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I spent today working on (*gasp*) the card deck! I went through the entire deck and figured out which cards needed full redos, which needed tweaks+re-inks, and which needed entirely different characters. I also figured out my top priority expansion packs. When all the card art is ready, I plan to do a Kickstart...
2017-11-12 04:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post![Bob Appavu post Chapter 4, Page 11 [Nov.13 Page] +News from patreon](https://img5.xxx4fans.com/storage/1/hr/jy/66b995-019e847f-9991-7eab-bf3e-e0b4bbffceac.jpg)
So this page was delayed due to travel, but I promised that patrons wouldn't have to wait till next Monday to see it. So here it is!
Now, the news:
tl;dr: I'm adding early access comic pages to the $5+ tiers!
The longer version: I know I said before that I wasn't going to offer ear...
2017-11-09 17:32:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Day 2 of PatreCon started off with an amazing private talk from James Higa about negotiating. It was some of the most powerful information I've ever been given but ended up leaving a good half of the room near tears too. Later, we had talks from Philip DeFranco and Comic Book Girl 19.
In the afternoon, my group had...
2017-11-05 14:38:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeah I know, I look waaaaaaaaaay too happy about seeing my name on a wall here. (and nowhere near as cool and intimidating as I do in my self-portrait, hehe ^_^)
I'm at PatreCon in LA right now, and I'm learning so much about Patreon and how to be a better creator, and I'm meeting lots of other awesome creators and it's just b...
2017-11-04 04:59:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the new chapter! You can download the attached PDF or read it inline. Chapter 21 will come in either 2 or 3 weeks depending on how fast we can turn around edits.
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Chapt...
2017-11-02 05:05:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Pogo's October 2017 letters have been sent out to all processed patrons, so you should be getting them soon. Email letters went out yesterday for those who get them digitally, so if you haven't received them, let me know. (I did get one bounce-back, which I'll attempt to resend in a moment.) The $10.01 secret gallery...
2017-10-30 23:02:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This might be the last Inktober I have time to do before the end of the month, but like I said, I plan to still continue into next month until I get to all the ones I want to do.
This one is inspired by the scene in chapter 1 where Belmont first sees Merritt sparring at the military training grounds.
2017-10-28 20:28:28 +0000 UTC View Post
I posted this one on social media back when I was still artist-blocked on 12: Shattered, but I'm posting now for my patrons who aren't on the other platforms.
For this one, I took a mini break from the Merritt's Story theme to finish up this old Patreon sketch of Fat Winter Annie <3
12: Shattered just went up for $10+...
2017-10-28 00:25:46 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the one that got me stuck and made me fall behind on Inktober, but I finally managed to circle back to it. I just had a lot of trouble with the pencils for some reason. This is for $10+ patrons because it's from a scene in Merritt's story that hasn't gone up yet and won't for a pretty long time. I poste...
2017-10-28 00:20:33 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been over a year and a half since I whipped up my last creator portrait, and I'm actually going to be showing my face in public soon, so it was time for an update! I got a better likeness in this one, but it also disguises the fact that I'm kind of a bumbling dork in real life. ^_^ And of course, there's my main...
2017-10-27 17:11:33 +0000 UTC View PostI mentioned with my last DOTU update that the next chapter of Merritt's story was being pushed to next week. So while we wait, I wanted to share a bit of bonus prose.
I generally write to unwind at night before going to sleep, and to explore different characters and ideas. So here's a little excerpt from... Belmont...
2017-10-26 14:07:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the big size, and it's up on the main site!
http://www.demonoftheunderground.com/comic/p266/
Merritt's story chapter 20 will go up next week since I'm still doing edits and it'll be easier to have an alternating schedule...
2017-10-23 17:01:58 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! I just finished updating my Patreon page, and I wanted you guys to be the first to know what's going on and what my future plans are.
Comic pages will resume on Monday 10/23. I owe all of you a HUGE thank you for sticking with me while I took this very necessary time to recover from burno...
2017-10-15 19:44:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the new chapter! You can download the attached PDF or read it inline. Chapter 20 will come in about 2 weeks.
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Chapter 19
Merritt shoul...
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Sorrrrrryyyyyyy, when I saw the prompt was "gigantic," I just couldn't resist doing this scene.....
