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Mystic Punks / drummer / bass / synths / cowboy / design / games / illustration
Congrats @calebzane.bsky.social on the big Ennies win for Triangle Agency! Best Rules! Best Writing! Best Game! Athens got something to say!
02.08.2025 13:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They won't let anyone check out those fanzines, but you can read most (if not all) issues of Paperback Inferno here:
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This is my jam.
22.07.2025 15:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Too sweet. My wallet is blaming you for this, Ginny!
30.05.2025 18:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Mystic Punks got to play with the big kids at MomoCon this year thanks to @ginnyloveday.com. Saw many friends old and new. Spoke on fun panels and even managed to convince some great players to try out MP. Biggest takeaway: I might be getting into Warhammer 40k despite avoiding it for years.
26.05.2025 18:15 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Be seeing you!
21.05.2025 20:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Been listening to the new Organically Programmed. Get it on Bandcamp or listen on your favorite streaming service. Lovers of 70s space disco, library jazz, Gary Wilson, Burt Bacharach, and the Love Boat. I’m bias but it’s solid and catchy. cloudrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/organi...
21.05.2025 20:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s in there, this counts
18.05.2025 20:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Blows my mind that it was omitted. Must have been a misprint!
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Waiting for tonight’s MP game and thumbing through @prismaticwasteland.com new book, Prismatic Wisdom- a beautiful book of resources for the discerning game runner. It had me at the die-cut cover tbh. Get it from @gamesomnivorous.bsky.social
15.05.2025 22:22 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
D&D Alternatives: A world of TTRPGS Thursday May 22nd 7-8 MomoCon
Play Mystic Punks at MomoCon 2025
We are running a bunch of Mystic Punks at MomoCon 2025! I will be on a bunch of panels this year too. Thanks to the rad @ginnyloveday.com for putting together a spectacular gaming lineup for the con.
13.05.2025 18:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Can we just admit that music streaming is to musicians as Generative AI is to artists? Another way for technocrats and corporations to exploit and control creativity.
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CRIT Awards Nominations are going on now.
Mystic Punks for best TTRPG
Or Indie TTRPG
Please consider any of our AP/Podcast series as well!
Thank you!
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@smoggo.bsky.social “Thanks for the Gary Con game! Highlight of the con!” -Bryan Setzer
24.03.2025 22:39 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0It’s easy when you got top shelf players itching to let loose!
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INTRODUCTION Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling. You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse. You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life. TIPS 1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way
possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything. 2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought. 3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt. 4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.
4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you. 5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook. 6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes.
7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case. 8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes. 9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out. 10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.
Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find.
They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.
Tonight at 7pm
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WE ARE LIVE! I’m excited to announce that our first stretch goal is the inclusion of Dungeon Synth superstar Hole Dweller on the soundtrack!
Three images: 1) A black and white picture of an axe wielding warrior battling a demon from the Heavy Metal Monster Manual 2) A dayglo red and blue album cover from Uriah Heep showing two magicians having a spell duel 3) Roger Dean artwork for the Relayer album by Yes showing a wintry scene with white horse mounted soldiers
Heavy Metal Monster Manual & Stories Behind Prog Rock Album Covers Plus Mystic Punks: Dead Hills Mall Adventure Zine & Cassette Synth Soundtrack @greedygorgonpress.bsky.social @smoggo.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/critical...
14.02.2025 14:24 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Perforated guitar loops. Sidrax changes the state of Cocoquantus
13.02.2025 12:59 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The super talented Tiger Wizard from @epiclevels.bsky.social made a rad battle helmet for the Sewer Rats - all hot glue, rats and nat ones! #tigerwizard #sewerratsrpg #rpg #ttrpg
13.02.2025 14:57 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
One week until we launch this project for #zinequest. A new Zine/Cassette project from @mysticpunks and @fantasy_audio_magazine. Weird music fans rejoice, @organicallyprogrammed will be creating music specifically to match the Scanners vibes of the adventure.
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And make sure to follow the Backerkit launch page to be notified when LIMINAL HORROR: DELUXE EDITION goes live!
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Kick out the germs, mfckers!
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