>It looks better than the garbled out mess he does now
>It's a John K hate thread
>>77404314
still better than dobson
>>77404628
Didn't Dobson also used to be good at art?
>>77404671
Lol
>>77404314
>>77404365
Didn't he used to make fun of this Geometric cartoon style?
>>77404671
haha no
>>77404628
He had potential. But he squandered it all building himself a cross.
>>77404850
>building himself a cross
more like a pillow fort
>>77404708
No, on the contrary he did it because he thought it was COOL.
>>77404684
>>77404741
Okay let me rephrase
Didn't Dobson used to not suck as much at art as he does now?
>>77404987
I don't think so
>>77404987
His art style and technical proficiency, even at its peak, was not good enough to become an addition to a funny paper. That says everything.
If you want to say more than everything, understand that he flunked art school and had to rely on 12-year-old fans to have an art "career"
>>77404987
He's vastly better now than he was years ago.
>>77404314
God damn, that's contemporary
>>77404314
>>77404365
All the hard core drugs destroyed his brain, there fore greatly affeting his artistic skill
>>77404365
>>77404314
He swapped corners for curves. That's all.
>>77405038
>>77406710
You sure?
>>77406757
Something tells me you havent seen any of his recents stuff. They are literally scribbles. He didnt swap so much as did complete " style" over haul.
>>77406871
Those are both shit.
>>77406979
True, neither are spectacular, the one on the left actually shows style, time, and effort.
The one on the right is Garfield.
>>77407047
Could be that the client wanted something more stylized and simple and 'Garfield'. I freelance, it happens.
>>77404628
It takes skill to make a cartoon bear so fucking annoying
>>77407904
Not the case thoughActually it was someone who bought a commission from him just to show people how lazy and unreliable he is with commissions.
>>77407047
Sideways gun aside, neither is terrible.
>>77408015
>>77408013
Alright I'll take it back.
>>77404628
>>77406871
I think he's alright, but what do I know? I can't draw. I just wish I could.
>tfw 100 dorrus short of a new tablet
>>77408360
Draw, or do not. Wishing gets you no where.
>>77408013
Fair enough. To be fair I don't think either of the drawings are that great ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>>77408994
I have very poor fine motor skills and can barely write my name. That makes it significantly more difficult.
>>77409171
I have awful handwriting and I'm a professional artist. Plenty of artists work in a rougher style.
![7b5cd0ea04c7037b15e6a36d6ffc5399[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/AM8oqHD.jpg "7b5cd0ea04c7037b15e6a36d6ffc5399[1].jpg")
>>77409171
learn impressionism
>>77408013
Gotta say his linework is great (really professional-tier) but his inking and coloring sucks ass.
Look at the pointy knee-thing on Samus's leg-thing. In the pencil stage it looks really good but after ink and color it looks flat and misshapen.
Hand went from good anatomy to noodles in the ink stage.
Dunno. Just inconsistent work, even though the guy's talented.
>>77406900
Many artists, as they get older and mature, start to abandon external things and principles in favor of their internal idioms. As far as they're concerned, adherence to technical standards they already know is tedium, an exercise in pleasantries with artistic plebes and banal masses that get in the way of their own personal explorations.
When the end result is successful, we say that's an artist who has found his own voice. When it's not, we say that artist crawled too far up his own ass.
>>77409833
>not abstract expressionism
>>77410408
This is my problem and I don't know how to fix it. My sketches are great, I'm really happy with them they're crisp and full of character and movement, lots of life. I ink and/or colour and it looks flat and dead. I don't know how to fix it.
>>77404671
>>77404987
He used to be better, like, back when he was in college, but he was still not good. He's done a lot of backsliding since then.
>>77408013
This is pretty much Dobson's whole problem. He's fucking lazy.
>>77410408
>really professional-tier
Not really. And the anatomical errors are at least a dozen in that first sketch.
>>77404314
I liked his 80's art style, but I think he called it "crap" in one of his blog entries.
