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

[The Littlest Shitlord]

There's also the way the coloring is done where it looks like everything has a layer of dirt covering them

Just like Dobson probably

 

[UtopiaGuy]

Just like Dobson probably

I guess he's tracing that, too.

 

[ducktales4gameboy]

Those look like they were drawn with the airbrush from one of those terrible t-shirt booths that show up at carnivals.

 

[Kamen Rider Black RX]

Okay, I know this is a minor thing but Dobson's love of Nero Wolfe. "Fat, lazy detective who grows orchids and eats gourmet food 24/7." That's not Wolfe's character. While Wolfe lives a life of utmost hedonism, it is also heavily regimented. He doesn't eat food whenever he likes, he eats his meals at very specific times and does not like to be interrupted. Same with the growing of orchids, he'll live clients waiting when it's flower time. That's the kind of life of comfort Wolfe can afford, something that Archie (the POV character who does the leg work of the investigation) criticizes at times.

Also, DETECTIVE CONAN or CASE CLOSED. Dobson is the only person I know who has ever referred to it as Detective Boy Conan. Meitantei means great detective. Where the hell did he pick this up, some bootleg VHS tapes or something... though that would make sense considering his "I liked anime before it was mainstream" gripes.

To me, it seems Dobson loves mysteries because the detectives make everyone else look stupid. Holmes, Wolfe, Conan Edogawa, those characters run mental circles around others. Holmes can tell a person's profession through a handshake, Wolfe can see the big picture his investigator fails to, and even as a teen Kudo was showing up trained police officers. These were intellectual characters compared to the standard muscular heroes that Dobson hates, but even they got physical.

 

[ducktales4gameboy]

Detective Boy Conan

He got this from some ancient fansub that was floating around back in the dark ages of pre-bittorrent filesharing when Kazaa/Limewire were popular. Finding and deleting the shitty anime stash was an important step in actually being able to save your work on the lab computers in my highschool.

 

[Cedric_Eff]

I’m shocked that he’s into Meitantei Conan.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

I’m shocked that he’s into Meitantei Conan.

I’m guessing it was a show he saw before he considered anime mainstream and much like his fedora will forever be annoyed that anime inspired western art became a cliche and not something unique to him.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

annoyed that anime inspired western art became a cliche and not something unique to him.

So you're saying Dobsoy is a hipster?

 

[Cedric_Eff]

Has Dobson done any traditional artwork? (I.e. Illustration with water colors?)

 

[Pickle Inspector]

So you're saying Dobsoy is a hipster?

He does like to be a contrarian:

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[Tanti-Fanti]

He does like to be a contrarian:

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God, you remind me of how much Dobson reminds me of those edgelords you saw in middle school. They always thought that by being "honest" (an asshole), and being contrarian to everyone else's opinion's that they were somehow cooler than everyone else. When in reality, people thought they were jerks and could give less of a fuck.

Also, his shading is awful. I know a bunch of early to mid 2000's work used that type of shading, but by even that point it was starting to get old.

 

[Cedric_Eff]

God, you remind me of how much Dobson reminds me of those edgelords you saw in middle school. They always thought that by being "honest" (an asshole), and being contrarian to everyone else's opinion's that they were somehow cooler than everyone else. When in reality, people thought they were jerks and could give less of a fuck.

Also, his shading is awful. I know a bunch of early to mid 2000's work used that type of shading, but by even that point it was starting to get old.

I think that’s why he considers himself as a LGBT Ally because it’s the new edgy shit.

 

[Count groudon]

He does like to be a contrarian:

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If there are two things that makes Dobson’s Chode turtle out from between his fat rolls, it’s underaged lesbians, and the chance to disagree with someone over something ridiculously trivial.

 

[UtopiaGuy]

One of his motivations is to be noticed by the SJW elite and praised for being woke. I'm not sure what he thinks he would gain from that, if it ever happened. Certainly not money or job offers in a professional field (such as animation or comics). I'm almost convinced he sees it as a shortcut to fame and fortune, but the odds are simply not in his favor. Even if he had actual talent and a work ethic, a retweet by @WokeLezz or @DicklessSmith or whoever isn't worth a whole hell of a lot in the long run. All I can think of is that he has a desperate need for that kind of validation, but that kind of fame is fleeting. I can see him ten years from now, still bragging about that time the famous SJW retweeted him, despite still being the failure he is today only ten years older.

