[part 1]

Here is where I show that Alphonso Dunn is literally delusional and people shouldn’t take his words for gospel.

First is the suspicious page from Inktober book preview.

It was what initially convinced me that the Inktober book is a plagiary, before I bothered to watch more of the video. But here’s the thing. I later looked at it and it’s not a copy. It’s similar in style. That is there is hair texture and bubble texture. By the way, the organic shape isn’t invention of Dunn, it’s an established texture called bubbles. I saw it in The Technical Pen book by Gary Simmons.

And even if, the upper right corner fragment may be partially based on Dunn’s book. But the rest of the page isn’t.

The images are similar on surface but layout, flow, etc, are different.

Dunn’s book has instruction about realistic texture, three examples how variety adds interest, three examples about texturing the outline and three examples showing that less is more.

What we see in Inktober book is Texture with and without variety and following form and not.

There’s no copying of flow, no copying of layout.

What happened is that Alphonso Dunn saw something vaguely similar and then started spinning an entire conspiracy theory where Jake Parker plagiarized his book.

Then we have him claiming that Jake Parker copied his page layout when it comes to tools. Does he even understand what layout is?

Jake Parker’s book has descriptions in the centre and he has them on the left. Jake Parker has tool images on both sides of the text, he has them on the centre-right.

Then there’s whole thing where he has a huge A4 format book while Jake Parker’s book is tiny and square.

He went on and on how much effort it took him to create this layout, but it’s irrelevant since Jake Parker’s book has completely different page layout.

What?

Alphonso Dunn did that thing where he was using words that mean very specific things as buzzwords to push his agenda, which is burying Jake Parker’s book. He made vague insinuations to make people think that Jake Parker plagiarized his book, without any solid proof and now there are hordes of people that believe in that and many of them won’t get convinced otherwise due to the amount of gaslighting in the video.

Another example of supposed copied layout. Strokes in large circles. With text on the left. Obvious copy of strokes in multiple tiny squares showing variation with text under them.

I initially watched the first several minutes of the accusation video.

Are these books the same?

The most striking difference between the books is size.The Inktober book is 17x19cm, Alphonso Dunn book is A4 format - 21x29.7cm.

Okay, so there’s already a significant difference. How do you even copy someone’s book this way?

The other is amount of pages devoted to teaching:

Materials and tools start at page 46, The drawing instruction part ends at page 123. That's 77 pages, Alphonso Dunn book supplies start at page 10, instruction ends at page 164. That's 154 pages.

How is it a copy? 77 pages of a 17x19cm book are somehow a copy of 154 pages of a 21x29.7cm book?

Then what about the content?

Okay, maybe let’s start with the objections that Alphonso Dunn has. Basically, I watched first 30 minutes of his video before I had to stop because it quickly got so dumb that I just couldn’t continue to watch it.

Basically, he goes on and on about how much it took him to come up with various concepts, how many variations of line there are, etc. etc. how he was pondering upon it for months, but...

Here’s the thing. He taught it to other people for years.

When people are learning pen and ink drawing and are learning that there are 5 variations of strokes, 5 applications of strokes, 6 shades are needed for realistic drawing, etc. it becomes a part of their skillset.

It doesn’t matter how long it came up for him to come up with that stuff. Every artist uses stuff that came other people years to come up with. It’s all building up on work of other people. He’s using stroke types compiled long ago by other people, techniques that required ages to come up with but to him it’s completely normal, it’s only when other people learn something he thought on and pass it on, it’s plagiarism.

Like, it’s just so fucking dumb.

Basically he shows one page that has a suspiciously similar part and then he’s mostly grasping at straw and acting shocked and appalled that people have learned stuff he teaches and are now teaching it to others.

The secular world is unsustainable, temporary. At some point one needs to come to grip with the terrible truth.

We’re the abominable intelligence, spirits emerging from flesh, those who are trapped in mortality but feel need to be immortal, the greatest abomination of the galaxy.

Religion gives two promises:

-Of justice.

-Of immortality.

This exposes the basic human need for perpetual fair existence.

But the physical existence denies us both.

We’re born with a death sentence.

It’s our parents who sentence us to living in a shit world then disappearing.

What’s the thought process behind it?

“Yeah, I want my children to live in a world that fucking sucks!

I want them to spend most of their lives on futile toil!

I want them to be oppressed!

I want them to die!

I want my children to die!”

I suspect not.

YOU KNOW WHAT IS FIT TO LIVE?!!!

FUCKING BACTERIA, VIRUSES, TAPEWORMS, FLEAS,

JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING CAN SURVIVE IT DOESN’T MEAN IT’S FUCKING GOOD!!!

Intelligence actually decreases fitness because it increases need to control environment, need for space, need to gain specialized skills to thrive and most importantly decreases breeding.

If you people haven’t noticed we’re already there, minus food security.

IT’S FUCKING HELL ON EARTH, FUCKING PEOPLE EVERYWHERE!!!!

HEY, MORONIC CITY PLANNERS, PEOPLE WERE NEVER MEANT TO LIVE THIS CLOSE TO EACH OTHER IF THEY AREN’T A FUCKING PART OF IN-GROUP!!!!