💼 Careercow Andrew Dobson (aka Tom Preston)

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Ha! I love the angry Preston bear at the corner of my screen. :lol:

Anyway:

http://tompreston.deviantart.com/art/SYAC-Creative-Dissonance-400353059

Yeeeesh, that face in panel one says it all.

http://tompreston.deviantart.com/art/SYAC-Jealous-413662884

Creepy-as-hell smile in panel 2. Note that Dobson is at the point where he's jealous that his characters are drawn in a happy manner.

http://tompreston.deviantart.com/art/SYAC-Knocked-Out-396424844

Shitty, Strawman critic on one hand, sweet Dobson tears on the other.
 
Too Many Crooks dijo:
http://tompreston.deviantart.com/art/SYAC-Creative-Dissonance-400353059
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Sorry, couldn't hold myself:
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Here's the template in case someone wants to add something of their own:
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Chan the Wizard dijo:
He's got a few teenage DA artists that asspat him. That's it. I'm not sure how he hasn't driven them off, but they're always on his Twitter or FaceBook with the poor Dobson shtick.
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I'd say it's because they aren't old enough to be aware of the "real" Dobson, so to speak. And if they do, then they're just as bad as he is.
 
Jewelsmakerguy dijo:
I'd say it's because they aren't old enough to be aware of the "real" Dobson, so to speak. And if they do, then they're just as bad as he is.
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It seems Dobson is (for lack of a better term) some sort of entry-drug. Young people find his stuff, it seems reasonably interesting, so they stick around for some time until moving on to greener pastures.
He once had a decent amount of fans and was hyped as a "new epic", but in best saturday morning cartoon etiquette, he gladly let this go to his head, declared his own perfection (or rather: took it as validation for his own perfection) and let it all go to waste.
You know that standard cartoon plot of some meek character becoming hot shit and becoming a nasty person that looks down on his former friends? The plot that always is resolved by the meek character losing his favors with the rest of the world but being saved by his old friends due to their loyal, unbent friendship?
Yeah, that pretty much happened to Dobs, but unlike in his shitty 90s cartoons, Dobs didn't grasp the hand his fans held out to him, he spat them in the face when they were readily showing their support, even if he didn't become the next Walt Disney - he just couldn't let go of the former validation of his own perfection.

The few fans he has now are possibly only a few last dregs too stubborn to give up on him (sunk cost fallacy, I'd say... "I've kept up with this guys work for so long, dropping him now would mean I wasted all that time") and a few newcomers that'll leave Dobby for more skilled and likeable artists.
Point is: He's only feeding off his former popularity.
 
The bear-dobson is a goddamn masterpiece. It's the single most irritating thing I've ever seen. If a team of professional marketers was told to create the most aggravating character they can they couldn't possibly come up with anything half as awful as the Dobear.
 
Stud2Stud dijo:
It seems Dobson is (for lack of a better term) some sort of entry-drug. Young people find his stuff, it seems reasonably interesting, so they stick around for some time until moving on to greener pastures.
He once had a decent amount of fans and was hyped as a "new epic", but in best saturday morning cartoon etiquette, he gladly let this go to his head, declared his own perfection (or rather: took it as validation for his own perfection) and let it all go to waste.
You know that standard cartoon plot of some meek character becoming hot shit and becoming a nasty person that looks down on his former friends? The plot that always is resolved by the meek character losing his favors with the rest of the world but being saved by his old friends due to their loyal, unbent friendship?
Yeah, that pretty much happened to Dobs, but unlike in his shitty 90s cartoons, Dobs didn't grasp the hand his fans held out to him, he spat them in the face when they were readily showing their support, even if he didn't become the next Walt Disney - he just couldn't let go of the former validation of his own perfection.

The few fans he has now are possibly only a few last dregs too stubborn to give up on him (sunk cost fallacy, I'd say... "I've kept up with this guys work for so long, dropping him now would mean I wasted all that time") and a few newcomers that'll leave Dobby for more skilled and likeable artists.
Point is: He's only feeding off his former popularity.
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Like the jocks and head cheerleaders in teen movies who hit their prime in high school, Dobson is no different.
 
Foltest dijo:
Dobson RT this
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Yeah. Sure.
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You think after Gawker lost millions because of Sam "Bring Back Bullying" Biddle, they'd have just said hey guys, it was just sarcastic! Instead, they doubled down on it. Boy, joke's on us!
 
Dobson has been retweeting shit like this after some dude posted about how relying on Patreon for your livelihood is stupid.
 
Dobson is the quintessential "could have been." He could have been a good animator/artist and had some early successes and victories. However, they were the metaphorical bike pump to his ego and he became content.

"Why should I have to improve if I already have all these fans?" I get the feeling that's something Dobson said to himself, waiting for opportunity to fall into his lap. But it never did. His skills deteriorated while his attitude alienated him from his fanbase, but he never stopped to think about the current situation. His head was instead back in the blissful times of the path, the time when he could have been someone.

Now, reality is knocking and he can't turn away anymore.
 
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