💼 Careercow Andrew Dobson (aka Tom Preston)

[Curt Sibling]

Again, Dobbo's Korra lesbian fapping comes to the fore: "I don't want a well-crafted comic, complete with a good story! Just give me a dyke soap-opera!"

 

[Observatory]

Oh I must've missed that one. The ones I've seen were his character wearing elven armor with those godawful faces.

I just can't really imagine how you can't kill in Skyrim, or at least be forced to kill in order to survive. Sure you can run away, but what about boss fights?

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So apparently this is a wallpaper?

How are they not falling? What is perspective? How is that...thing between ratgirl and token straight guy leaning backwards?
The roof(?) they're sitting on looks flat as fuck. And that cloud filter.

There is so much wrong with this. Most that has already been mentioned.
The flat roof, the red light on the characters, the fact that the way they are sitting is impossible when you take into account where they are sitting. The town should be a bit less.. dark lined, for a lack of a better word. The lines seem just way to thick and dark to make look like its more in the distance. The ocean should have a bit more of a blurry edge towards the horizon (way to sharp ending to it!) and the clouds and the moon could have used far more effort.

I also can't help but to think that he used some sort of picture for the ocean.

I tried my best to show the thing with the blurry horizon and some better clouds, but note that backgrounds are not my strong point.

Spoiler: Critic is always welcome too

Spoiler: With ocean picture overlay, for comparision

This is why his ocean seems so.. photoesque to me. That, or maybe it's just my bad background skills.

 

[John Titor]

FYI, I thi

Oh I must've missed that one. The ones I've seen were his character wearing elven armor with those godawful faces.

I just can't really imagine how you can't kill in Skyrim, or at least be forced to kill in order to survive. Sure you can run away, but what about boss fights?

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So apparently this is a wallpaper?

How are they not falling? What is perspective? How is that...thing between ratgirl and token straight guy leaning backwards?
The roof(?) they're sitting on looks flat as fuck. And that cloud filter.

Flaws aside, I give it a C+ for effort.

Also, it looks like it's suppose to be cloudy so some clouds overlapping the moon and horizon line wouldn't hurt.

 

[MayMay]

Problem is that the clouds and ocean don't actually look like they fit at all, obviously being done with photoshop tools.

Given the lack of originality Dobby has and the fact that it's both popular and has lesbians, surprised he didn't just rip off the backgrounds from Steven Universe:

Spoiler

https://sneed-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/c5/0f/3a/c50f3ac5fd88f640a6fd990137d38969.jpg

As seen, they wouldn't look any worse (in fact, perhaps better) but more importantly, they can be done by hand and therefore would fit better with the overall image. That and maybe changing the colour of the lights, pure yellow doesn't look good, even a lot of typically yellow things are more a very subtle orange though in this case, making it just a bit lighter and perhaps a little greener (just a smidge so it still looks yellow) would bring it more in line with the heavy "cool" feeling colours of the rest of it.

 

[tepid]

That could have been really good if he actually looked up some tutorials on doing clouds, for instance

He did, he just did it back in the 90s when "Filter > Render > Clouds" was how most people did it.
His sea is also basic noise with a motion blur on top of it then upscaled. Probably would have benefitted from some slight curvature and haze at that horizon so it doesn't look like a flat vertical slab.

This would have been one of his better pieces if he didn't cheap out at the last minute

 

[MayMay]

He did, he just did it back in the 90s when "Filter > Render > Clouds" was how most people did it.
His sea is also basic noise with a motion blur on top of it then upscaled. Probably would have benefitted from some slight curvature and haze at that horizon so it doesn't look like a flat vertical slab.

This would have been one of his better pieces if he didn't cheap out at the last minute

Looking again, it's actually a really bizarre instance of cheaping out. He went to the trouble of adding the light effects on the ground from the windows, a minute detail and yet went filter-spam on arguably the biggest focal point of the entire picture.

It's like another new level of laziness. We had copypaste, we had recycling, we had even WORSE recycling of the recycling (change one word=NEW SYAC!) and this is the point where the laziness is just plain abstract.

 

[Slurms McCorgi]

this is the point where the laziness is just plain abstract.

He is indeed an artist, just not the kind he thinks he is!

