I've finished putting together the Patreon exclusive gallery for all past TopWebcomics voting incentives! You can view it here:
http://bob-artist.com/patreon/
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To view the current voting incentive, please continue to vote as often as possible at topwebcomics.com. (Votes count once per day.) I really depend on the traffic...
2015-02-08 04:08:21 +0000 UTC
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Here's a little preview. :)
2015-02-05 22:55:39 +0000 UTC
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Here are sketches 13-16 for the $10 patrons. If you're a $10 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 send these out on Thursday, so let me know your preference sometime Wednesday. Otherwise, I'll send them out at random.
The sketches are as follows:
13. Mercury
14. Curly Annie
15. Pogo hitting on Samsid
16. Sketchy Pogo
2015-02-04 06:08:19 +0000 UTC
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Here are sketches 7-12 for the $10 patrons. Sketches 13-16 coming shortly. If you're a $10 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 send these out on Thursday, so let me know your preference sometime Wednesday. Otherwise, I'll send them out at random.
The sketches are as follows:
7. Young Pogo
8. Sketchy Samsid
9. Three Queens and a Robot Emu (the South Sphere does things a little differentl...
2015-02-04 06:06:30 +0000 UTC
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Here are the first six sketches for the $10 patrons. Sketches 7-12 and 13-16 coming shortly. If you're a $10 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 send these out on Thursday, so let me know your preference sometime Wednesday. Otherwise, I'll send them out at random.
There are 16 total sketches to replace one that got lost in the mail in a previous month. (Nessa, you can request 2 this mon...
2015-02-04 06:03:22 +0000 UTC
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New page and new voting incentive are up! Here's the big size!
2015-02-02 18:03:52 +0000 UTC
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The January livestream will be tomorrow, Saturday, from 2pm to 4pm CT, at this link here. I’ll either work on another card deck portrait or I’ll convert a b/w page to color. Anyone is welcome to join.
https://www.picarto.tv/live/channel.php?watch=bobartist
Regarding Pogo's February letter, we have a lot of new people at the $5+ pledge level, which is AWESOME! For those of you who've never receiv...
2015-01-30 21:29:27 +0000 UTC
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Thank you so much to those of you who popped in for tonight's livestream! I inked and painted that card deck sketch of Sol. Here's the finished art, done just in time for the end of the livestream.
2015-01-30 04:08:21 +0000 UTC
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I'll be hosting my belated December livestream tonight at 8pm CT. I'll be working on a card deck portrait. I'll be live for about two hours. Here's the link where you can watch and chat:
https://www.picarto.tv/live/channel.php?watch=bobartist
The official January livestream will most likely be on Saturday.
2015-01-29 16:09:47 +0000 UTC
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Today's page! Also, I'm planning this month's and last month's livestreams for later this week - probably Thursday and Saturday.
(sorry for the double post - the original was blurry because I forgot to sharpen after resizing, and Patreon doesn't let you edit images you post...)
2015-01-27 00:18:27 +0000 UTC
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Dudes. DUDES! Look how awesome you are!
Thank you so much for getting DOTU to our $250 milestone goal! This means that I'll now begin converting some of the scenes from the comic into full color. This is something I've been wanting to do for a long time, so I'm very happy! I've especially been wanting to color the opening scene, so I'll probably start there.
Also, the $10 slots are all sold out now, so I'll start putting together an alternate $10 tier and maybe an additional tier at $20 o...
2015-01-22 06:08:18 +0000 UTC
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New page is up!
2015-01-19 22:48:10 +0000 UTC
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Here's the big version of the newest page! And if you didn't see, this week's voting incentive is a full color version of a previous page, which should give you an idea of what you can expect if/when we reach my next milestone goal. I might still play around with technique, but I think I'm on the road to figuring out this whole "color" thing. ^_^
2015-01-12 22:55:20 +0000 UTC
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Here's a little preview. :)
2015-01-09 22:34:09 +0000 UTC
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As promised, here's the bonus info for the North Sphere Merritt-themed sketches.
1. Mercury confronts Merritt in the parking lot of a coffee shop after a card game that didn't end as expected. Short excerpt:
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Mercury packed away his deck and then rose to his feet. “Well, Merritt. It was nice having coffee with you. I wish you the best with your future in the military.”
Merritt recognized Mercury’s words as a permanent goodbye, and he swallowed his disappointment. “Yes, King. ...
