/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6963496
Maybe, but really, I just think he never grew up. He responded to people like a child and threw temper tantrums up to the end. Maybe he was autistic, I don't know; but either way, leaving the internet was for the best for him.

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>>1891170
>I think this guy is pretty good.
Well. You're wrong.
>His line work is good and his colors are nice.
His linework is extremely mediocre, and his colors are not especially better. Mediocrity is the trademark of his work.
>Why the hate?
Because he's a self-righteous, stuck-up, whiny asshole. Pic related exemplifies his behavior - and yes, it is from 2006. He hasn't changed an iota.

The irony, of course, being that no one would give half a toss about him if he wasn't such a prick.

>>1775849
>But I really don't think he's a bad person,
Well. You're wrong. He's self-absorbed, egotistical, prone to fits of rage even when trolling isn't remotely involved*, seems to think the world owes him something*, lazy, attention-seeking, bandwagon jumper, and a hypocrite. He's a thirty+ year old man who acts like a child and lacks any sort of maturity, and uses his comic to constantly mock and insult people even if he was in the wrong. These aren't the qualities of a good person.

>harmless
Being harmful isn't a requirement for being a bad person. Preston's a bad person simply because he doesn't try to improve himself at all, even outside his art. He hasn't grown at all since he started SYAC - hell, he seems to have gotten worse. At present he shows no inclination towards growing up at all.

>>1502534
Who are these people? Because they're wrong.
>>1502535
He's not improving so much as he is putting in a bit more effort. It look superficially better, but a lot of the problems are still there.
>>1502647
Last I check he wasn't making all that much money off his comics. He even posted a journal on DA whining about how few sales he was getting.

>>1453528
>All this time you guys have been saying my works are shit, but when I ask you to post your own works or works that are superior to mine and follow all the rules of art you adhere to you never do it.
Completely irrelevant. It has been every time you've said so and will be every time you say so.
>Also, most works on /ic/ suck but you guys never criticize those like you do mine.
I criticize plenty, and I see plenty of critiques, so I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.
>Then you say my best work like this one sucks because of wrong anatomy.
It doesn't just suck because of anatomy, that's just the most glaring error besides the shit tier color job.
>You guys are never going to make good works because you are so obsessed with and bogged down in getting the basics.
You ever heard of Miyamoto Musashi? If you haven't he was quite possibly the greatest swordsman who ever lived, fighting over 60 duels by the time he was thirty and never having lost.

If you read the Book of Five Rings, he repeatedly emphasizes the virtue of being in touch with basic skills.

What's the point? The point is that art, like swordsmanship, is a skill, and like any skill, the basics are fucking important - that's why they're the basics. You will never make great work because of you lack of ability, just like how someone with no ability in swordsmanship is more likely to cut off his own head than win a duel.

But feel free to keep making excuses. It makes no difference to me if you end up like Tom Preston up there, who also did not want to study the basics, and have no success. Pic related.