 

[Kamen Rider Black RX]

One of his motivations is to be noticed by the SJW elite and praised for being woke. I'm not sure what he thinks he would gain from that, if it ever happened. Certainly not money or job offers in a professional field (such as animation or comics). I'm almost convinced he sees it as a shortcut to fame and fortune, but the odds are simply not in his favor. Even if he had actual talent and a work ethic, a retweet by @WokeLezz or @DicklessSmith or whoever isn't worth a whole hell of a lot in the long run. All I can think of is that he has a desperate need for that kind of validation, but that kind of fame is fleeting. I can see him ten years from now, still bragging about that time the famous SJW retweeted him, despite still being the failure he is today only ten years older.

Really, I feel the whole thing is him wanting recognition. By being a woke ally, he separates himself from the athletic dudebros he so dispises. Because, hey, if he can't be commended for being smart (his detective interests) or his art work and he sucks at sports, people will praise him for being a good person.

Meanwhile, he has repeatedly proven himself to be lazy, selfish, condescending, vengeful, fat, bald, immature, ill-informed, reactionary, misogynistic, hypocritical and just plain scummy.

 

[MysticMisty]

There's also the way the coloring is done where it looks like everything has a layer of dirt covering them

Not that today is much better, but Dobson's coloring during his brown phase was especially bad. Mario games have been very colorful since Super Mario Bros. 3, something the series is famous for. Even when other companies were on board the "real is brown" fad the Mario games did not steer away from this. Yet for a time Dobson believed that for art vibrant colors were bad and muting everything with brown was better.

 

[Kojiro Brushard]

There is no easy way to get to the top in art and comics. If you have crap art then you have to have really exceptional writing to make up for it. If you have poor writing then you have to have exceptional art. There are minor shortcuts but the exposure you get from doing certain topical things is only good for how long that topical thing stays relevant.

Though Dobby with his lazy drive found the SJW the most appealing since it takes no effort to be one. Too bad its the most broke crowd.

I had more to say but that part of my head seem to have exploded... lost my train of thought

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

Has Dobson done any traditional artwork? (I.e. Illustration with water colors?)

He did some actual ink drawings for Inktober several years back. I don't think he actually did an illustration every day but the ones that he made (that weren't traced) were pretty nice. People commented that and his reaction was super weird, he was almost offended that people were so into his traditional drawings over his usual stuff. As for other traditional media, I've wondered that too. He has mentioned in a comic not being able to paint well, and a looooong time ago he wrote a journal about how he went to a life drawing session somewhere and was working with traditional media. He also noted things that he didn't do well and mentioned ways he could improve, so that was probably a short apperance of alternate universe Dobson.

 

[UtopiaGuy]

More likely from his MCAD days, where he would've been forced to take life drawing.

IIRC, Dobson claims (key word there) that his hand shakes, preventing him from using traditional media because he can't hit "undo" or take advantage of the automatic line correction features in digital software. I kind of want to call bullshit on that, but who knows what meds he's on (if any) are affecting him physically. The digital tools are great, but he overdoes it to the point that his art is dead, dead, dead. He really needs to get back to actual, real, physical pencils and paper. Even Fomera has more life in it than anything he's made in the last few years, li'l lesbians notwithstanding.

 

[MysticMisty]

IIRC, Dobson claims (key word there) that his hand shakes, preventing him from using traditional media because he can't hit "undo" or take advantage of the automatic line correction features in digital software.

You would have to have severe shaking on par with Parkinson's to be unable to do life drawing sketches and painting. Pencil and ink would be a lot more obvious for even mild shaking, but if you truly loved the medium that wouldn't stop you. It's just Dobson's typical excuses for why he doesn't want to do something because he wasn't instantly great at it.