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Aside from that I also think that it is in no-one's right to tell another person how art should be made. Just because you're an artist everyone looks up to, who makes thousands of dollars a year with just making art and who has thousands of fans. It still doesn't mean you can go to someone else and say 'Hey you, you're doing it wrong'. I've been in the art scene as well and I have my share of fans who stay by my side even though it's been years since I made anything. And one thing I noticed is that for every nice person trying to help someone out, there's at least 2 assholes who think their way is the only right way.
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And just because you’re an artist everyone looks up to, who makes thousands of dollars a year with just making art and who has thousands of fans, it also doesn’t mean you are above criticism or that you have the right to have such a shitty attitude towards your work and your critics.
There is a difference between sticking with an established style and technique because on a subjective level you prefer them (i.e. drawing cartoons instead of realism is a perfectly valid stylistic choice) and actively refusing to try and improve your admittedly mediocre technical skills despite being told by your peers that there is an objectively better way (i.e. Dobson coloring on the same Photoshop layer as his lineart, using the fill bucket to color, having no idea what anti-aliasing is,
using the default color swatches instead of coming up with his own palettes, shading with black instead of hues, etc.).
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When people ask me for advice I'm sure I will tell them a few things that would make professional writers cringe and would make digital artists facepalm. But guess what, they didn't ask them for advice, they asked me for advice. That means that they like the art style and want to know how they can create something similar. So I tell them how I do what I do. That's not necessarily the best way to do it, but its how I make the work my fans love.
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So if someone comes along and tells you “hey there is a better, more efficient way to do this exact same thing” do you dig you heels in and shit all over the people offering advice?
Because that is what Dobson does and it is shitty.
If someone asks you for advice, sure, you tell them what you know – because how you can you tell someone a method you don’t know yourself? That’s fine. But you don’t sit there and ignore perfectly sound advice when someone offers it, especially when you’re
supposed to be a professional.
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The same exact thing applies to Dobson. He does what he does best, make silly simple comics with ill informed punch lines. And apparently people like him enough for doing that and want to make something similar. What good is it going to do them if they ask a super experienced artist who is specialized in super realistic art if all they want to draw is comics?
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Except any decent artist, illustrator or cartoonist will tell you that before you set off and start your zany comic
you need an understanding of the basics like anatomy, perspective and realism. And emulating the techniques of someone who clearly doesn’t is going to harm your work in the long run.
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Fact remains that people hate this guy because he's (apparently) messing up his own life. They are mad because his skill stagnated, they are somehow mad because this guy isn't what he could be. And if that's the case, creating these flaming websites and video's isn't the way to convince him to do better.
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Well nothing else has worked, so why not go public? At the very least third party bystanders can benefit from what is being shown.
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The guy isn't harming anyone, he's doing his own thing and people get a good laugh out of his stuff.
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No I’m pretty sure he’s actively harming the people who look up to him by passing on terrible advice, holding up his own mediocre work as something to aspire to, and having an absolutely terrible attitude towards criticism for a role model.
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And if that isn't the case and people just hate him, go find something better to do with your time.
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And now these guys are almost dedicating their life to pointing out every single flaw and mistake this guy makes. Its pathetic to even watch, to be honest.
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Also no, it’s laughable that you think like this. People don’t sit every hour of the day writing Dobson hatemail; they follow threads and read blogs and sometimes write about it themselves.
It’s silly to believe that because a lot of people are doing one thing, they must logically all be spending all of their time doing it or that they are unable to do this in addition to leading their normal life. “Go find something better to do with your time”? They probably do, immediately after spending ten minutes reading some stuff about the guy!
