💼 Careercow Andrew Dobson (aka Tom Preston)

[Sunny-D]

And the fact that it wasn't even missing his family or something reasonable that he was feeling sorry for himself about - it was missing "santa claus and trees and presents", since Dobby never matured beyond a 5 year old level. He could have just gotten involved with his girlfriend and her family, had a good time and taken his mind off being homesick, but he'd rather sulk and then whine publicly on the internet instead of having a conversation with his girlfriend about what bothered him. Yet another example of Dobby causing every one of his own problems.

 

[kobebyarlant]

Jimmy Fucking Wonton, the perfect example of Dobson's "creative" process.

Spoiler: Wonton? Even that's not original.

"Look Dag, this temp was the personal recommendation of Won Ton's. He may look like he's just fallen off the back of a turnip truck, but he wouldn't run if his ass was on fire. He goes with you. And that's a deal breaker!"

 

[MMX]

The funniest part about Dobson going after Dead or Alive?


I'm pretty sure at least one of the girls from this comic from is from DoA.

DOA SPERGING
Both are, purple hair is ayane the ninja
The other is tina the cowgirl wrestler
So once again we see Dobsons hypocrisy..

 

[UglyOldJafar]

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I don't think he likes your ideas.

Frankly, I am actually considering sending him the entire shtick. I am just working out a few other details, like antagonists and so on, as well as the basic outline for the entire "show". Why? Not because I am autistic, but because I actually find myself enjoying coming up with this shit now. I even have an idea for an "episode" that would feature my version of the cast meeting Dobson's version. Or rather shapeshifting parasites/pod people trying to replace the crew one by one and failing miserably to fool the others. And when I send it to him I am so going to put it simultaneously public on tumblr, patreon, dA and on any webcomic forum that comes to mind. Why? Because I want to see people give me kudos to that while Dobson sees his dreams being stolen.

 

[Rabbit Bones]

How they keep saying 'her room' and 'my room' makes it sound like they didn't share a bedroom...

 

[MayMay]

How they keep saying 'her room' and 'my room' makes it sound like they didn't share a bedroom...

Would you want to share a bedroom with Andrew Dobson?

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

A bit old but that tweet where he mentions that he "hates inking", good God man! I bet there are professional artists out there that don't find a part of the creative process pleasant, but they don't go out and broadcast it to the world for potential clients or employers to see. Image if he where to apply for an actual art job but the only position available is that of an inker? A lot of companies really look into the online "footprint" of job candidates. Who do you think is going to get the job? The artist that hates inking but shut ups about it or the guy that says he actually HATES inking?

Also, that "Korrasami" animation, A+ for effort Dobson, too bad that even such a pet project for him is being done so poorly, the characters are completely off model and I could forgive this if it were an animation from an amateur, not from someone with a formal education and a degree in animation. Furthermore, plenty of people have joked about Dobson being stuck in the 90s, but why on Earth does he have to make this animation as if technology had not advanced since then. Using paper, pencils and a scanner, instead of drawing directly on a tablet, dafuq?!

Actually, Japan does the same thing. The difference here though is that Dobson's too lazy to do anything to change things up (also his strange aversion to change may have something to do with it. That, or he either has no clue and/or tablet).

If you were to give me the choice, I'd probably do a mix, depending on what the shot calls for. 'Sides, I need more time with my tablet anyways.

So found another one of his comics from his CattyN days.

Spoiler: Spoilered because NSFW. Also disturbing.

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I can't tell what's worse- the fucker's hipocracy, or the fact that this is, effectively, a bloodless murder.

 

[MMX]

I can't tell what's worse- the fucker's hipocracy, or the fact that this is, effectively, a bloodless murder.

Whats the odds Dobson used to inflate toads and frogs as a kid.

 

[Ti-99/4A]

Whats the odds Dobson used to inflate toads and frogs as a kid.

Pretty low. He'd have to go outside.

 

[Stud2Stud]

He's claimed before that he learned and was taught to draw more anime-like, and that's what's kept him from working at Disney and such.

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Spoiler: Preston's rant inside(from the comic's description)

When I was a young adult I stumbled upon this wondrously new form of entertainment known as Japanimation. It was cartoons, but they were gritty, dark, sexy, ultra violent, and pretty much everything that American cartoons were not. At that point in my development I had been yearning for more “mature” content and was frustrated that American cartoons never really dealt with those themes. Anime also wasn’t popular at the time, so it was like being personally entitled to things others weren’t.

I quickly began mimicking Anime and Manga styles and adapting it into my very Disney-esque one. I drew that way for a long time, trying very hard to mimic Japanese comics right down to using a lot of their “unique” symbols such as snot bubbles and giant sweat drops, which were all new and unusual to us.

Then suddenly Anime and Manga hit a BOOM in America with the introduction of the Pokemon TV series and the Pokemon game phenomenon. TV stations quickly tried to pick up as many new Anime as possible, and before long almost all kids shows here were Anime, even if they weren’t meant to be for kids (like Escaflowne). Suddenly, my style didn’t look as unique anymore and I didn’t feel “special” for drawing Anime.