 

[Stud2Stud]

Oh I must've missed that one. The ones I've seen were his character wearing elven armor with those godawful faces.

I just can't really imagine how you can't kill in Skyrim, or at least be forced to kill in order to survive. Sure you can run away, but what about boss fights?

Snagged from ED:

So apparently this is a wallpaper?

How are they not falling? What is perspective? How is that...thing between ratgirl and token straight guy leaning backwards?
The roof(?) they're sitting on looks flat as fuck. And that cloud filter.

Aside from terrible lighting (does Dobson know how shadows work? Why do the people glow red?), the town looks sorta comfy. I'll give him that. The coloring is decent, I'd say. The glow from the windows should be a bit less jarring (yellow would work, but that yellow is too strong) - maybe a bit more like a.mber or dark honey.
But that sky, oh man, that sky. The 'clouds' look more like they are dirt on the lense or something. They look completely flat and 2 dimensional...

I'd say it's one of his better works, but sadly he's continuing to sell himself under his own (already low) value.
Imagine he'd spent a bit more time on the clouds/horizon, on the shadows and highlights of the little village, made the people on the roof look more like... well... people on a roof... this could be a genuinely good image. Not just "That's pretty good compared to his usual stuff" but as in "I have no clue who made it, but it looks good"-good.
One, perhaps two days more work invested into this piece and it would be good. Too bad Dobson is currently jerking over his "I uploaded something to Patreon almost every day!" shtick.

I'm going to ignore the massive artistic flaws and just point out this "wallpaper" has a baffling resolution of 2277*1133 giving it an aspect ratio of goddam 207:103. I don't think I've ever seen a monitor with those dimensions in my life. Like Seriously Dobson, how hard is it to take a blank canvas and set it to 1920*1080 before you start drawing.

EDIT: For the record I've placed my desktop, a bog standard 1080p, against his wallpaper to show how insane this is. This won't fit on a 16:9 resolution (which the vast majority of monitors conform to) without massive cropping or squashing.

Spoiler

You know, your image pretty much explains why:
See what your standard ratio screen obstructs? Or rather: Imagine you'd cut the part that's now hidden behind your own screen and take that as a background?
Yeah, with this weird size you can cut out Doormat and loonytunesreject without having to upscale the image.
So you only have the two lesbians (who are both drinking beer while the other two apparently don't) holding hands on a roof.

I saw a couple tweets tonight. Dobson is as milquetoast as ever.

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Again, very much like Chris with his Sonichu-stuff. He doesn't want any hardships, conflicts or obstacles. He just wants a pleasant cruise without any prickly-wicklies whatsoever. It pretty much validates my opinion that he's just like a teen-girl gushing over her favorite characters and scowling at those (characters) who wrong them.
"I appreciate this show. It touches many topics that are important to me. Also fuck the story, the antagonists and pretty much everything involving personal growth or character developement. I just want to watch these few particular characters frolicking without any disturbance whatsoever!"
Mature as fuck, Dobson.

 

[JU 199]

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That copy/paste rock texture is fucking atrocious.

 

[chimpburgers]

Oh I must've missed that one. The ones I've seen were his character wearing elven armor with those godawful faces.

I just can't really imagine how you can't kill in Skyrim, or at least be forced to kill in order to survive. Sure you can run away, but what about boss fights?

Snagged from ED:

So apparently this is a wallpaper?

How are they not falling? What is perspective? How is that...thing between ratgirl and token straight guy leaning backwards?
The roof(?) they're sitting on looks flat as fuck. And that cloud filter.

I can't tell where I'm supposed to be looking at. I'm way too distracted by the sea and moon in the background. He should have changed the composition so the audience looks at his characters first.

There are way too many competing details and clutter in this thing too.

 

[JU 199]

Wait a minute-

https://kiwifarms.net/attachments/andrew-dobson-aka-tom-preston-page-428-kiwi-farms-png.35172/

If the moon's setting why would it be casting shadows behind the rock. Christ Dobson.

 

[cumrobbery]

Oh I must've missed that one. The ones I've seen were his character wearing elven armor with those godawful faces.

I just can't really imagine how you can't kill in Skyrim, or at least be forced to kill in order to survive. Sure you can run away, but what about boss fights?

