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STICKS&SHΔRKS

I am Ver. I draw. I am working on an OGN. I do not take commissions.
Apr 5 '24
First out of four pages of a stamp rally card. A bearded wizard in a starry robe and dungarees looks surprised as a bunch of tiny adventurers swirl around his magical staff, seemingly in distress. The page is labeled "Great Wizard Gary's Stamp Rally." Underneath there is a stylised dialogue box with a label of "Great Wizard Gary" and simpliefied, cute version of the wizard. The text reads: "My adventurers have been split up between the Realm of Bonar Hall and the Kingdom of Dalhousie! Visit each one and collect their stamps to win a reward!"ALT
Second out of four pages of a stamp rally card. The page is labeled Realm of Bonar Hall. Underneath are four dialogue boxes with a little framed picture of a character and information on what their name is, where to find them and what kind of art they have, as well as a space designated for a stamp.  First character:  "Beastmaster Letty. Table 59. Strange and wonderful assortments of little guys. Check out Letty's GOBLIN ZINE collection!"  Second character: "Scholar of Rot, Faye. Table 56. Decay-core wares for your mouldering needs. Check out Faye's hand-printed "FLESH" T-shirts!  Third character: "Realmskipper Ver. Table 57. Windows into distant worlds. Check out Ver's newest comic, Extinction!"  Fourth character: "Grand Summoner Cat. Table 58. Invoking images of heroes known and niche. Check out Cat's Dungeon Meshi Recipe Cards!"ALT
Third out of four pages of a stamp rally card. The page is labeled Kingdom of Dalhousie. There are four dialogue boxes with a little framed picture of a character and information on what their name is, where to find them and what kind of art they have, as well as a space designated for a stamp.  First character:  "Quindrie Guildmaster Eve. Table 3. A trove of indie voices. Check out Eve's Inhibit 1 and Inhibit 2 books!"  Second character: "Wild Witch Atlanta. Table 4. The sublims and supernatural of old folk tales. Check out Atlanta's folklore-inspired Scroll Prints!"  Third character: "Sea Crest Bard, Ell. Table 5. To the tune of crashing waves and beating hooves. Check out Ell's latest comic, Catharsis!"  Fourth character: "Cleric of Animata, Ashling. Table 6. From the heart, onto the page. Check out Ashling's auto-bio comic Estrela D'oeste!"ALT
Fourth out of four pages of a stamp rally card. This page has a title "Where to find out adventurers" and a stylised map of the area that Deecon is taking place in, with a path leading from Bonar Hall to Dalhousie Building. The corners of the map are decorated with a dragon and an elephant stylised after medieval manuscript art.  Underneath the map there is additional information accompanied by some pictures.   TEXT ID: Hand in your completed stamp rally cards to Quindrie Press (Table 3) in Dalhousie Building to claim your prize!  Next to the text is a little winking face of the character of Quindrie Guildmaster Eve, as well as little drawings of rewards - prints, stickers and badges.ALT

Lo, adventurers! My friends and I will be at Dundee’s Deecon this Saturday, and our party was split between two buildings. If you’d like to win some cool prizes, complete Great Wizard Gary’s Stamp Rally and invoke the ancient stamp runes to unite our party together once more!

Mar 21 '24
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Egret Nurse

design from The Wildercourt (a graphic novel I am working on and hope to have finished in 2025)

Feb 18 '24

spaghetti-angel asked:

Heey~~

You're comics are amazing, i really love how you use perspective and pacing via like panel style~ I was not able to grab extinction when it was part of shortbox 0 ^ 0 are you selling it anywhere now?

Thanks~☆

Hello!
Thank you for the kind words!!

You can get digital and physical copies of Extinction via my Ko-Fi store. :}

Feb 10 '24

Anonymous asked:

do you have plans to add other works to your shop? like the tiger shirt?

sticksandsharks:

sticksandsharks:

Yes, I’d like to update the shop regularily with any new items I make this year!

