Wired Medusa by Colleen Doran pen and ink with digital color. On 11"x14" paper, hand drawn in pen and ink colored with brilliant digital tones, this original work is offered for the first time here, never before published. By Colleen Doran

Wired Medusa

Art for sites and locations for Emergents.

Locations#5

The inks from the cover of #0 of The Nine. This is the first appearance of the Crimeblotter in issue #0 of The Nine.

The Nine #0 Cover inks

First Minted Road to Launch Promo Card - this will unlock the first minted copy of Maser when it is released in game.

Maser TCG Card

First Minted Road to Launch Promo Card - this will unlock the first minted copy of The Accelerant when it is released in game.

The Accelerant

First Minted Road to Launch Promo Card - this will unlock the first minted copy of Billy Stopless when it is released in game.

Faction: Non-Stop
First Appearance: Emergents Presents #1
Cost: 6 Generic, 3 Non-Stop
Attack: 4
Health: 1
Abilities:
- Flurry 1
- Billy Stopless does combat damage to rival even if it is engaged.
- When Billy Stopless is destroyed, return it to your hand. 
      
"In his younger years Billy Stopless was a Soviet test pilot and Cosmonaut. His powers emerged when he broke the sound barrier, unlocking the ability to transport himself through portals in times and space. Today, Billy oversees the education of the Non-Stop students at the Phaeton Project and trains them to use their powers of speed, teleportation, and temporal manipulation to outmaneuver their enemies."
- Corey Burkhart, Senior Game Designer, InterPop

Billy Stopless TCG Card

Meet Culverton's #1 internet influencer in #ZOEMG #1! Learn how Zoe discovered her emoji powers and the weight they hold. Will she choose to join her fellow heroes, or will she make her own way? Featuring NYT bestselling writer Danielle Paige, artist PJ Kaiowá, colorist Yenny Laud, and letterer Sal Cipriano.

#ZoeMG (Issue #1 First Minted)

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The Initiative was conceived as a book cover. It was done digitally using Photoshop and Painter. These types of pieces are usually done at 300 DPI at 12x17.5 inches in size.

Book covers are without a doubt the truest expression of who I am as an artist. The process of creating them is quite different from the process of doing concept painting for a film which are conceived in relationship with certain technical aspects, cost or functionality and are less about your artistic style. A book cover allows a great deal of artistic freedom and IS about your style as an artist. It is about creating one compelling image that captures a story with all its mood, drama and scope. To put it in a film context, it would be about creating the first image a producer or director would want to have to sell their film idea to the studio. It needs to be the wow!

I always try to surprise myself when doing book covers. My sketches are very loose to allow me to explore while painting. It gives me an opportunity to be more adventurous than in any of the other entertainment fields. I love layering with light and color in a painting to create dynamic emotional pieces. Over the years book covers have allowed me to grow and explore different techniques and ultimately find a unique artistic voice.

The Initiative

Pat morrisey-Lewis' first NFT minting of this work is part of the foundation of storytelling and game mechanics for the Verses NFT TCG.

The holder of this NFT will receive airdrops of new cards made by the Verses team that they derive from this work.

The holder of this NFT will be able to use it as a card in any Verses game that has art derived from it.
 
"While we assume dragon's hoards are usually made up of gold and shiny objects, I thought of all the other things they might collect and as it was a book club the commission was for, I thought to add a hoard of books. Since the dragon can't read, it found a captive to read to it. The captive's beard grows longer and longer as the years go by." - Pat morrisey-Lewis

Underground Scholars

Drew Tucker has given this painting exclusively to the Verses team to mint as an NFT for the first time. This minting marks the passage of this image from the physical world into the Verses. This edition is the only Foundation Edition of 'Timtim and the Trike King' that will ever be made.

As the holder of this NFT, you will receive free airdrops of future cards based on this art, including a Signature Edition. 

You can play with this as a full art card in Verses games.

Artist Statement:
One of my students gifted me a welded metallic dinosaur when I was a professor at John A. Logan College in Carterville, Illinois. I had a picture of a kid on a trike and I thought I could create a composition of the two that would be nice. The poem that goes with the image is as follows:
 
Summer morning
Cotton candy feelings
Peddling dreams
A boy and his dog.

Timtim and the Trike King

Road to Launch Promo Card - this will unlock the first minted copy of Afterimage when it is released in game.