As I began re-experiencing more western comics and cartoons in college, I came to realize a lot of the problems with Anime and Manga. The lack of variety in facial features, the tendency to draw gritty-tough-as-nails-bad-ass men as efeminine “bishonen,” the need to have every girl have rainbow colored hair and giant eye pools you could drown in, the stereotypical cuteness and desire to be “innocent” slightly sexualized, etc etc. The more I looked at Anime and all the people around me imitating it, the more I realized that there are other styles and ways to draw things which are just as effective.

But try as I might, changing my style proved to be VERY difficult. I had been drawing Anime for so long that I didn’t know how to alter it without completely ruining the stuff I liked about all my characters. I realized that rather than learning the tools of the trade, I had forgone a lot of the technical knowledge I needed to draw in my efforts to copy a foreign style. Anime had, in fact, corrupted my ability to draw anything.

And it’s worse now than I ever dreamed it would be. Just take a peek at the frontpage of DA and see how much Anime and Manga influenced artwork gets attention and praise from everyone. It’s almost impossible to find artwork in a style which HASN’T in some way been influenced by Anime and Manga. I’m not trying to say that Anime and Manga is EVIL, but I do feel that we’ve become over-saturated with it to the point that it’s actually becoming detrimental to our collective growth as artists.

So yes... There is a bit of a hypocrisy going on here. Having me complain about Anime and Manga is hypocritical because I, too, was influenced by it (although I think you can see other styles in my work Anime and Manga was probably the biggest influence I had as a kid). But that doesn’t mean that I can’t recognize my own shortcomings and realize how much we desperately need to move away from Anime and Manga and create more individualized and personal drawing styles instead of just copying the norm.

And just for the record, if this were hypothetically reversed and Disney was more popular than Anime, I would be saying the same thing only about moving away from Disney. Its not specifically Anime and Manga I hate, it’s the over saturation effect it’s had on us and our artwork

Ho boy... speaking as an anime-enthusiast, it's really disheartening to see Dobbers spew so much nonsense about something he always insinuates to have been part of "before it was cool".
He wants to pose as this connaisseur that happened to stumble upon this fine media before it became mainstream but fails on all accords.

He's talking about a media as if it was merely a genre with only exactly one art style. This baffles me. He wants to come of as this insightful expert, and all he ever consumed in this particular media was at best merely surface-material of the most mainstream shit available. He chastises the style for being bland, when in fact, he just never bothered to look past the most popular things.


Every big artist has his own, unique style (which is more than Dobson could say after over 2 Decades of drawing):
Blade of the Immortal (Samura Hiroaki)
Eden - It's an endless World (Endo Hiroki)
Blame! (Nihei Tsutomu)
FLCL (Ueda Hajime)
This is what Dobson describes as a "lack of variety in facial features", huh? Some artists are a tad notorious for making characters that suffer a bit from "Sameface disease" - such as Nihei Tsutomu or Sonada Kenichi, but oftentimes those artists have a different focus. Nihei excels at surreal oversized architecture and Sonoda is a genius when it comes to firearms and cars.

But the next part of that quote just slays me:

the tendency to draw gritty-tough-as-nails-bad-ass men as efeminine “bishonen,”

"Guts" from "Berserk" (Made by Miura Kentaro)
"Kenshiro" from "Fist of the North Star" (Made by Hara Tetsuo)


Of course, that's just a very elaborate way to say "Dobson has no fucking clue what he's talking about. He never had and never will have. Full stop."

/rant

Edit:
And when you look at the stuff I chose, that's not some super mega secret stuff either. All the Manga I linked are incredibly popular and successful on an international level.
This just further highlights how much Dobbers sucked at exploring new things. I bet you anything, all Dobbers ever did was watching Sailor Moon while doing unspeakable things with his hands beneath his blankets.

 

[UglyOldJafar]

I think I found out who is Dobson's favorite pony in MLP

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

I think I found out who is Dobson's favorite pony in MLP

Does Dobson even like MLP? Has he ever mentioned that?

 

[Rabbit Bones]

He's drawn MLP art in the past, but I don't recall any of the fan boy fervor he throws himself into over it

 

[fishercat]

Ho boy... speaking as an anime-enthusiast, it's really disheartening to see Dobbers spew so much nonsense about something he always insinuates to have been part of "before it was cool".
He wants to pose as this connaisseur that happened to stumble upon this fine media before it became mainstream but fails on all accords.

He's talking about a media as if it was merely a genre with only exactly one art style. This baffles me. He wants to come of as this insightful expert, and all he ever consumed in this particular media was at best merely surface-material of the most mainstream shit available. He chastises the style for being bland, when in fact, he just never bothered to look past the most popular things.


