Dobsons later style with the extra wrinkles and odd realistic detailing on cartoon characters bothers the hell out of me. I attempted "fixing" one of the ladybug pages as a fun exercise. Dobson could have had a decent style if he just....idk simplified??
The weird thing about it is he purposely started adding those wrinkles and “detail lines” to his art style because he got a big up his ass about anime going “mainstream” and people doing it better than him. Like it’s not even that he forgot how to draw well, he was basically making himself draw worse thinking it was better because “not anime/manga style”.
That being said, nice work on the art correction. Reminds me of when the blog was more active and I used to do those “Dob Prompts” for people.