Faction: Non-Stop
First Appearance: #ZoeMG #1
Cost: 1 Generic, 1 Non-Stop
Attack: 1
Health: 1
Abilities:
- Evasion
- When you wildcard Afterimage, forge an Afterimage without this power and put it in your hand.

"Afterimage is an African American Trans male teen with a keen fashion sense. He's a speedster who teleports very short distances, which leaves a series of afterimages in his wake that can disorient an opponent. Afterimage is exceptionally protective of his friends, charging into danger to keep them safe."

Afterimage TCG Card

Ken Meyer Jr. has given this acrylic ink painting to the Verses team to exclusively mint as an NFT for the first time. This minting marks the passage of this image from the physical world into the Verses. This edition is the only Foundation Edition of Monarch that will ever be made.

As the holder of this NFT, you will receive free airdrops of future cards based on this art, including a Signature Edition. 

You can play with this as a full art card in Verses games.

Artist Statement:

This was a painting for a Tarot card set I contributed to. I used a buddy as my reference model for the King, and then found what I needed for the butterflies and other embellishments. I designed the head armor and as usual, I paid special attention to lighting and the effects it has visually and emotionally.

Monarch

Brian Snoddy has given this painting to the Verses team to exclusively mint as an NFT for the first time. This minting marks the passage of this image from the physical world into the Verses. This edition is the only Foundation Edition of Ex Memoriam that will ever be made.

As the holder of this NFT, you will receive free airdrops of future cards based on this art, including a Signature Edition.

You can play with this as a full art card in Verses games.

Artist statement:

This was painted for the 20th anniversary of MAGIC THE GATHERING. In 2014, a bunch of us old school MAGIC artists got together and we all redid an old card. This was my redo of the card Recall. This painting was printed in the 20th anniversary book called THE GATHERING.

Ex Memoriam

Anson Maddocks has given this painting to the Verses team to exclusively mint as an NFT for the first time. This minting marks the passage of this image from the physical world into the Verses. This edition is the only Foundation Edition of Conservation of Minotaur that will ever be made.

As the holder of this NFT, you will receive free airdrops of future cards based on this art, including a Signature Edition. 

You can play with this as a full art card in Verses games.

Artist Statement:

This piece was initially commissioned by a private collector with an interest in a fusion concept involving two previously published illustrations. I decided to depict a scene as derelict and uncomfortable as those two originals had been, only this time replacing what were human skeletal figures with those of Minotaurs in various states of decay.

My depiction of Minotaurs has always included extensive tribal inkings and ritual scarification. Without their intact flesh to consider, I chose to give those characteristic embellishments a supernatural presence in the air immediately surrounding each of them or hovering where they were meant to be when the creature had flesh to hold them.

This final digital montage incorporates selected elements which were photographed throughout the many stages, now hidden, that preceded the finished piece.

Conservation of Minotaur

Brenda Massocks has given this mixed-media sculpture to the Verses team to exclusively mint as an NFT for the first time. This minting marks the passage of this image from the physical world into the Verses. This edition is the only Foundation Edition of m3ta1-11 that will ever be made.

As the holder of this NFT, you will receive free airdrops of future cards based on this art, including a Signature Edition. 

You can play with this as a full art card in Verses games.

Artist Statement:

m3ta1-11 was a breakthrough piece for me, as it was the first time I diverged from strictly found objects and used additive sculpting to incorporate an element which was important enough to the concept to bring forth from my imagination (the human skull with horns).

While working on this piece I was focusing on how to balance that which makes us human (empathy & compassion) against the need to trudge forward despite the ebbing and flowing of whatever is occurring within us as emotional beings. Emotional connections, while generally considered a good thing, when excessively hyper-focused on can become oppressive. This one reminds me of the need for the pendulum to swing the opposite direction, (those parts of us which function outside of or despite our fundamental connections or emotional wounds), before finding it’s center. I felt with this piece I had achieved an image which may be provocative to the viewer while still maintaining some ambiguity and room for others to fill it with their own stories.

Regardless of medium, the art that I love most draws me in with alluring appeal while simultaneously doing something to repel me. It is confusing and contradictory. I’m intrigued by dichotomies which mirror those found in people and our shared human condition. These things are infinitely complex and at the same time base and primal; depending on your perspective and how you need to see things they can be both, or one or neither. That is what this piece is about to me.

m3ta1-11

Cornelius Brudi has given this painting to the Verses team to exclusively mint as an NFT for the first time. This minting marks the passage of this image from the physical world into the Verses. This edition is the only Foundation Edition of Shipwrecked that will ever be made.

