. Great companies such as VIZ and CPM.

Then slowly anime started to catch on. People started referring to it as ANIME and not the politically incorrect Japanimation. Video stores such as Suncoast started building up their collection. Some TV stations started playing kids anime, and occasionally more adult stuff (as seen on the Sci-Fi channel).

I truly believe that the anime boom took off when Pokemon came into the scene. Suddenly there was this mass-produced anime that was available ALL OVER THE PLACE! It took off like a rocket! TV stations tried to mimic it by importing other shows, companies began focusing more on Anime and importing Manga, and Comic conventions started becoming Anime conventions. What once was a fun hobby that no one else knew about soon became a cultural storm!

I loved anime for the longest time. Right up through collage. It was here that my love for it began to fade. I took possession of the Anime club at my college. I soon was in-charge of finding new material, planning nights, and generally operating the whole thing single-handedly. From 7pm-Midnight I ran the club. Afterwards, once everyone had cleared out, I would clean up after them and prepare for the next week. It consumed me deeply. I had no social life on the weekends, because it was eaten up by the club.

Soon I began repeating myself. I was having a harder time finding new shows that were decent. Our club turned into a MST3K rip-off. We began makin' fun of shows. It became so harsh that even when I tried to have a serious night they would find SOMETHING to mock. Soon after this I began to notice Anime-Fan stereotypes. All my friends were just geeks who loved a show for no good reason except for the fact that it was Anime.

I started sitting outside while the shows ran. I watched less and less anime. Every new show looked the same to me. The increasing number of panty shots on 12 year olds and younger started to piss me off. I hired an assistant and taught him the ropes. Sadly I chose wrong, for he soon swept through and stole the anime club from right out beneath me, and did a poor job running it.

I stopped coming altogether. I just loathed Anime. My once favorite shows were now popular and horribly dubbed and aired out of order on various TV stations. The final blow came when Detective Boy Conan was introduced and remade into "Case Closed" which was an extremely half-assed version of what was a great detective series. I gave up on Anime.

Now I hate most anime. I can't stand to watch it anymore. However, there are a few shows which I still find entertainment from...

Anything by Rumiko Takahashi (save Inu Yasha), Anything by Hayao Miyazaki, Lupin III, Detective Boy Conan, The Slayers, Maho Tuski Tai (Magic Users Club), Mysterious Cities of Gold, and GallForce.

Those are the shows which I can stomach and watch without freaking out and complaining. I love these shows dearly. They are the only connection to me and my lost love of Anime. For this reason, I refuse to use them as a source of inflation-related ideas, save for Slayers, GallForce and Magic Users... (for they are just too PERFECT for inflation).

I don't like Anime anymore, save for those few series. You can thank the mass-media for that. When something becomes popular, it suddenly looses it's interest and appeal. Perhaps one day when Anime has run it's course and people stop caring about it so much, I might get back into it... who knows... time shall tell...

Link to website on Waybackmachine

 

[CWCissey]

When something becomes popular, it suddenly looses it's interest and appeal.

Dobbykins obviously has never heard of The Smiths!

The problem is not when something becomes popular, it's when something is created for the specific purpose of being popular (look at stuff like One Direction). If Nookie Bear was to be less of a hipster he may actually find some real friends and maybe find a little satisfaction in life, but no, he must continue being totally unlikeable.