Inactive Andrew Dobson / Tom Preston / CattyN - STOP DOING SEXIST CRAP

[Tame Sake]

that's gotta be the most obnoxious super imposition of a texture on a picture (though normally it's super imposed on clothing) I have ever seen.

 

[RisingPhoenix]

So...why the rainbow hair?

Technically it's a style a lot of people seem to use when drawing Lum, they kinda throw some rainbow shade in her hair sometimes to accentuate the whole "she's an alien" thing.

 

[AngeloTheWizard]

Technically it's a style a lot of people seem to use when drawing Lum, they kinda throw some rainbow shade in her hair sometimes to accentuate the whole "she's an alien" thing.

As if the horns don't already tell me she's not fully human. You don't need rainbow hair!

 

[DracoRincewind]

So...why the rainbow hair?

There was some old offical artwork by Takahasi where she had milticolored hair. But nothing as excessive as what Dobson drew.

 

[UglyOldJafar]

Technically it's a style a lot of people seem to use when drawing Lum, they kinda throw some rainbow shade in her hair sometimes to accentuate the whole "she's an alien" thing.

yeah sure, but... this is not a rainbow shade. That is a galaxy being stuck in a hair shaped glass container someone put on an ugly mannequin's head.

and don't get me even started on the eyes or how deformed the head looks, making her look more like a pig than a humanoid alien.

 

[RisingPhoenix]

There was some old offical artwork by Takahasi where she had milticolored hair. But nothing as excessive as what Dobson drew.
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Yeah the show/manga liked to play with Lum's hair, but this isn't just a blob with a gradient pattern fill, the guy made great use of negative space to add shape to the hair. and the blue is applied with shade in mind (it's added to the back of her forehead, edge of her fringe and on the bangs, not just mmmgradienttastic)

Dobson is basically trying to ape this, but in a lazy way as per usual

That said the anime itself could draw Lum horribly (the first OP animation is awful)

 

[BurnerRobot]

Gotta love how Dobson went out of his way to get rid of any sort of curve that Samus' canon design has.

Also implying that a woman is a streroetyoical air-headed bimbo for wearing heels is pretty misogynistic. I mean the heels don't hinder her movement and they actually help her maneuver around more safely when she's in a situation without her armor, so it's not like they don't serve a purpose. It really does seem like Dobson is just getting super pissy because he doesn't believe women should wear something that shows off their body or makes them look somewhat sexual. This guy is like the paragon of the horseshoe theory.

Powerleveling for a moment here, but I had a friend who disliked the rocket heels. Then I decided to use Zero Suit Samus in a game, and we realised that her moveset involves kicking people in the face with the rocket engines in her shoes and we both agreed that the rocket heels are awesome. Could they have a more practical design? Yeah. Does that stop them being awesome? No.

I mean fuck, this woman leaves a trail of devastated planets in her wake wherever she goes. She can probably handle running and fight in high-heeled shoes.

Not to mention that Samus has heels at all because of his precious Other-M.

 

[Count groudon]

Powerleveling for a moment here, but I had a friend who disliked the rocket heels. Then I decided to use Zero Suit Samus in a game, and we realised that her moveset involves kicking people in the face with the rocket engines in her shoes and we both agreed that the rocket heels are awesome. Could they have a more practical design? Yeah. Does that stop them being awesome? No.

I mean fuck, this woman leaves a trail of devastated planets in her wake wherever she goes. She can probably handle running and fight in high-heeled shoes.

Not to mention that Samus has heels at all because of his precious Other-M.

Dobson probably never even played other M, he most likely just heard how all the actual fans of the series hated it and decided that he loved it because he thinks having unpopular opinions makes him shrewd and intelligent.

 

[Jigglyjogglers]

There was some old offical artwork by Takahasi where she had milticolored hair. But nothing as excessive as what Dobson drew.
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Takahashi's approach to characters and color, when she'd color covers or whatnot, was always something like a small child's with a coloring book and box of crayons: "I feel like this color right now." Most anime developed off of her work just uses whatever color she came close to using repeatedly, like red for Ranma's (which has been everything from pastel blue to vivid pink on some covers). If you actually look at her style for most books it's very minimalist and doesn't have a lot of lines on the page, and she was often rather lazy with drawing things out.

Still light years better than Dobson because at least what she put on the page was generally used to good effect.

 

[HU 096]

Inktober- Lum Invader

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He drew her better in his CattyN days than he did here (but he was a tryhard Takahashi imitator back then). He's clearly trying to avoid drawing in animu style, though. When in previous pictures he would try to imitate the official style.