Snagged from ED:

So apparently this is a wallpaper?

How are they not falling? What is perspective? How is that...thing between ratgirl and token straight guy leaning backwards?
The roof(?) they're sitting on looks flat as fuck. And that cloud filter.

The stars look kind of nice, I guess
But the characters just don't match the style of the rest of the piece.

 

[Gothicserpent]

Oh I must've missed that one. The ones I've seen were his character wearing elven armor with those godawful faces.

I just can't really imagine how you can't kill in Skyrim, or at least be forced to kill in order to survive. Sure you can run away, but what about boss fights?

Snagged from ED:

So apparently this is a wallpaper?

How are they not falling? What is perspective? How is that...thing between ratgirl and token straight guy leaning backwards?
The roof(?) they're sitting on looks flat as fuck. And that cloud filter.

I'm surprised that the straight guy isn't being kicked off the cliff by the heroic lesbians.

 

[Stud2Stud]

Dobson has a new incentive to make people donate to his Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/2794962

Since it only affects people who give him more than 4 bucks a month, I'd say the amount of people that are eligible is rather small.
But it's certainly a bit of a bummer since it will only affect one person. If I was him, I'd add a digital goody to everyone who didn't get the basket... but oh well. It's not like Dobson is fond of reducing paywalls for content.

 

[Belvedere]

Oh Dobson, look what happens when you image search for "FULL MOON OVER BAY"

Spoiler: Reference Image 1

Spoiler: Rerefence Image 2

Spoiler: Reference Image 3

It goes without saying that maybe he didn't even bothered to Google for references to see how a night scene of the moon over a bay looks like. What bothers me is how his image is a hodgepodge of slapped together filter FXs, textures and his own art in such a haphazard way. I'm not against using such techniques as long it is done in a cohesive, natural looking way. Also what bothers me is that all the windows in the village emit the same monotonous tone of yellow, as if chromatic variations don't exist in light sources at all.

I tried my best to show the thing with the blurry horizon and some better clouds, but note that backgrounds are not my strong point.

Spoiler: Critic is always welcome too

The biggest issue this image (and Dobson's) has is that with a moon this low and this bright these are no stars to be seen, the exposure of the image in combination with the moon's glow make the stars invisible under these conditions. Also, the clouds should not be this white (see reference images) as these should be in shadow in the "sea facing" side with its borders illuminated as these are the "moon facing" parts of the clouds.

I'm going to ignore the massive artistic flaws and just point out this "wallpaper" has a baffling resolution of 2277*1133 giving it an aspect ratio of goddam 207:103. I don't think I've ever seen a monitor with those dimensions in my life. Like Seriously Dobson, how hard is it to take a blank canvas and set it to 1920*1080 before you start drawing.

EDIT: For the record I've placed my desktop, a bog standard 1080p, against his wallpaper to show how insane this is. This won't fit on a 16:9 resolution (which the vast majority of monitors conform to) without massive cropping or squashing.

There is a more simple explanation for this: it is Dobson's typical lack of attention to detail. He just started drawing without even paying attention to the image aspect ratio. He is just that much of a moron/negligent with his work ethic that even something as basic as making a desktop wallpaper should be in a 16:9 ratio canvas.

 

[Chuggernaut]

That's supposed to be rocks they're sitting on? I thought it was a big stack of hay bales. Or frosted mini- wheats.

 

[CrimsonKnight]

That's supposed to be rocks they're sitting on? I thought it was a big stack of hay bales. Or frosted mini- wheats.

I thought the same thing. I'm also pretty sure they're not supposed to be casting a shadow.

 

[vittek]

So we are to assume that the roof they are sitting on is the same like all the other buildings? How come the cat-thing in the middle has its legs all stretched out..but where are the legs resting exactly?

 

[Stud2Stud]

Nah, it's a thatched roof, I'd say. The pattern and color as well as the rest of the houses indicate as much. Also, I think he used a base layer of hay (or something similar) for the roof that shines through.

But it's quite a testament to his artistic skill we even have to argue about such things. All poses indicate they are sitting one something flat.

 

[fireatdawn]

I would love to see him attempt to use Paint Tool Sai, considering it doesn't have all the added crutches, I mean tools, photoshop has.