So, I read his recent Tweets and it got me thinking.
Where exactly does Dobson think he's going with all of this? (To paraphrase How to Train Your Dragon - "You just gestured to all of me." "Exactly.")
I mean, I'll go ahead and be optimistic, I gather that he wants to go somewhere professional with this? I mean, I take the Stephen Universe Story Boarder tweet as a sign that he does at least want to move up in the professional artistic world but... His behaviour seems to be counter intuitive to this.
Dobson, I'd once have been skeptical about your reading this thread. Then I saw the "Andrew Dobson Thread Bingo" comic and do wonder.... So I'll phrase this as though I'm speaking to you.
Where do you think you are going? Like... You tweeted about Portfolios being hard. Okay. You think you are going to march into an interview with the Stephen Universe execs, have a mediocre portfolio, say "Well, look, I've been through literal hell. People online have been bullying me for a decade. I had a break down in 2012 and I'm just building up again." and they are going to just go "Sir. I sympathize with your struggles. You're just the sort of man we want on our team. We need no evidence that you can perform as to our specifications. YOU'RE HIRED!"
You tweet about your work people criticizing as though they are these frivolous doodles and it's ridiculous that they are taking them seriously.
Then what exactly do you think you are going to impress the Stephen Universe execs with?
I just... Don't get you Dobson. I mean, what is your plan? To be living off of Patreon money making doodles about how omg it's such bullshit that they put guys on the princess leia comic and that's toxic masculinity omg when you are in your sixties?
If you are a young professional who is really gunning for a job at Stephen Universe... Then you are either terribly misguided, Stephen Universe has very low standards, or... I wonder why you hide your quality work so much.
If you are reading this, I am sure you are thinking it's like "Be as NASTY as you want! Then say it's to help you develop."
No. It's not. I'm not trying to help you develop. I'm trying to understand this myself. To understand where you think you are going... I mean... I'm quite serious... Say you had been right on the ball with that Stephen Universe thing... How do you think the interview would have gone?
Do you think they would have gone "Oh you poor man. You are hired because you've had such a tough time." or do you think when they vocalized concerns about weaknesses in your work that they would have accepted "It's just a doodle"?
I don't get you, Dobson. Sure, I don't work in the arts but as a professional, I just don't get you...