Thanks to an awesome patron who joined a higher tier yesterday, one $20 slot is open! As always, patrons are the first to be notified when a sold-out tier becomes available.
This tier includes everything from all the lower tiers. Most importantly, it includes both the quarterly original sketch and access to the offsite "Secret Gallery." (above cropped image is June's Secret Gallery art - a character line-up I did as a body type study. No nudity, but the...
2018-06-30 14:58:42 +0000 UTC
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Here's chapter 6 of Merritt's Story part 2. You can read it inline or download the attached PDF.
REMINDER: If the table of contents doesn't link to the latest chapters, check out my patron feed, especially the merritt story chapter tag. Chapter posts are queued in advance for midnight, but the table of contents has to be u...
2018-06-28 05:05:01 +0000 UTC
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More sketches! This time it's Merritt, since I really needed to brush up on drawing him for the current DOTU scene. He and Pogo are about tied for the character I have the most trouble drawing... All are digital except the lower left, which is pencil.
The next chapter of Merritt's Story will be coming next week, as will June Patreon rewards and a patron card portrait I'm still working on.
I plan to resume DOTU in July at 2x pages per month (we fell below the goal to com...
2018-06-23 16:09:20 +0000 UTC
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Since I'd been sick and hadn't been doing much drawing at my computer, and then had to do a ton of traditional penci-on-paper sketches, I've been feeling especially rusty when it comes to digital art. So I decided to do some studies to get back to being comfortable drawing with an Intuos. I wanted to draw someone I haven't gotten to draw often enough, so here's Belmont! I still need to get comfortable pushing his facial expressions further since he's such a dramatic dude, but f...
2018-06-17 11:36:53 +0000 UTC
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Thank you so much for waiting for these letters while I was under the weather! <3 Pogo's May 2018 guest letters have been sent out to all processed patrons for May, so you should be getting them soon. Email letters went out a couple hours ago, so if you haven't received them, let me know.
Reminder, these letters are for May! June letters will go out at the end of the month and will include any new patrons from June 1 onward. As promised, every other month is a guest ...
2018-06-15 09:55:38 +0000 UTC
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I've been in freelance hell for the past 5 days, ever since finishing the Sketch Tier sketches, and I'm only just now coming up for air. I was hoping to work on Pogo's letters today, but my brain is too fried to create anything new at the moment, so the letters will take another day.
The good news, however, is that chapter 5 is here! :D This is a shorter one, but there will be another chapter later this month. As usual, you can read the chapter inline or download the attached...
2018-06-14 05:06:00 +0000 UTC
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Here's the last of the May sketches! If you're a Sketch Tier, Sketch+Secret Gallery Tier ($20), or Custom Card Tier patron, let me know your choice over the weekend. Otherwise I'll pick one at random.
The sketches are as follows:
17. Merritt lying down
18. Belmont in bed
19. Mercury's board (Wolfram, Pratt, Evans - lol, I didn't even need to draw all 8 of them because you pretty much get the idea ^_^)
2018-06-09 03:57:18 +0000 UTC
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Here's 13-16 of the May sketches! There's one more batch of 3 to come. If you're a Sketch Tier, Sketch+Secret Gallery Tier ($20), or Custom Card Tier patron, let me know your choice over the weekend. Otherwise I'll pick one at random.
The sketches are as follows:
13. South Sphere engineer design
14. First sketch of Samsid's bathroom (I did this a previous month but then redid it and never sent out the original)
15. Yackley with flowers in his beard
16....
2018-06-09 03:53:48 +0000 UTC
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Here's 7-12 of the sketches! if you're a Sketch Tier, Sketch+Secret Gallery Tier ($20), or Custom Card Tier patron, let me know your choice over the weekend. Otherwise, I'll pick one at random.
The sketches are as follows:
7. Archer with some poisons
8. Cheesy-stock-photo-style Merritt loves water
9. Bardia
10. Leyendecker-inspired Mercury
11. Troy
12. Bad Attitude Pogo
2018-06-09 03:50:47 +0000 UTC
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The latest batch of quarterly sketches are finally here! Thanks to everyone in the Sketch tiers for waiting! :D One of February's sketches got lost in the mail (*endless sobbing*), so there are 19 sketches this time around to account for the extra, and one patron will be getting two sketches instead of one. So, watch for 4 posts instead of the usual 3.
