💼 Careercow Andrew Dobson (aka Tom Preston)

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Pickle Inspector dijo:
Here is Dobby's tragic anime tale:
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While I'll admit that there's a lot of pandering animu saturating the market, the fact that Dobby seems to generalize anime as all of the pandering crap and that he has such a small range of anime that he enjoys gives me the impression that he had an extremely narrow interest in anime and that he never bothered to actually look that far into the genre outside of the very mainstream stuff even when he was interested in it, and that he seems to just demonize the genre based on all of the stuff most anti-animu complain about.

In other words, he's not missed.
 
dollarpennypincher dijo:
Dobson's fursona as The Mad Hatter. Check out that smug tongue action. Hands bigger than the feet.

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Look at his arms, he has only one shoulder; his right arm is connected directly to his throat and if the proportions are to be believed, the arm that has a shoulder does not have a forearm. One arm is literally twice as long as the other one. The hand forming the bullhorns looks like a monkey's foot; the palm of his hand is drawn like a heel.

He is deformed.

This is Dobson's defining problem; prioritizing style over realism. He should draw skeletons of his characters before putting on the final touches, just to make sure the anatomy motherfucking makes sense. I love how he's so lazy that the character's shadow is literally just a circle beneath him, his entire figure should be reflected on the background, especially since the shading is set at an angle.

I would go on about how nonsensical his coat is but there's only so many times I could say "Dobson is bad at art" before it got stale.
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid dijo:
Look at his arms, he has only one shoulder; his right arm is connected directly to his throat and if the proportions are to be believed, the arm that has a shoulder does not have a forearm. One arm is literally twice as long as the other one. The hand forming the bullhorns looks like a monkey's foot; the palm of his hand is drawn like a heel.

He is deformed.

This is Dobson's defining problem; prioritizing style over realism. He should draw skeletons of his characters before putting on the final touches, just to make sure the anatomy motherfucking makes sense. I love how he's so lazy that the character's shadow is literally just a circle beneath him, his entire figure should be reflected on the background, especially since the shading is set at an angle.

I would go on about how nonsensical his coat is but there's only so many times I could say "Dobson is bad at art" before it got stale.
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Now that you mention it holy cow. Might be worth me trying to rescribble later.

Though question, if I do, should it still be that bear or should I try a design that might be appealing at all? :P
 
MayMay dijo:
Now that you mention it holy cow. Might be worth me trying to rescribble later.

Though question, if I do, should it still be that bear or should I try a design that might be appealing at all? :P
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Make it the Dobby bear, whatever its name is. Show utterly and demonstrably all the ways the picture could have been made better if handled by a competent artist, same pose and everything.
 
Gensdupays dijo:
Has anyone done one of those "draw the fucked up skeleton of bad drawings" studies for Dobson's stuff yet? And I can't stop looking at that damn tooth. It just looks like Dobbear is holding a mint.
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I took a crack at it. The skeletal structure was really hard to read, but I didn't want to bother putting more effort into analyzing the pose than Dobson put into actually drawing that shit.

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Dobson's innane rambling dijo:
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...
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There's a few things wrong about what this says:
1. Everyone's got a fucking opinion, not everyone's going to like the same stuff as you and vice-versa. On top of that, why the fuck wouldn't you want to mock something? Does he really hate MST3K for the values it taught us?
2. Detective Conan (no 'boy' in there dumbass) was always known as Case Closed in America because of the whole Conan the Barbarian bullshit and TMS not wanting to risk getting sued.
3. Doesn't that make you a hypocrite when one minute you trash all of anime and the next minute list off ones you still like? 'Cause I'm pretty sure that does.
 
Waaah. Anime is too easy to access nowadays. Not like in the 90's, everything was better in the 90's. All anime is trash. I don't even accurately remember the name of an anime that finally made me give up on anime. I hate anime so much, but I still like the few good animes.
 
Skeealator dijo:
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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I hate to be a Dobson defender here, but this isn't the pose he was going for. He was aiming to directly copy the pose at 1:14 in this video.

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That being said, he still butchered the pose and his art captures none of the charm of the original. It was part of a quick, fluid motion, and not really the greatest pose to draw for a still image. The original Mad Hatter had his hands pressed together, not pressing on his stomach or whatever the hell is happening in Dobson's picture. As has been stated, Dobson forgot to draw his character's shoulder and he might as well have just vomited for his background. The Mad Hatter is pretty eccentric (as are a lot of characters in the movie), but Dobson managed as always to make his character look like an incredibly wooden, boring, and smug jackass. He needs to just stop drawing this shitty self-insert fan art and get back to drawing his own original works.
 
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