I make the t-shirts as part of a local workshop initiative, and I only get to go in every so often, but if I make surplus tiger t-shirts, I will definitely list them. I’m going in again at the end of the month, so I hope to update the store with the tiger shirts and the concept art book reprints by the start of February. x)

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hey folks, we got some fresh off the (heat) press tiger t-shirts and concept art books restocked in the store!

there’s also some hourlies penny stickers

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penny approved(?)

Feb 10 '24

Anonymous asked:

do you have plans to add other works to your shop? like the tiger shirt?

sticksandsharks:

Yes, I’d like to update the shop regularily with any new items I make this year!

I make the t-shirts as part of a local workshop initiative, and I only get to go in every so often, but if I make surplus tiger t-shirts, I will definitely list them. I’m going in again at the end of the month, so I hope to update the store with the tiger shirts and the concept art book reprints by the start of February. x)

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hey folks, we got some fresh off the (heat) press tiger t-shirts and concept art books restocked in the store!

there’s also some hourlies penny stickers

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penny approved(?)

Feb 2 '24
A set of two comics depicting each hour of the artist's day.  "12 AM - Going to Bed" PANEL 1: Ver is elated to see their dog sleeping on the bed. "Penny is on the bed!", they think. A small annotation explains that Penny usually sleeps in her kennel.  PANEL 2: A top-down view of Ver contorting their body around the sleeping dog to fit into the bed with her. Ver still seems very happy to be doing this.  "8 AM - Morning walk with Penny" PANEL 1: Ver and Penny walk briskly in rainy weather. Ver thinks to themselves, "It's been raining a lot... I should check the dam."  PANEL 2: Smash cut to raging water, with a large, roaring sound effect overwhelming most of the panel. The small silhouette of Ver and Penny peering over a railing is visible in the back.  PANEL 3: Ver regards the water. "Yep", they think to themselves, "That's a lot of water."ALT
set of two comics depicting each hour of the artist's day.  "9 AM - Getting breakfast at my fav cafe"  PANEL 1: Ver and Penny are entering through a door, smiling. Ver says, "Hello! Good morning!".  PANEL 2: The focus is entirely on Penny the dog, who wags her tail excitedly at the uproar she causes. Several off-panel voices exclaim, "Hello, Penny!", "Ooh, it's Penny!", "Penny!".  PANEL 3: We see the staff of the cafe waving sheepishly at a motionless Ver. "Hello, Ver!" "Hi, Ver." "Sorry, hi!", the staff says, their expressions somewhat apologetic.  "10 AM - Meeting with Eve and Ell"  PANEL 1: A small panel showing Ver sadly telling Penny, "I'm sorry baby, you can't come..." as they are leaving through the door.  PANEL 2: A large sign labeled "Eve" points to a lean figure smiling with confidence. Eve is wearing a beanie, a swish of dark hair poking out from underneath. They have checkered overalls and a relaxed posture. A caption states, "Eve and I both arrived early to the meetup."  PANEL 3:  Ver and Eve regard Eve's phone. Eve says, "Ell's still on her way, let's send her a message."  PANEL 4: We see the Discord message that was sent to Ell, a large font asks, "where are you" and underneath is a photo of Ver and Eve pulling exxageratedly sad faces.ALT
A set of two comics depicting each hour of the artist's day.  "11 AM - Lunch at a cafe"  PANEL 1: A figure labeled as Ell is in this panel. Ell smile sweetly at us, raising one hand in greeting. Ell has long, dark hair and wears comfortable, stylish clothes.  PANEL 2: The three friends are depicted chatting excitedly. A caption says, "We talk about a big trip we're taking together in October."  PANEL 3: Ver falls silent, as they look down with uncertainty. Someone asks, "Everything OK, Ver?"  PANEL 4: Ver expresses confusion as they say, "My latte tastes... sour?"  PANEL 5: A caption follows up to explain, "Turns out they made my late with spoiled soy milk lol. It was remade and they didn't charge us for it."  "12 PM - Shopping in Stockbridge."  PANEL 1: A large panel depicting a street with shops on it. A caption states, "I run errands in Stockbridge, but I'm usually with the dog and can't enter most of the art or charity shops."  PANEL 2: A manic Ver runs with exxagerated, rubbery limbs, trying to hold onto a bunch of items they presumibly bought. This figure is labeled with an enormous "get things".ALT