If you're a Sketch Tier, Sketch+Secret Gallery ($20), or Custom Card Tier patron, let me know your choice sometime over the w...
2018-06-09 03:47:31 +0000 UTC
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A few things!
May Rewards
Health-wise, I'm doing better than I was a couple weeks ago. I still have some good days and some days that fall into the void, and things are still going slower than I'd hoped, especially with May's quarterly sketches. But I'm far enough along now that I should get them posted by tomorrow night or so. That means that Pogo's May letters will go out early next week, and a card deck portrait later in the week. Thanks for wa...
2018-06-07 20:49:55 +0000 UTC
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I'm about to break for the night, and I was zoomed in and liked this crop, so I decided to share it. This is just flatted at the moment - still needs highlights and shadow, but I'm going to try to keep the shading more simple and graphic.
I'm working with f.lux in full force right now, so the values will likely need adjusting when I get back to work tomorrow, haha...
Not much demonic stuff in the current chapter of DOTU, so I thought it'd be nice to do some demon-form Pogo. :)
2018-05-31 08:37:05 +0000 UTC
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Whew, 3 chapters of Merritt's Story this month! You can read chapter 4 inline or download the attached PDF.
Chapter 5 is a short one and will come in mid-June, and I'm aiming to also post chapter 6 by the end of June if my schedule works out.
[Table of Contents]
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Book 2, Chapter 4
I’m waiting in the fifth floor lounge. Come grab me...
2018-05-31 05:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys, just letting you know that some May rewards will be delayed a bit due to my aforementioned health junk. Here's what's coming -
- Merritt's Story p2ch4 is on schedule and will post tonight/tomorrow midnight.
- The Secret Gallery illustration is halfway done and will go up either tomorrow or Friday.
- This is a Sketch Tier month, which is the thing that usually causes delays. I'm not able to work at my usu...
2018-05-30 19:33:06 +0000 UTC
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I really, really didn't want to break in the middle of that flashback, and this page was unusually simple, and my health was okay over the weekend, so I decided to just do it before going on hiatus for real.
I probably gave a better explanation of what's going on with the hiatus in response to a tumblr ask than I did here, so I'll just link it here for anyone who w...
2018-05-21 17:03:33 +0000 UTC
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Just letting you guys know that I need to take a break from DOTU.
I mentioned in my last post that we had a record number of people canceling their pledges this month. This has also been coinciding with some health and life issues for me, and it's been difficult to keep motivated through everything. I was actually going to announce a hiatus at the end of last week, but since we had some new patrons over the weekend and even hit 300 patrons, I thought I could keep going.
But n...
2018-05-14 20:45:40 +0000 UTC
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I posted this page for early access to $5+ last week, but I wanted to keep it available to patrons only instead of going public, so I had to manually switch the permissions. I *think* that means that $1 and $2 patrons wouldn't have gotten an email notification about it (correct me if I'm wrong), hence the announcement here!
You can see the Big Size™ page here on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/18661...
2018-05-14 17:02:26 +0000 UTC
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I stealthily added a new milestone goal and new reward tier on Friday, and then I wrote up a big post explaining everything and saved it as a draft. But thanks to some new and returning patrons, we've now met the new goal before I could actually announce it. XD
So here's the background info. I've hosted Google ads on DOTU's site ever since I launched in 2011, but I've grown increasingly dissatisfied with the ads, their effect on loading speed, and the way Google and other tech comp...
2018-05-14 00:30:07 +0000 UTC
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I got the okay to share this one, so here it is! Custom card for Linmayu, with a role we came up with that I find especially amusing. She is the owner of a West Sphere bar that serves booze, tea, and booze+tea, and people basically go there to drink and dance naked. And credit goes to Linmayu for the A+ name of the establishment: Tea Bag.
I have one more custom card currently in the queue, which I'm also aiming to finish this month.
THANK YOU for all the support, dude! ...
2018-05-10 18:10:57 +0000 UTC
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[5/14] This post is now available to all patrons!