Ownership Benefits:

As the holder of this NFT, you will receive free airdrops of future cards based on this art, including a Signature Edition. 

You can play with this as a full art card in Verses games.

Artist Statement: 

As a child, I was heavily influenced by two historical figures. One was the author Daniel Dafoe, whose literature I loved. The other was Alexander von Humboldt, a German naturalist and explorer of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, who traveled extensively in South America.

The idea of being cast away on a remote island always fascinated me. Would I want to find my way back to "civilization", or decide to stay where I am? I think I always leaned towards the later.

A wise person once told me "there is nothing wrong with being lost, it just means you're searching for something".

This piece is part of a three dimensional illustrated story for children.

Shipwrecked

To commemorate Kaitlyn Page giving this painting to the Verses team to exclusively mint as NFTs, we are minting 100 with her signature. Each of these is a reminder of the connection between collector, art, and artist. These 100 editions are the only Signature Editions of Mystic that will ever be made.

Ownership Benefits:

As the holder of this NFT, you will receive free airdrops of future cards based on the Foundation Edition this piece originates from.

You can play with this as a signed full art card in Verses games. 

Artist Statement:
 
Most of my life has been spent living with or around many cats. I've always had a fascination with their intellect, personalities, and their ability to offer love and healing to those they live with. Cats are “mystical” in a sense; I see them as being the gatekeepers to a supernatural world. This piece is one of two; each cat holds a small piece to opening a new world. One holds the keys, the other holds the locks. They have the heart of the forest within them – symbolizing their wild nature. It is my intention to leave it to the viewer to interpret where each world leads or what is beyond the keys and locks.

Mystic

The Brand, original watercolor painting with digital enhancement by Colleen Doran. Previously unpublished work, hand painted watercolor by Colleen Doran with digital touch ups, a dystopian vision.

The Brand

Original hand drawn work with final digital painting, used as the cover art for Image Comics' creator owned THE CLOCK techno-thriller series by Matt Hawkins and Colleen Doran.

The Clock

Pen and ink with digital color by Colleen Doran, cover art for the techno-thriller series THE CLOCK by Matt Hawkins and Colleen Doran, creator comic from Image Comics

By Heart

Pen and ink with digital color by Colleen Doran, this piece was originally intended - but not used - as cover art for Image Comics' THE CLOCK series. Creator owned by Matt Hawkins and Colleen Doran.

Angel of Death

Originally intended - but not used - as cover art for Image Comics' techno-thriller series THE CLOCK, this was drawn by hand in pen and ink and finish with digital color by Colleen Doran. THE CLOCK, created and owned by Matt Hawkins and Colleen Doran.

Body Count

Variant cover for The Nine #0, the first comic in the Emergents Universe.

The Nine #0 Cover

Locations#1

Locations#2

Locations#3

Locations#4

Cover for the Nine #0 drawn, inked and colored by Steve Ellis. This cover represents the journey Crimeblotter takes from the persona of street-level vigilante to time-traveling investigator.

Original ink drawing from page one of the Nine #0. These inks are the first appearance of The Upstarts in the Emergents comics from the aftermath of their final battle together.

The Nine #0 page 1 inks

This is the first appearance of the TimeBlotter in The Emergents. This is the ink art from page 16 of The Nine #0 featuring the first appearance of the Timeblotter.

The Nine #0 page 16 Inks

Inks from page 8 of The Nine #0 featuring Crimeblotter and Professor Helios. This is page 8 from The Nine#0 wherein Crimeblotter confronts Professor Helios about the death of Phaeton the catalyst for the events of The Nine.

The Confrontation

Interpop Blockparty 2021 Promo Card - this will unlock your Professor Helios copy when it is released in game.

Professor Helios TCG Card

Interpop Blockparty 2021 Promo Card - this will unlock your Phaeton copy when it is released in game.

Phaeton TCG Card

Interpop Blockparty 2021 Promo Card - this will unlock your Shimmertorm copy when it is released in game.

Shimmerstorm TCG Card

Interpop Blockparty 2021 Promo Card - this will unlock your #ZoeMG copy when it is released in game.

#ZoeMG TCG Card

Interpop Blockparty 2021 Promo Card - this will unlock your Time Blotter copy when it is released in game.

Time Blotter TCG Card

Road to Launch Promo Card - this will unlock your Maser copy when it is released in game.

