Bob Appavu

[WIP] Card Portraits

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 Kickstarter. (for just the ca...

Chapter 4, Page 11 [Nov.13 Page] +News

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 early access to comic p...

PatreCon Day 2, and DOTU update

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 a really interestin...

PatreCon, Day 1

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 been really great. :D...

Devoted - Merritt's Story - Chapter 20

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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Pogo's October 2017 Letters Have Been Sent!

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 illustration should...

Inktober 17: Graceful

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.

Inktober 16: Fat

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+ patrons.  17: ...

Inktober 12: Shattered

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 posted 16: Fat on social ...

2017 Creator Portrait, PatreCon 2017

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 man Ebo.

This yea...

Bonus Prose: Belmont

I 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's story?

In t...

Chapter 4, Page 10

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 with DOTU pages. &n...

Hiatus Update +Patreon Revamp

Hey 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 burnout and figure out ho...

Devoted: Merritt's Story - Chapter 19

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 should have known Mercury...

[NSFW] Inktober 10 - Gigantic

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.

Inktober 8 - Crooked

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't on social media! 2017-10-11 12:17:43 +0000 UTC View Post

Inktober 7 - Shy

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 which Merritt invites To...

Inktober 1-5

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 was sweet poison, an...

Thank you/Follow-up

Since 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 work.  DOTU is ...

Hiatus

Hey 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 to keep working on ...