2015-01-08 08:31:14 +0000 UTC
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Here are sketches 7-13 for the $10 patrons. LOTS of North Sphere Merritt here. I've been working on writing his back story in prose form for about a year now, off and on, and I figured I'd draw a few scenes. I would also like to release the entire story at some time, most likely at the $2+ level or as a PDF for purchase, and most likely with bonus illustrations. But it won't be in the near future, and my plans aren't written in stone yet.
Regarding the scenes with Merritt, I'll only include...
2015-01-08 08:10:32 +0000 UTC
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Here are the first six sketches for the $10 patrons. Sketches 7-13 coming shortly, along with a third post of additional info for $2+ patrons. If you're a $10 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 send these out on Friday, so let me know your preference sometime Thursday. Otherwise, I'll send them out at random.
The sketches are as follows:
1. Pogo in his work uniform (we'll see him wea...
2015-01-08 07:55:28 +0000 UTC
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I think this page benefits from being at a larger size... And as promised, here's a bit of bonus info:
You guys have already seen the common room at Yackley's Booze and Drugs, but the VIP lounge is only open to the underground's elite (like, you have to be 9 or higher in the card deck). So we get to see some important people here -
Top panel, there's Belmont to the far left (North Sphere right hand), then Noble (South Sphere Queen) and Iris (South Sphere Queen). For those of you who remembe...
2015-01-06 00:29:18 +0000 UTC
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Thank you to everyone for your support in December! Since there was no new page this week, I wanted to give you a bit of an update on what's going on.
December's monthly livestream was postponed, but I'll reschedule it ASAP. I'm running a little behind schedule on everything due to the crummy way December ended for me, but as things currently stand, there should not be a delay in delivering rewards (which I generally do within a few days of all payments being processed). I'll keep you all po...
2015-01-01 23:21:38 +0000 UTC
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Here's the second of the two pages I didn't post here before.
2014-12-28 23:02:01 +0000 UTC
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Ahhh, did I really forget to post these two pages on Patreon? I'm so sorry!
2014-12-28 23:01:09 +0000 UTC
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Here are some process shots of the environment I've been working on. I still have to build the VIP room (and I'll have to do it fast because that's where the next scene takes place!), but we'll spend quite a bit of time here in the main room in chapter 3.
2014-12-14 22:01:34 +0000 UTC
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I'm getting closer to finishing up my design work for Yackley's Booze and Drugs, the most popular bar in the underground. I've pretty much completed the main room, but I still need to make the VIP lounge (which is, unfortunately, the first room to appear in the comic, so I have to hurry!). I should be able to post some progress work on that very soon, but in the meantime, here's a shot of one of the signs that appears in the bar.
2014-12-12 08:26:46 +0000 UTC
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Big version of today's page!
2014-12-08 23:26:03 +0000 UTC
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Pogo's November letter for the $5+ patrons have been sent today, as have the original sketches for the $10+ patrons. For current $5 patrons outside the U.S., the letter has been sent by email. Here's a little preview.
Happy Friday, everyone!
2014-12-06 01:19:13 +0000 UTC
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As promised, here's a bit of additional information on the characters that haven't already been introduced or discussed. (For information on Sol, the West Sphere dog, check my activity feed for November's posts.)
Roan Bardia (top left) - West Sphere King, and basically Samsid's arch nemesis. Being right at home as the King in charge of the sphere whose specialty is human trafficking, he's obviously not an admirable guy. I won't say too much more about him because we're going to meet him in t...
2014-12-04 09:43:42 +0000 UTC
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Here are the sketches 7-12 for the $10 patrons. If you're a $10 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. Patreon payments aren't quite done processing, so I plan to send these out with Pogo's letters early Friday. So let me know your preference sometime today (Thursday). Otherwise, I'll send them out at random.
This batch includes several supporting characters, and not all of them have been introduced ...
2014-12-04 09:12:25 +0000 UTC
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Here are the first six sketches for the $10 patrons. If you're a $10 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. Patreon payments aren't quite done processing, so I plan to send these out with Pogo's letters early Friday. So let me know your preference sometime today (Thursday). Otherwise, I'll send them out at random.
This batch includes several supporting characters, and not all of them have been i...
2014-12-04 09:05:43 +0000 UTC
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New page for today!
2014-12-01 22:24:08 +0000 UTC
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Livestream is about to start now!
https://www.picarto.tv/live/channel.php?watch=bobartist
2014-12-01 01:32:14 +0000 UTC
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