[5/7] Early access for the $5+ patrons! This one will go up publicly next Monday, and we'll have three weeks in a row of pages. I'm hoping to get page 29 up for early access by the time this one goes live.
2018-05-07 16:45:14 +0000 UTC
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This is a 2-CHAPTER UPDATE! Chapter 2 went up exactly one minute ago, so skip back a post if you missed it! You can read chapter 3 inline here or download the attached PDF.
Chapter 4 will come later in the month! I'll keep you updated on the schedule.
If you've read the chapters, I'd love it if you left a comment! It's the only way I can tell if people are reading, and that helps me know whether I should jump on the next chapters or hold off and prioritize other s...
2018-05-03 05:06:59 +0000 UTC
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This is a 2-CHAPTER UPDATE! You can read chapter 2 inline here or download the attached PDF. Chapter 3 is queued to post separately in exactly one minute. :D I recommend reading the chapters together if you have the time, since it's a continuation of one event.
Thanks to one of my wonderful beta readers, I (*gasp*) caught an error in chapter 1. At the end, Merritt referred to his Monday meeting with Belmont as "tomorrow," even though the conversation took place on Frida...
2018-05-03 05:05:59 +0000 UTC
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I was hoping to have the Secret Gallery illustration done tonight, but my plans deviated a bit... So I'm still working on it, and I should finish it tomorrow. Here's a preview! Happy Merritt post-training.
As always, anyone who pledged for April will get immediate access to the art as soon as it's done, regardless of your May pledge status!
2018-05-01 05:59:39 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for the multiple notifications, but I realized that today's page went out to all patrons with the original early access comments instead of with comments that were relevant today, and without the new page link.
So anyway, chapter 4 page 27 is up here!
http://www.demonoftheunderground.com/comic/p283/
Click through for the newest info about what's coming up in terms of scheduling
2018-04-30 20:34:07 +0000 UTC
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Pogo's April letters were sent out today to snail mail patrons and yesterday to email patrons, so you should be getting them soon if you haven't already.
I swear this isn't yet another letter about people's junk! But somehow that ended up being the preview again. ^_^; We know Pogo snuck into the West Sphere recently, so here's a bit of what he thought about the West!
Here's what else is on the way - April's Secret Gallery art will probably go up on Monday because my weekend i...
2018-04-28 00:39:54 +0000 UTC
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[4/30 edit] It's up on the main site now!
http://www.demonoftheunderground.com/comic/p283/
The next early access page had to get bumped for freelance, but it should still go up by next Monday, which is a week before the next public page.
[4/22] Oh look, it's an early access page! As bad as I feel saying this, I like this little scene because the pages take like a third of the t...
2018-04-22 16:35:59 +0000 UTC
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Okay, here's the big size page with *gasp* actual art! And here it is on the main site:
http://www.demonoftheunderground.com/comic/p282/
I also mentioned this in the main site author comment, but thanks to some pages that were quicker to draw than most DOTU pages, I should be able to get $5 patrons some early access pages this month!
2018-04-16 16:42:07 +0000 UTC
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Needed a blank page in there for the sake of transition.
Yeah, it feels dumb to post just a blank page to Patreon, but it feels even more wrong to skip a page. So here, have a HIGH RES BIG SIZE plain black page. ^_^
Page 26 is coming in just a minute!
2018-04-16 16:39:47 +0000 UTC
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So I'm trying to carry on my tradition of posting a bit of card deck progress during the off weeks that I don't have other Patreon extras coming. And here's everyone's favorite nice gentle trustworthy guy, Gray >.>
The next couple weeks are going to be pretty hectic. As you guys know, I've been planning a move. I'm currently waiting for concrete news about whether my specific pets would be okay at a pet-friendly condo I'm hoping to get. If it's all clear, I'll pos...
2018-04-09 20:20:08 +0000 UTC
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At long last, here's the full 31-page chapter 1 of Merritt's Story Book 2! :D Thank you all so much for waiting for this! You can download the attached PDF or read it inline. Chapter 2 will come in 2-ish weeks. I'll keep you guys posted when I have the exact date.
[Update 11/4/2020] The PDF file now includes cover art. Just beware it's a larger file now!
[Table of...
2018-04-05 05:06:00 +0000 UTC
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