Bob Appavu

DOTU November Livestream - Tonight, 7:30pm CT

My November Livestream is scheduled for tonight, 7:30pm CT. I'll be working on the next page of DOTU. Anyone is welcome to watch, and feel free to come and go as you please. I’ll post another notice when I’m about to start. I’ll probably stay on for a couple of hours. It will be located at the following link: 2014-11-30 22:26:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Payment Date Approaching + Various News

Hi all! I just wanted to give you guys an update on the latest goings-on. THANK YOU to everyone for your pledges! We're $16 higher this month than we were last month, and it's great to see new people signing on. Just a heads up - Patreon will begin charging everyone for November's pledges on December 1, so please be sure to log in and update yo...

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Newest page!

Tournament Grounds - Concept Process

Okay, I'm still new at this, so I don't know if this long long image will post nicely on Patreon... And I can't preview or edit it, so I'll just cross my fingers! I'm currently working on designing Yackley's Booze and Drugs, where the next scene of DOTU will take place. So I figured now might be a good time to share a bit of the process of how I...

The new page is up on the official site!

The problem with the CMS is fixed, and the new page is now up on the main site. If there was anyone who pledged just to be able to see the new page here, please know that I will totally understand if you want to cancel your pledge. I posted the page here for because I didn't want to leave the Patreon folks empty-handed, but I certainly didn't int...

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As you may have seen on the main page, I'm having technical difficulties that are preventing me from uploading the new page. You guys can see it here while I work on getting the problem fixed. (ETA: the problem has been fixed, and this post is now public)

Minor Character Preview - Ch.3/Card Deck

Here's a little preview of a minor character who will be introduced early on in chapter 3. He'll also be in the new version of the card deck that I'm trying my best to finish within the next several weeks. He'll be the new 2 of hearts, to replace a filler character in the deck who probably won't appear in the story. Anyway, his name is Sol, and ...

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Here's an early look at page 51! I'll put it up pretty soon on the official site too, just in case I'm not able to alter the site later due to moving servers, but I might not announce it on social media until early evening. (It's 5am and I should probably go to sleep! ^_^)

October Rewards Sent, and $10 Sketches 11-12

Hi Patrons! Thank you all so much for making my first month with Patreon awesome! Your pledges are making a huge difference in my ability to invest my time and attention into DOTU. I'm happy to announce that Pogo's October letter for the $5+ patrons have been sent, as have the original sketches for the $10+ patrons. For current $5 patrons outsi...

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Pogo's October 2014 Letter - Preview

Have a little preview of the October 2014 letter from Pogo! (p.s. If you're a $5 or higher patron and want to be addressed on your letter by something other than the first name on your Patreon account, send me a message and let me know.)

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Whew, there's the last of today's batch!

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Man, all that time spent on rendering Tragopan's belly button...

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I think this is my favorite page from the new batch... Two more large size pages coming in a moment! (Remember, if the email notifications get annoying, you can turn them off in your Patreon settings. I don't want to spam anyone!)

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Little preview of today's 4-page update! I expect to have the pages up later in the evening (estimating ~7:30pm CT), but this page isn't too spoilery, so you awesome Patreon folks can have an early look! :D I'll change the privacy level to "public" once the pages are all on the site.

$10 October Sketches 6-10

Here are sketches 6-10 for the $10 patrons. As I mentioned in the upload of 1-5, if you're a $10 patron and want to request a specific one of these sketches to be sent to you, leave a comment, and it'll be first come, first served. Otherwise, I'll send them out at random. In this set, we have 6. Troy and Merritt training, 7. Annie, 8. Jordana wi...

$10 October Sketches 1-5

Here's a little preview of sketches 1-5 for October's $10 patrons. I'll post sketches 6-10 in a moment. If you're a $10 patron and you want to request a specific one of these sketches to be sent to you, feel free to leave a comment, and I'll do it on a first come, first served basis. Otherwise, they'll just go out at random. They won't be maile...

DOTU: 8/29/2011 Voting Incentive

Another old voting incentive. This one shows the original sketches vs. finished pages for a scene from chapter 1. (FYI, you can turn email notifications for my posts on and off under "Edit Account," and then scroll to "Email Settings.") There were a couple of animated gifs I used as voting incentives during the weeks of 8/15 and 8/22, 2011, but ...

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Large size upload for this week's page! FYI, if you're new to Patreon and you haven't seen it already, you can go to my Patreon page and click on "creations" and "activity" to see the list of what I've uploaded so far. There were a couple of things that I put up before the page launched, including the downloadable wallpaper.

$100 Milestone Goal Reached!

Wow, you guys are AWESOME! Thank you so much for getting me to DOTU's first milestone goal! Starting next month, I will host a public livestream every month, and anyone who wants to can drop in and watch me do some artwork. Next on the milestone list: adding some full color scenes to DOTU. Looking forward to knocking that one down too! Thank y...

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Not only big, but early too! The new page is scheduled to go up on the official site at around 10am, but if any of you happen upon my brand new Patreon account first, here's your special preview. :D

Levitation Wallpaper Pack

As a thank you to everyone who's pledged, here's a wallpaper pack featuring my latest DOTU illustration! Download the attached zip file and extract it to your hard drive.

The following sizes are included:

Full Screen:

800x600, 1024x768, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1600x1200

Widescreen:

1280x720, 1280x800, 1366x768, 1440x900, 168...

Life in the Underground: North Sphere Drinks

In an upcoming scene, we'll finally get to visit Yackley's Booze and Drugs, which is the most popular bar in the underground. So naturally, the question is: What do they drink in the underground? Well, they drink a lot of the same things we drink, but the North Sphere, with its expertise in drugs and chemicals, is known for serving popular drinks...

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Here's the latest DOTU page, uploaded at a larger size. To see it even larger, right-click and select "view image," or your browser's equivalent.

DOTU: 8/8/2011 Voting Incentive

I'm sharing another old voting incentive. This was the first concept sketch I did of Pogo while working on Demon of the Underground. Pogo existed as a character before DOTU, but he had to be designed fresh for DOTU due to his age and the context of the story. Of course, he doesn't look quite like this yet, but there will be a point in the story ...

DOTU: 8/1/2011 Voting Incentive

Time to make good on a long-awaited promise! A lot of my readers only started reading Demon of the Underground recently, which means they might have missed out on a lot of the early bonus images I created as TopWebcomics voting incentives. I've used a wide variety of images as bonuses, from relevant photos of my ferrets to AU comic sketch pages. ...