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Gontijo

@gontijo.bsky.social

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Brazilian designer • Follower of Jesus • Tabletop RPG Author • Artist in Progress

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Gontijo @gontijo.bsky.social · Jan 29

I'm Gontijo. A Brazilian graphic designer and author mad for Tabletop RPGs working in the industry since 2019. Worked on more than 60 projects as a layout designer, art director and/or book cover designer.

My email? [email protected]

Nice to meet you.

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Gontijo @gontijo.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, there's a visual silence on Chris stuff that I love.

Gontijo @gontijo.bsky.social · 1d

Leonard J. Koscianski is another great one

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Gontijo @gontijo.bsky.social · 1d

This is Ronald Francis btw.

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Gontijo @gontijo.bsky.social · 1d

I want to see art with this exact energy on RPGs and analog games. These screaming silences, these nightmarish tensions.

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Gontijo @gontijo.bsky.social · 1d

Great ambient dungeon synth album

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Gontijo @gontijo.bsky.social · 1d

I suck so bad at Go.

Gontijo @gontijo.bsky.social · 2d

The bidding system is advanced to the point of a completely unique language. I feel like a Bene Gesserit running plans within plans within plans (when I manage to get it right, I mean).

a large group of people are standing in a circle in front of a mountain

ALT: a large group of people are standing in a circle in front of a mountain

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Gontijo @gontijo.bsky.social · 2d

After playing Bridge for some days in a row I'll never again say TTRPGs has a high learning curve for beginners. This card game never stops to get more and more complex. To the point I think it would be easier to find 3 other adults to play a completely new rpg they have no interest in.

a man in a purple jacket is holding a card and saying `` no way ! my mind must be playing tricks on me ''

ALT: a man in a purple jacket is holding a card and saying `` no way ! my mind must be playing tricks on me ''

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Gontijo @gontijo.bsky.social · 3d

I'm learning to play Bridge. It's a great card game with a somewhat complicated bidding and pointing system. However It's most difficult rule is to find three other friends to play it with you tho.

Playing Cards Praetorian GIF

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Gontijo @gontijo.bsky.social · 5d

📝 "never draw horses"

Gontijo @gontijo.bsky.social · 5d

After two months drawing a lot I came to some perceptions:

Objects are easier than nature elements. Nature elements are easier than animals. Animals are easier than human bodies. Human bodies are easier than human faces.

Unfortunately I'm studying human faces rn.

a drawing of a skull with a sad expression on it

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Gontijo @gontijo.bsky.social · 5d

Rad

failnaut @failnaut.bsky.social · 5d

alright let's go

A placed tattoo stencil showing a top down dungeon map.

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Gontijo @gontijo.bsky.social · 5d

Aesthetics is a rollercoaster of emotions

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 5d

Yoshitaka Amano's art for the Real Time Strategy RPG First Queen 1988.

His very very Frank Frazetta Conan feeling work!

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Gontijo @gontijo.bsky.social · 6d

Just saw a video where a guy shows how black metal without distortion is just nordic surf rock.

It made so much sense

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Gontijo @gontijo.bsky.social · 6d

That also means high level male characters are most probably in constant suffering of being extremely turned on, sexually speaking.

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 7d

Typographic apparitions 👻

Spotted in a 1498 Cologne missal: a case of off-set printing, where ink from the forme (or from another printed page?) accidentally transferred onto these printed page.

#bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

Detail of a page with musical staf printed, added music by hand, and off-set printing of other type in the margins

Detail of a page with liturgical text printed, and off-set printing of other type in the margins

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 8d

In 2009, NATO put an archive of internal security posters online. They’re great!

www.nato.int

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 9d

Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916), “Interior of Courtyard, Strandgade 30” (1899), oil on canvas, 47 x 66 cm.

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Alariko @alariko.bsky.social · Sep 10

Fountain 2

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Gontijo @gontijo.bsky.social · 12d

It's hard to resist beautifully illustrated miniature cards 😤😩🤌

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Gontijo @gontijo.bsky.social · 12d

I mean...

Gontijo @gontijo.bsky.social · 12d

My main "problem" is that beside RPGs I also adore abstract and traditional board/card games. I have a capital-F-fun time playing royal game of Ur, backgammon, dice games and hanafuda.

a group of people are playing a game of mahjong with dice .

ALT: a group of people are playing a game of mahjong with dice .

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Gontijo @gontijo.bsky.social · 12d

love this movie

Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 12d

My poster for City of the Dead (1960) for @hireillo.com’s Video Shop project. Ink and pencil. More info here - www.hireillo.com/announcement...

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Gontijo @gontijo.bsky.social · 12d

Thematic Illustrated calendars are among the MANY products I wish we had more on the TTRPG scene.

Just imagine the pitches below:

1. Each month a [system of your choice] hack
2. Mausritter scenes
3. Landscapes of a setting
4. Monsters in their habitat
5. Fictional Botanics
6. In world fashion

Graeme Neil Reid @graemeneilreid.bsky.social · 12d

Forgot to 'big up' my Star Wars calendar pic for October, which you can go and download and print out for your own use at my Patreon website. It's free, you need to be a member (yawn) but that is free too.
www.patreon.com/posts/2025-d...

Painting based on a scene from the Star Wars film Return of the Jedi, Two figures talk to each other in a dark hallway, behind are some steps.

A picture of a calendar showing the month of October and featuring the painting previously described.

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