And can Dobson be any more boring with these pictures? All of them are just head to neck/shoulder shots of a character facing left/right. It doesn't capture who the characters are beyond appearance (which he can't even nail right; especially the color schemes because all he does is use it for a few seconds to say "SEE? I DO USE REFERENCES!").

 

[tepid]

Thank you kindly, Qi.

That's a pretty depressing downfall. So I wasn't too far off in saying his Patreon dropped by half this year.

$142 a whole year ago. Barely scraping $65 this year. And really no one to blame but himself.

Found this while digging around my hard drive, funny how it was actually more optimistic than the reality.

 

[AngeloTheWizard]

Found this while digging around my hard drive, funny how it was actually more optimistic than the reality.

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Damn, almost got the number of patrons right.

 

[Patrick Buttman]

Dobson probably never even played other M, he most likely just heard how all the actual fans of the series hated it and decided that he loved it because he thinks having unpopular opinions makes him shrewd and intelligent.

I'm surprised that Dobby is such a fan of Other M, since it's the most sexist portrayal of Samus in the whole series. For one thing, she's heavily restricted from using certain weapons or upgrades until her former commander (a man, no less) gives her permission to use them. Then there's the whole clumsy "mother/baby" metaphor that the game keeps slapping you in the face with, as if somehow Samus needs to be a mother to have any value as a person. Finally, when she meets Ridley, Samus freezes up and screams like a teenage girl seeing a penis for the first time. This is a character that has never shied away from danger, and ends up shoving several dozen super missiles up Ridley's ass, and now she's wetting her pants over him?

But no - Samus wearing heels like pretty much every woman on the planet and a suit that doesn't have her tits and ass hanging out is the REAL SEXISM, you guise!

 

[Positron]

Dobbo will be interested in this:

 

[Odie Esty]

Takahashi's approach to characters and color, when she'd color covers or whatnot, was always something like a small child's with a coloring book and box of crayons: "I feel like this color right now." Most anime developed off of her work just uses whatever color she came close to using repeatedly, like red for Ranma's (which has been everything from pastel blue to vivid pink on some covers). If you actually look at her style for most books it's very minimalist and doesn't have a lot of lines on the page, and she was often rather lazy with drawing things out.

Still light years better than Dobson because at least what she put on the page was generally used to good effect.

Ah, the Hirohiko Araki school of coloring.

 

[Intelligent Calcium]

I'm surprised that Dobby is such a fan of Other M, since it's the most sexist portrayal of Samus in the whole series.

Everyone hates Other M so his knee-jerk reaction is to like it. He's a shallow contrarian first and someone who pretends to give a shit about women second.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Did she swallow a fridge or what's up with her rectangular torso?
Also, goddamnit that face, these colors, it's really painful on the eyes.

I believe those are her shoulders. I can see why you'd get confused though, considering Dobson's limited (especially nowadays) grasp of anatomy.

Also, That hair is a fucking eyesore.

 

[Professor Iris]

I am pretty sure that Dobson thought Lum was a space alien and that was all the excuse he needed to put her eyes so far apart.

Also, colour theory, Dobson. If Chris Chan has a better grasp of it than you, it's time to reconsider your life choices.

 

[MightyBiteySnake]

And that's why I've never liked the comic- Dobson never bothered to do his research on the subject matter in question despite being a full on Nintendo fanboy.

That's the thing tho: Dobson is such a lazy, pathetic sack of shit that he even half-asses being a fan of things. He gets an idea of something from a media in his head (imaginary LGBT representation, brown-haired Link) and no one, not even the media's creator can convince him he's wrong.

 

[Raiken]

I'm surprised that Dobby is such a fan of Other M, since it's the most sexist portrayal of Samus in the whole series. For one thing, she's heavily restricted from using certain weapons or upgrades until her former commander (a man, no less) gives her permission to use them. Then there's the whole clumsy "mother/baby" metaphor that the game keeps slapping you in the face with, as if somehow Samus needs to be a mother to have any value as a person. Finally, when she meets Ridley, Samus freezes up and screams like a teenage girl seeing a penis for the first time. This is a character that has never shied away from danger, and ends up shoving several dozen super missiles up Ridley's ass, and now she's wetting her pants over him?

But no - Samus wearing heels like pretty much every woman on the planet and a suit that doesn't have her tits and ass hanging out is the REAL SEXISM, you guise!

I can't even grasp why these idiots even suport it when it actualy embodies everything they think is wrong with modern media.