Bob Appavu

Video: Ch04P06 Landscape 10x Speed Painting

Here's a 10x speed video of me spending an hour and a half painting a landscape that'll end up getting covered by a giant speech balloon. XD  I may also record some of the character painting and post it later...

I'm posting it for 10.01+ patrons since you kind of get to see the whole page early, including text if you pause.  I'll release it for $2+ patrons when the page goes live.

The first few steps weren't recorded, so I just quickly showed them on separate layers at the begi...

A Sketch+Secret Gallery Tier Slot is Open

As always, current patrons are the first to hear about new openings in limited tiers!  The $20 Sketch+Secret Gallery tier is, as the name implies, the slot that gives you both an original sketch in the mail AND offsite secret gallery access.  It's always been super limited because I only have time for 17-18 sketches per rotation, and I can only open new $20 slots when a $10 Sketch Tier slot becomes vacant.

This month, I was able to open a new $20 slot.  PLEASE NOTE before signin...

Merritt's Story - Chapter 8 Free Excerpt

This is a free excerpt from chapter 8 of Merritt's story.

So far, I've posted up to chapter 16 in Merritt's story, for a total of 314 pages and 103k words.  But since the current scene of DOTU involves Merritt and Troy, I thought it'd be nice to release a free excerpt from one of the chapters showing the first time the two of them met.  For the full scene, $2+ patrons can read 2017-09-05 15:03:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 4, Page 05

Big size, and up on the main site with a new voting incentive!

http://www.demonoftheunderground.com/comic/p261/

Pogo's August 2017 Letters Have Been Sent (+a note to Texas patrons)

Pogo's August 2017 letters have been sent out to all processed patrons, so you should be getting them soon.  Email letters went out yesterday 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 letter, Pogo mostly worries about how Merritt's doing...

I know several of my patrons are in the areas of Texas and Louisiana that are affected by Harvey.  I hope you're all okay ...

Chapter 4, Page 04

Big size, and up on the main site!

http://www.demonoftheunderground.com/comic/p260/

August 2017 Sketch Tier Sketches 13-18

Here are sketches 13-18 for the June/July/August Sketch tier rotation.  If you are a Sketch Tier, Sketch+Secret Gallery Tier ($20), or Custom Card Tier ($50) patron and you have a preference as to which sketch you want, post here and let me know.  It'll be on a first come, first served basis.  I plan to pack letters on Monday, so let me know sometime over the weekend.

The sketches are as follows:

13. Littlehands is proud of Pogo's puppet

14. Annie the Conquerer

August 2017 Sketch Tier Sketches 7-12

Here are sketches 7-12 for the June/July/August Sketch tier rotation.  Sketches 13-18 coming shortly.  If you are a Sketch Tier, Sketch+Secret Gallery Tier ($20), or Custom Card Tier ($50) patron and you have a preference as to which sketch you want, post here and let me know.  It'll be on a first come, first served basis.  I plan to pack letters on Monday, so let me know sometime over the weekend.

The sketches are as follows:

7. Casual Pogo with his hands casually in...

August 2017 Sketch Tier Sketches 1-6

Here are sketches 1-6 for the June/July/August Sketch tier rotation.  Sketches 7-18 coming shortly.  If you are a Sketch Tier, Sketch+Secret Gallery Tier ($20), or Custom Card Tier ($50) patron and you have a preference as to which sketch you want, post here and let me know.  It'll be on a first come, first served basis.  I plan to pack letters on Monday, so let me know sometime over the weekend.

This month, we have a handful of environment concepts for upcoming DOTU scenes...

Chapter 4 Cover - Mobile Wallpaper Pack

Here's another wallpaper request!  It's the chapter 4 cover without text.  The pack includes multiple sizes, but you'll generally get the best looking results by choosing the biggest image that's proportional to your screen.  

And as a reminder - I always take requests from patrons to make any existing DOTU art into a wallpaper.  That includes comic panels.  (I work at a very large size, so I can usually retain quality even with relatively small panels.)  If you w...

Merritt's Story - Chapter 16

Chapter 16 is here!  You can read it inline or download the attached PDF.  Chapter 17 will come in a couple weeks, most likely 9/7.  I would have liked to not have an off week between 16 and 17 either, but alas, I need time for edits, and the upcoming DOTU scene I'm also working on is super labor intensive.

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Chapter 16

2017-08-24 05:05:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 4, Page 03

Here's the big size, and it's up on the main site!

Also, a $50 slot just opened up, and as promised, you patrons are hearing about it before anyone else.  That's the tier that gets a custom card portrait.  If anyone is interested in pledging, please remember that I have a "charge upfront" campaign, so if you pledge before the end of the month, you will be immediately charged the difference between your current pledge and $50, and then you will be charged $50 again on the first of Sep...

A bit of "secret" bonus info...

Remember these guys?

This is only kind of a secret since their card deck portraits have been online in discreet places for a while, but it's definitely not common knowledge.  So, here's a little extra context for y'all $10.01+ folks who also read Merritt's story:

Left - Mannheim

Right - Devon

This was when Merritt decided to confront Gray at Yackley's.  These two *know* Merritt.  Hence their reactions.  It took this long for them to be suitably introduced ...

Chapter 4, Page 02

Big size, and up on the main site!  The Merritt-story-themed voting incentive from Monday is still up too!

http://www.demonoftheunderground.com/comic/p258/

Merritt's Story - Chapter 15

At long last, here's chapter 15!  It's the longest

Chapter 4, Page 01

Here's the big size!  It's also up on the main site with a new voting incentive.  We're reeeeally low on TWC this month and I lost a whole lot of traffic from the site move, so votes are especially appreciated right now!

Also, this Thursday we're getting August's bonus page and the next chapter of Merritt's story!

http://www.demonoftheunderground.com/comic/p257/

2017-08-14 16:52:49 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 4, Page 00

We're back!!!!!  Nice early update for the big return! :D

Lots of news and schedule info on the main page:

http://www.demonoftheunderground.com/comic/p256/

And a preview of page 1 as the new voting incentive!

http://www.topwebcomics.com/vote/12963

Also, I'm testing out the new Patreon feature where a...

Little Preview of the Chapter 4 Cover!

Here's a WIP shot of the chapter 4 cover!  Only a few more days till updates start again! :O

Pogo's July 2017 Letters Have Been Sent

Pogo's July 2017 letters have been sent out to all processed patrons, so you should be getting them soon.  Email letters have also been sent out for those of you who get them digitally, so if you didn't receive them, let me know.  Then $10.01 drawing also went up last week.

Those of you who've been getting letters for a long time know that Pogo's been wanting to get into Samsid's "castle" for ages!  Well, now that he's finally seen what it looks like, we get to hear what he thin...

Devoted: Merritt's Story - Chapter 14

Here's chapter 14!  You can read it inline or download the attached PDF.  Chapters 15 and 16 are both very big, and I want to post them on consecutive weeks, so next week will be an off week.  I currently plan to have 15/16 on 8/10 and 8/17, but this could potentially be delayed a week since DOTU is starting up again on 8/7.

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Chapter 14 2017-07-27 05:05:00 +0000 UTC View Post