Road to Launch Promo Card - this will unlock your copy of The Accelerant when it is released in game.

Road to Launch Promo Card - this will unlock your copy of Billy Stopless when it is released in game.

Faction: Non-Stop
First Appearance: Emergents Presents #1
Cost: 6 Generic, 3 Non-Stop
Attack: 4
Health: 1
Abilities:
- Flurry 1
- Billy Stopless does combat damage to rival even if it is engaged.
- When Billy Stopless is destroyed, return it to your hand. 
      
"In his younger years Billy Stopless was a Soviet test pilot and Cosmonaut. His powers emerged when he broke the sound barrier, unlocking the ability to transport himself through portals in times and space. Today, Billy oversees the education of the Non-Stop students at the Phaeton Project and trains them to use their powers of speed, teleportation, and temporal manipulation to outmaneuver their enemies."
- Corey Burkhart, Senior Game Designer, InterPop

The bearer of this NFT is invited to a private channel on Verses Discord server https://discord.gg/verses, to our MultiPass holder beta tests for our games, to special tournaments that will be held for MultiPass holders, and will be eligible for other MultiPass holder spaces, events, and promotions.

MultiPass

Pat morrisey-Lewis' Signature Editions celebrates her first NFT minting of this work. It is part of the foundation of storytelling and game mechanics for the Verses NFT TCG.

The holder of this NFT will receive airdrops of new cards made by the Verses team that they derive from this work.

The holder of this NFT will be able to use it as a card in any Verses game that has art derived from it.
 
"While we assume dragon's hoards are usually made up of gold and shiny objects, I thought of all the other things they might collect and as it was a book club the commission was for, I thought to add a hoard of books. Since the dragon can't read, it found a captive to read to it. The captive's beard grows longer and longer as the years go by." - Pat morrisey-Lewis

To commemorate Drew Tucker giving this painting exclusively to the Verses team to mint as NFTs, we are minting 100 with his signature. Each of these is a reminder of the connection between collector, art, and artist. These 100 editions are the only Signature Editions of Timtim and the Trike King that will ever be made.

As the holder of this NFT, you will receive free airdrops of future cards based on the Foundation Edition this art is based on. 

You can play with this as a signed full art card in Verses games. 

Artist Statement:
One of my students gifted me a welded metallic dinosaur when I was a professor at John A. Logan College in Carterville, Illinois. I had a picture of a kid on a trike and I thought I could create a composition of the two that would be nice. The poem that goes with the image is as follows:

Summer morning
Cotton candy feelings
Peddling dreams
A boy and his dog.

Road to Launch Promo Card - this will unlock your copy of Afterimage when it is released in game.

Faction: Non-Stop
First Appearance: #ZoeMG #1
Cost: 1 Generic, 1 Non-Stop
Attack: 1
Health: 1
Abilities:
- Evasion
- When you wildcard Afterimage, forge an Afterimage without this power and put it in your hand.

"Afterimage is an African American Trans male teen with a keen fashion sense. He's a speedster who teleports very short distances, which leaves a series of afterimages in his wake that can disorient an opponent. Afterimage is exceptionally protective of his friends, charging into danger to keep them safe."

To commemorate Ken Meyer Jr. giving this acrylic painting to the Verses team to exclusively mint as NFTs, we are minting 100 with his signature. Each of these is a reminder of the connection between collector, art, and artist. These 100 editions are the only Signature Editions of Monarch that will ever be made.

As the holder of this NFT, you will receive free airdrops of future cards based on this art, including a Signature Edition. 

You can play with this as a full art card in Verses games.

Artist Statement:

This was a painting for a Tarot card set I contributed to. I used a buddy as my reference model for the King, and then found what I needed for the butterflies and other embellishments. I designed the head armor and as usual, I paid special attention to lighting and the effects it has visually and emotionally.

To commemorate Brian Snoddy giving this painting to the Verses team to exclusively mint as NFTs, we are minting 100 with his signature. Each of these is a reminder of the connection between collector, art, and artist. These 100 editions are the only Signature Editions of Ex Memoriam that will ever be made.

As the holder of this NFT, you will receive free airdrops of future cards based on the Foundation Edition this piece originates from.

You can play with this as a signed full art card in Verses games. 

Artist Statement:

This was painted for the 20th anniversary of MAGIC THE GATHERING. In 2014, a bunch of us old school MAGIC artists got together and we all redid an old card. This was my redo of the card Recall. This painting was printed in the 20th anniversary book called THE GATHERING.