Every big artist has his own, unique style (which is more than Dobson could say after over 2 Decades of drawing):
Blade of the Immortal (Samura Hiroaki)
Eden - It's an endless World (Endo Hiroki)
Blame! (Nihei Tsutomu)
FLCL (Ueda Hajime)
This is what Dobson describes as a "lack of variety in facial features", huh? Some artists are a tad notorious for making characters that suffer a bit from "Sameface disease" - such as Nihei Tsutomu or Sonada Kenichi, but oftentimes those artists have a different focus. Nihei excels at surreal oversized architecture and Sonoda is a genius when it comes to firearms and cars.

But the next part of that quote just slays me:

"Guts" from "Berserk" (Made by Miura Kentaro)
"Kenshiro" from "Fist of the North Star" (Made by Hara Tetsuo)


Of course, that's just a very elaborate way to say "Dobson has no fucking clue what he's talking about. He never had and never will have. Full stop."

/rant

And even newer animes have varying faces, even within the same show!

Spoiler: SPERG

Spoiler: MORE SPERG

Spoiler: EVEN MORE GODDAMN SPERGING

There are a lot more examples, but tbh I don't give enough of a shit and I think my point gets across with only three different animes.

What I'm getting at is that even now you can't lump all anime together under the same "they're all moeblobs/bishonen samefaces." Anime is composed of many genres and many different studios and animators. It's like saying that all western cartoons are the same!

My apologies for weeb sperg.

 

[Professor Iris]

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"Look at how hard I'm working! Praise me!"

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I don't know what to say about this. It's like he's acknowledging what people have been telling him about his lack of backgrounds all along, but he'll be damned if he doesn't straight out admit it!

Also, that last Tweet is really, really creepy.

 

[UglyOldJafar]

He's drawn MLP art in the past, but I don't recall any of the fan boy fervor he throws himself into over it

Well fandom fever similiar to Steven Universe (which is SOOOOOO progressive now) not, but based on what I saw and gathered I got the following picture: He enjoys the show and watched it, but supposedly because some fans made fun of him (there is some british brony who makes fun of other brony work as well as Dobson a lot) and some issues he had with it like any other autist, he is more "critical" to it. He also attacked bronies and called them creeps when he heard some guy wanted to also join the Steven Universe fandom. The thing about Dobson with MLP, which also managed for me to realize how bad he actually is at art in general is, he can't even draw characters from that show accurate for a lack of better words. And MLP really is not known for complex character designs or anatomy you can fuck up that easily.

 

[Kabobs]

Also, that last Tweet is really, really creepy.

I can imagine that the heavy breathing he must've done while typing that.

 

[CephalopodEnthusiast]

You could stand to follow that yourself, Dobson. You haven't been exactly respectful to those who have criticized your work.

 

[Stud2Stud]

A bit old but that tweet where he mentions that he "hates inking", good God man! I bet there are professional artists out there that don't find a part of the creative process pleasant, but they don't go out and broadcast it to the world for potential clients or employers to see. Image if he where to apply for an actual art job but the only position available is that of an inker? A lot of companies really look into the online "footprint" of job candidates. Who do you think is going to get the job? The artist that hates inking but shut ups about it or the guy that says he actually HATES inking?

Also, that "Korrasami" animation, A+ for effort Dobson, too bad that even such a pet project for him is being done so poorly, the characters are completely off model and I could forgive this if it were an animation from an amateur, not from someone with a formal education and a degree in animation. Furthermore, plenty of people have joked about Dobson being stuck in the 90s, but why on Earth does he have to make this animation as if technology had not advanced since then. Using paper, pencils and a scanner, instead of drawing directly on a tablet, dafuq?!

Well, to be fair, Dobs is doing a fine job burying tweets like the "I hate [my chosen line of work]" in an ocean of tweets about alien prepubescent lesbians and his special brand of paranoia regarding art thieves.

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"Look at how hard I'm working! Praise me!"

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Oh god... if he's as good at making an animated kiss as he's with merely drawing them for a comic, this is gonna be gud.
Either way: creepy lesbian fetish...

Dobson's proposal 4 and 5 is up.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=imbIx26VODc
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_IBMJ4ZC7WY
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Scratch that... oh these lip movements. Dobson has never actually watched someone's face while they talk, has he?

I'd say the worst thing is despite being called "east vs west" it's not something like characters from Powerpuff Girls and other things from western animation beating up anime but Dobson's OCs. I mean it would have been bad if it was actual characters from western shows doing it but Dobby's aborted ripoffs? It's like an artistic tantrum. "Waaah how dare these filthy anime get more recognition than my crap, it ruined my life!"

Okay, I can't be the only one that is getting severe Chris-Chan "Sonichu Sub-Episodes" flashbacks.
It's really like Chris' self insert beating up Merried Seinor Citizen...

 

[Johnny Bravo]

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You could stand to follow that yourself, Dobson. You haven't been exactly respectful to those who have criticized your work.

The internet is the modern aggregate of humanity. Do you realize how hard it is to control humanity?