[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.
PLAGIARY!!!!