To commemorate Anson Maddocks giving this painting to the Verses team to exclusively mint as NFTs, we are minting 100 with his signature. Each of these is a reminder of the connection between collector, art, and artist. These 100 editions are the only Signature Editions of Conservation of Minotaur that will ever be made.

As the holder of this NFT, you will receive free airdrops of future cards based on the Foundation Edition this piece originates from.

You can play with this as a signed full art card in Verses games. 

Artist Statement:

This piece was initially commissioned by a private collector with an interest in a fusion concept involving two previously published illustrations. I decided to depict a scene as derelict and uncomfortable as those two originals had been, only this time replacing what were human skeletal figures with those of Minotaurs in various states of decay.

My depiction of Minotaurs has always included extensive tribal inkings and ritual scarification. Without their intact flesh to consider, I chose to give those characteristic embellishments a supernatural presence in the air immediately surrounding each of them or hovering where they were meant to be when the creature had flesh to hold them.

This final digital montage incorporates selected elements which were photographed throughout the many stages, now hidden, that preceded the finished piece.

To commemorate Brenda Maddocks giving this mixed-media sculpture to the Verses team to exclusively mint as NFTs, we are minting 100 with her signature. Each of these is a reminder of the connection between collector, art, and artist. These 100 editions are the only Signature Editions of that m3ta1-11 will ever be made.

As the holder of this NFT, you will receive free airdrops of future cards based on the Foundation Edition this piece originates from.

You can play with this as a signed full art card in Verses games. 

Artist Statement:

m3ta1-11 was a break through piece for me, as it was the first time I diverged from strictly found objects and used additive sculpting to incorporate an element which was important enough to the concept to bring forth from my imagination (the human skull with horns).

While working on this piece I was focusing on how to balance that which makes us human (empathy & compassion) against the need to trudge forward despite the ebbing and flowing of whatever is occurring within us as emotional beings. Emotional connections, while generally considered a good thing, when excessively hyper-focused on can become oppressive. This one reminds me of the need for the pendulum to swing the opposite direction, (those parts of us which function outside of or despite our fundamental connections or emotional wounds), before finding it’s center. I felt with this piece I had achieved an image which may be provocative to the viewer while still maintaining some ambiguity and room for others to fill it with their own stories.

Regardless of medium, the art that I love most draws me in with alluring appeal while simultaneously doing something to repel me. It is confusing and contradictory. I’m intrigued by dichotomies which mirror those found in people and our shared human condition. These things are infinitely complex and at the same time base and primal; depending on your perspective and how you need to see things they can be both, or one or neither. That is what this piece is about to me.

To commemorate Cornelius Brudi giving this painting to the Verses team to exclusively mint as NFTs, we are minting 100 with his signature. Each of these is a reminder of the connection between collector, art, and artist. These 100 editions are the only Signature Editions of Shipwrecked that will ever be made.

Ownership Benefits: 

As the holder of this NFT, you will receive free airdrops of future cards based on the Foundation Edition this piece originates from.

You can play with this as a signed full art card in Verses games. 

Artist Statement: 

As a child, I was heavily influenced by two historical figures. One was the author Daniel Dafoe, whose literature I loved. The other was Alexander von Humboldt, a German naturalist and explorer of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, who traveled extensively in South America.

The idea of being cast away on a remote island always fascinated me. Would I want to find my way back to "civilization", or decide to stay where I am? I think I always leaned towards the later.

A wise person once told me "there is nothing wrong with being lost, it just means you're searching for something".

This piece is part of a three dimensional illustrated story for children.

Kaitlyn Page has given this painting to the Verses team to exclusively mint as an NFT for the first time. This minting marks the passage of this image from the physical world into the Verses. This edition is the only Foundation Edition of Mystic that will ever be made.

Ownership Benefits:

As the holder of this NFT, you will receive free airdrops of future cards based on this art, including a Signature Edition. 

You can play with this as a full art card in Verses games.

Artist Statement:

Most of my life has been spent living with or around many cats. I've always had a fascination with their intellect, personalities, and their ability to offer love and healing to those they live with. Cats are “mystical” in a sense; I see them as being the gatekeepers to a supernatural world. This piece is one of two; each cat holds a small piece to opening a new world. One holds the keys, the other holds the locks. They have the heart of the forest within them – symbolizing their wild nature. It is my intention to leave it to the viewer to interpret where each world leads or what is beyond the keys and locks.

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