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A Sketch+Secret Gallery Tier Slot is Open! [read before pledging]

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 they're all wearing their underwear of choice?)***Things to know before pledging ...

Devoted - Merritt's Story 2 - Chapter 6

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 updated manually later on, and sometimes I forget.Since DOTU pages are starting up again (for patrons only) in July, and the next page requires a bit more visual development work, there will probably be only one new ...

Character Sheet - Merritt (+future DOTU plans)

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 compensate for ad revenue, so I probably won't do 3x pages anymor...

Character Sheet/Sketches - Belmont

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 first I wanted to get used to at least drawin...

Pogo's May 2018 GUEST Letters Have Been Sent!

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 letter, so this time we have Jordana! She's got messy writing, haha....

Devoted - Merritt's Story 2 - Chapter 5

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 PDF.REMINDER: If the table of contents doesn't list th...

May 2018 Sketch Tier Sketches 17-19

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 down18. Belmont in bed19. 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 ^_^)

May 2018 Sketch Tier Sketches 13-16

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 design14. 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 beard16. Jordana

May 2018 Sketch Tier Sketches 7-12

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 poisons8. Cheesy-stock-photo-style Merritt loves water9. Bardia10. Leyendecker-inspired Mercury11. Troy12. Bad Attitude Pogo

May 2018 Sketch Tier Sketches 1-6

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 weekend. I'll be doing freelance all weekend, so Pogo's ...

Sketches and Stuff

A few things!May RewardsHealth-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 waiting, guys!May Sketch Tier SketchesAs usual, I plan to post progress photos of t...

Secret Gallery WIP

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. :)

Devoted - Merritt's Story 2 - Chapter 4

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]--------Book 2, Chapter 4I’m waiting in the fifth floor lounge. Come grab me when you’re ready.Tuesday’s board meeting was scheduled for one in the afternoon, so Merritt and Belmont planned to take the second half of Belmont’s hour-long lunch break to go over their material...

May Rewards

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 usual speed, so I'm expecting these to wrap up within the first week of June. Pogo's letters will go out along with th...

Chapter 4, Page 29 + Hiatus Info

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 wants to know. It's pretty long, so don't worry about reading it unless you really want to. (The first two paragraphs are just about ads so you can probably skip the...

Hiatus

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 now that milestone has been un-met, and I'm just worn out by this...

Chapter 4, Page 28 is up!

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/18661676And you can see it here on the main site:http://www.demonoftheunderground.com/comic/p284/

New Reward Tier + Milestone Goal + 300 Patrons!

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. XDSo 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 companies handle user data. Now, after their laws...

Custom Card Portrait for Linmayu!

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! :D

Chapter 4, Page 28

[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.

Devoted - Merritt's Story 2 - Chapter 3

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 stuff.[Table of Contents]--------Book 2, Chapter 3The caviar was… w...

Devoted - Merritt's Story 2 - Chapter 2

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 Friday. So that's been fixed, and I recommend downloading the corr...

Lil Preview

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!

(Correction) Ch.04p.27 is up on the main site!

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

Pogo's April 2018 Letters Have Been Sent!

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 is packed with freelance and additional DOTU ...

Chapter 4, Page 27

[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 time most pages take. ^_^;Reminder that tomorrow is an off day for public comic updates, so this one won't go up until 4/30. But by 4/30, I should have an early a...

Chapter 4, Page 26 (2 of 2)

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!

Chapter 4, Page 25 (1 of 2, this one's just blank)

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!

Gray Card Portrait WIP + News/Updates (nothing scary ^_^)

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 possibly be jumping on that fast, which could cut ...

Devoted - Merritt's Story 2 - Chapter 1

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 Contents]--------Book 2, Chapter 1I’m throwing you a party to celebrate your promotion. Yackley’s VIP room, Friday night, 8pm. Who do you want me to invite? Archer? ...