This is from Merritt's Story chapter 16. "Think any of the rumors are true?"
Chapter 19 goes up at midnight. It's gonna be... an interesting one.
2017-10-12 00:28:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I know a lot of you probably already saw this on tumblr/twitter, but of the four inktobers I plan to do this week, three are going to different pledge levels (public for this, $2+ for #7, and $10+ for #10 and #12), meaning I won't be able to do a nice batch post like I did last week. So here's #8 for those of you who aren'...
2017-10-11 12:17:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm going to be keeping more Inktobers as patrons only from here on. The ones that I don't think would have much appeal to people who haven't read Merritt's story will be shared with $2+ patrons, while as I mentioned before, the spoilery/suggestive ones will go to $10+.
This one is inspired by the chapter 3 scene in whic...
2017-10-09 20:56:10 +0000 UTC View Post
For those of you who aren't on social media, here are my first 5 sketches for Inktober. The prompts were as follows:
1. Swift (end of Merritt story ch.3, when the pigeon delivers a message from Mercury)
2. Divided (Merritt and his North/East divided loyalties)
3. Poison (Merritt story ch.17 "Belmont’s body ...
2017-10-06 21:11:31 +0000 UTC View PostSince I'm finding I can't reply individually to everyone who commented on my hiatus post and elsewhere, I'm posting here instead. So many of you have been so supportive and understanding, and I want to thank you. Like, some of you nearly made me cry, and it really means a lot to know that you guys are invested in my ...
2017-10-04 17:08:14 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, I'm letting you know that I'm going to be taking a break from DOTU, starting after today's page. It'll be at least two weeks, possibly longer.
Short version: I'm burned out and making way less than minimum wage for 50+ hours a week on DOTU and extras, so even after I get over the burnout, I can't afford...
2017-10-02 17:17:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Big size, and up on the main site:
http://www.demonoftheunderground.com/comic/p265/
I'll make a separate post about the hiatus in just a moment.
2017-10-02 17:17:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Pogo's September 2017 letters have been sent out to all processed patrons, so you should be getting them soon. Email letters went out a little earlier today for those of you who get them digitally, so if you haven't received them, let me know. The $10.01 secret gallery illustration will go up tomorrow.
In this lett...
2017-09-28 22:14:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Here it is! You can download the attached PDF or read it inline. Expect chapter 19 in a couple of weeks.
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Chapter 18
Merritt was taking a risk, pokin...
2017-09-28 05:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the big size, and it's up on the main site:
http://www.demonoftheunderground.com/comic/p264/
I mentioned in the preview WIP last week that this was an 8-panel page, but I ended up spreading it across two pages, so we'll see th...
2017-09-25 16:41:56 +0000 UTC View PostIt's likely that, in the future, I'll sometimes be able to share comic pages anywhere from 1 day before release to 1-2 weeks before release. Right now, I have 2 finished pages ready and waiting. So I'm trying to see if anyone would be interested in reading pages early, or if you prefer to read at the official release...
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I posted a snippet of this kinda spoilery moment to my newly revived twitter account yesterday where I figured it'd mostly fly under the radar, but since y'all 10.01+ people are actually signed up for spoilers, I figured I'd share an even bigger preview here!
Let me know if y'all prefer I keep the spoilery stuff in the offsite...
2017-09-20 20:20:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Big size, and up on the main site with a new voting incentive!
http://www.demonoftheunderground.com/comic/p263/
2017-09-18 16:48:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 17 is here at last! This one... gets pretty NSFW. You can read it inline or download the attached PDF. I'm expecting chapter 18 to go up the week after next, on 9/28.
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2017-09-14 05:05:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The voting incentive gallery has been updated to include all but the current incentive. Seven new incentives, four of which are minicomics! There's also a lovely new password since we've had some patron turnover.
http://www.bob-artist.com/patreon...
2017-09-13 15:33:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the big size, and it's up on the main site!
http://www.demonoftheunderground.com/comic/p262/
Bunch of news and stuff on the main site. For Patreon-specific stuff: Merritt's story chapter 17 is coming this week, and I jus...
2017-09-11 17:17:05 +0000 UTC View Post