A set of two comics depicting each hour of the artist's day.  "1 PM - Ell is dropping me off home"  PANEL 1: We see Ell's car from afar. Ell says, "I hope you guys don't mind some tunes.". A series of noises labeled as "untz, untz, beep, bleep" stream out of the car.  PANEL 2: In the car, Eve smiles knowingly "Oh. It's penis music." Behind them, Ver looks very confused.  PANEL 3: Ver swerves to look over at an annoyed Ell. "It's not penis music!" says Ell.  PANEL 4: Ell clutches onto the steering wheel with frustration. "It's acid techno and jungle.", she explains.  PANEL 5: Eve is unflappable and concludes "Yeah. Penis music.". A cartoonishly angry Ell retorts again "It's not penis music!!!".  "2 PM - Walk Penny"  PANEL 1: Small figures of Ver, Penny and a stranger are walking along a fence. A crow sits on the fence and caws loudly.  PANEL 2: The stranger smiles and speaks to Ver. A string of untinelligible words come out of his mouth, with only the word "crow" decipherable. Ver smiles and responds "Haha, yeah".  PANEL 3: A caption asks, "wtf did he say?" as Ver continues walking, confused.ALT
A set of two comics depicting each hour of the artist's day.  "3 PM to 5 PM"  This comic is just one large image of Ver sitting in the middle of a slightly discombobulated room, with boxes, binders and files strewn around them. A caption explains, "I spend the next few hours cleaning and organising storage in my office space."  "6 PM - Cooking dinner"  PANEL 1: A closeup of a knife cutting up some ingredients. A caption explains, "Making halloumi and veg pasta"  PANEL 2: Ver, who we see is holding the knife and doing the prep, holds up a slice of vegetable. An expectant Penny is in the foreground, perking up as Ver speaks to her. "Ok puppy, you want some courgette?"  PANEL 3: The courgette hits Penny in the head with a small "donk" sound effect.ALT
A set of two comics depicting each hour of the artist's day.  "7 PM"  PANEL 1: A hand places a bowl of pasta on the ground.  PANEL 2: As the bowl sits, steaming, Ver has settled down a distance away with a weary reverence.  PANEL 3: A darkened figure opens a door with a startling "DUNN!" noise. The steam from the bowl rises in front of them.  PANEL 4: An apologetic looking figure swaddled in a blanket holds up the pasta bowl, saying "Thanks for the food". Ver looks at them with concern. "I hope it helps!, they say. A caption above the two figures explains: "My flatmate felt ill today, so he mostly stayed in bed."  "8 PM"  PANEL 1: A caption states, "Working on the Wildercourt comic". The panel shows a closeup of a tablet stylus and a sketch of a character from the comic.  PANEL 2: A disgruntled Penny huffs with frustration, sitting and staring with annoyance. A caption states, "Every now and then, Penny checks in on me."  PANEL 3: A silent panel depicting Ver looking over at the frustrated Penny with mild confusion.ALT
A set of two comics depicting each hour of the artist's day.  "9 PM"  PANEL 1: An exxageratedly happy Ver counts rhythmically. "One foot, two foot, three fot, four!"  PANEL 2: Ver is singing to Penny, holding onto Penny's front paws and waving them around happily. Ver's song continues: "Penny, Penny, she needs more! Graft the Penny with more feet!"  PANEL 3: "She will be the dog elite!" concludes the song. In the panel, Penny looks annoyed and exasperated, as much as a dog can look that way.  PANEL 4: Ver regards the annoyed Penny in silence.  PANEL 5: Ver stares into the middle distance, reflecting: "I'm so glad my friends and family tolerate me."  "10 PM"  A series of panels illustrating the captions.  PANEL 1: Ver sits at their desk. "More comic work"  PANEL 2: Penny walks on some grass, harnessed and on a lead. "Last Penny walk of the day."  PANEL 3: Penny lays in a little kennel, snoozing soundly. "Penny goes to sleep."  PANEL 4: Ver's back is to us as they continue working at their desk. "I'm still up to do more work."ALT
A set of two comics depicting each hour of the artist's day.  "11 PM"  PANEL 1:  Another frustrated little Penny huffs up at us. A caption reads, "Penny got up to check on me."  PANEL 2: Ver turns from their desk and regards Penny with a slight smile.  PANEL 3: Ver beams down at Penny. "Let's go to sleep", they say.  "12 AM - Duolingo and sleep."  The entire strip is just one large panel, mostly shrouded in darkness, with Ver in bed and illuminated by the light of their phone. Penny rests on the bed much like she did in the very first comic of the hourlies.  A speechbubble depicts the text on the phone, the hiragana and romaji sctipts for "Mainichi ni sushi o tabemasu". The text is translated, "I eat sushi every day". A sleepy Ver comments on the exercise: "In this economy?". A little approving "dading!" noise follows as they submit their answer.ALT

