OUT OF OUR WAY
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So WAY back at the end of Season 3 of "Legend of Korra," when Korra is confined to a wheelchair as Asami pushes her around,
I had this idea. I had seen this animated gif on tumblr (which I posted in the attachments so y'all can see it) of two anime girls careening down a slope on a wheelchair. And it just looked so bad-ass (and hilarious at the same time) that
I couldn't help but imagine what it would be like if it were Korra and Asami.
So today I finally finished that.
Part of what was preventing me from doing it is that I stupidly FORGOT the link to the gif and the source, so I had to wait until it popped back up on my social media links again randomly. From what I can tell the Anime is called "To Aru Kagaka no Railgun S."
Had a lot of fun with this one. Drawing the wheelchair was hard and
I'm sure there's plenty of mistakes with it. Got to try out a new brush on the backgrounds too. Overall, quite pleased with it! ENJOY!
These are the things that really grind my gear regarding Dobson methodology and the way he goes about working on his art. No Dobson, you DIDN'T had and idea, you saw an image with and idea someone else had and you decided to COPY it, inserting your beloved Korrasami. And don't get me wrong, there are plenty of awesome artist that do nothing but amazing fan art but they do so giving it their own spin and style. Hell, I wouldn't be so annoyed if Dobson had used the idea of the wheel chair but had it drawn it with completely different poses, camera angle or setting. Nope! let me just copy the image wholesale but making sure to make as many mistakes as possible to make sure it is evident how inferior it is to both, the source image he is referencing and the characters he is (supposedly) paying homage to. The only reason these characters can be tagged as Korra or Asami are the clothes because Dobbles could not draw a on-model face if his life depended on it, screw it, not even that; can this guy even draw an attractive female face, let alone a attractive female body?! Just look at Korra's FFS!
Then is the whole
"I forgot the link, might as well not even make an effort to hunt down the image on my own using Google, that's too much work, let me play a few more rounds of Splatoon and wait for the random, eventual chance that someone might send to image my way." - Andrew "Lazy Fuck." Dobson.
And finally, he is fully aware there are PLENTY of mistakes in the image, hmmm, OK let's see how and artist should proceed if he has this knowledge:
a) The Professional Way: "I know the image is no good, there are plenty of mistakes in it, I should review it and fix it before moving on to inking and coloring otherwise I'll be just making things worse for me as this will speak horribly of my technique and I'll knowingly be giving my audience a sub-par effort on my behalf" or
b) The Dobson Way: "I know the image is no good, LOL don't care -- POST!" And boy is it plagued with mistakes. He uses a camera angle that does very little to emphasize movement, the wheels look squashed as an attempt to depict movement but the spokes are clearly defined as to indicate the wheels are static (and WTF is with that spoke configuration?) The hair is in the way of Korra's face obstructing the view of it and then there is the skirt in Asami which fail to convey the inertial movement adequately. He placed a few "speed lines" to convey motion but these seem to be in a layer behind the characters, there should be a few over and in front as well to make the effect more convincing. (also notice that the image he reference doesn't contain a single speed line yet the movement is more evident thanks to the way momentum and inertia are depicted in the characters themselves.) I'm not going to even talk about that background but I'll be talking about that trailing dust cloud and sparks which speaks volumes as to the utter ignorance of this man regarding the most basic depiction of effects in an illustration. Look at the image he is referencing and then at what he ended up with:
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Does his brain even processes what his eyes are seeing? Dust, smoke, fog, sparks, etc., are non-tangible, ethereal, ephemeral environmental effects that dissipate and banish shortly after appearing. In the original image we see how the dust is translucent, allowing to see what is behind it, it has no defined borders and the sparks are bright particles of light that leave a small trail behind right before being extinguished. So how does Sour Bear handle it? He renders these as solid, opaque, flat masses of color with damn THICK OUTLINES as if these were solid objects! Does he even think about the nature of the things he is drawing before his brain is sending signals to his fat fingers? Oh and BTW, that thick outline is a Photoshop effect. What is it Dobson? you criticize people for using blur effects to convey movement yet you use effects to draw outlines, at least people who use blur effect do so in a effective manner, those wheels could have benefited from it.
How can someone who when to an art school and has been drawing for 15+ years still draws and makes mistakes worthy of a damn amateur ?!
TL;DR version: Dobson doesn't have an ounce of originality in his body and even copying someone else's ideas, he is incompetent at it.