hourly comics? hourly comics

(feat. @evegwood @elljwalker and @stoutstoatpress and my beloved perfect baby dog penny)

Jan 17 '24

Anonymous asked:

do you have plans to add other works to your shop? like the tiger shirt?

Yes, I’d like to update the shop regularily with any new items I make this year!

I make the t-shirts as part of a local workshop initiative, and I only get to go in every so often, but if I make surplus tiger t-shirts, I will definitely list them. I’m going in again at the end of the month, so I hope to update the store with the tiger shirts and the concept art book reprints by the start of February. x)

Jan 16 '24

sticksandsharks:

This post is a set of promotional graphics for Ver's online store, located at www.ko-fi.com/verface/shop.ALT
First image ID: Cover artwork for three different books available in the store.  Extinction: Hardcover printed version of my 2023 SBCF entry. Also available as a screen-reader accessible PDF!  Wolvendaughter: 2022 Eisner-nominated short story, originally published by Quindrie Press.  Morphology: Concept art book for the first three chapters of The Wildercourt.ALT
Second image ID: Artwork for three sticker sheets. One sheet depicts cute, stylized angelic beings, the second an array of cretaceous animals, and the third is a set of food-based Pokemon.ALT
Third image ID: A mock-up of a t-shirt with a dragon design. The inks for the design are a flame-like gradient of yellows, oranges and reds. There is also a close-up photo of the dragon design shown in greater detail. Accompanying text highlights that the t-shirts are hand-printed.ALT

my online store is now open! we got books, we got stickers, we got prints, and also a very limited number of hand-printed t-shirts.

thank you so much to everyone who has ordered from the store!! I was not expecting to get so much interest!! I’ve ran out of the t-shirts and concept art books, and I’ve topped up on copies of Extinction and Wolvendaughter. I’m sending out orders starting tomorrow, but I’m just one person packing and arranging shipping, so allow me some time to get through all of the orders. x)

Jan 16 '24

Anonymous asked:

Will you have more of the physical comics available in the future? Ko-fi wouldn’t let me pay and by the time it was fixed the comics were all sold out.

OH!

I genuinely wasn’t expecting them to sell out!! I’ve added the reminder of my Extinction and Wolvendaughter stock and they are now available for purchase; I ran out of Morphologies though, and will need to run a reprint.

Jan 15 '24
This post is a set of promotional graphics for Ver's online store, located at www.ko-fi.com/verface/shop.ALT
First image ID: Cover artwork for three different books available in the store.  Extinction: Hardcover printed version of my 2023 SBCF entry. Also available as a screen-reader accessible PDF!  Wolvendaughter: 2022 Eisner-nominated short story, originally published by Quindrie Press.  Morphology: Concept art book for the first three chapters of The Wildercourt.ALT
Second image ID: Artwork for three sticker sheets. One sheet depicts cute, stylized angelic beings, the second an array of cretaceous animals, and the third is a set of food-based Pokemon.ALT
Third image ID: A mock-up of a t-shirt with a dragon design. The inks for the design are a flame-like gradient of yellows, oranges and reds. There is also a close-up photo of the dragon design shown in greater detail. Accompanying text highlights that the t-shirts are hand-printed.ALT

my online store is now open! we got books, we got stickers, we got prints, and also a very limited number of hand-printed t-shirts.