GontijoLab

This is where I store random beauty and sometimes post about my own ongoing projects.

[gontijolab]

My name is Gontijo and I'm a graphic designer mad about Tabletop RPGs and Layout design. Nice to meet you.

Let's work together!

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Email: [email protected]

Discord: Gontijo#9471 (or just "gontijolab")

[gontijolab]

Thought provoking Art reading #1

By God's grace I've managed to enter the "Master in Visual Arts" program at the University of Brasilia (UnB). Hurray!

The classes didn't started yet, but I already saw what disciplines I'll study and their respective bibliography lists. I'll follow the only strategy that works for me in terms of studying: I'll read and write chapter-by-chapter reviews of as much as possible (if not all the books) starting on my holidays, aka the next two weeks.

My first reading started today and it is Ways of Seeing, by John Berger. This book was born from Berger wanting to expand and dive deeper on the content of an earlier BBC docuseries he filmed back in the 70s.

At the first chapter I'm already excited with the provocations the author proposes. This is still far away from tabletop RPGs per se, but at the same time... It's giving me material to reflect on the whys and the hows on visual art processes. And, of course, on it's radical differences from graphic design processes.

Maybe most of us are wasting a good opportunity regarding the dimensions of fruition on ttrpg art. But it's still early to say for sure. Let me go back to my book.

[rosenkranz-does-things]

some attempts at vintage pulp covers style

[rosenkranz-does-things]

prints

[jettpack]

Overworld Concept Art I did for WHERE THE WATER TASTES LIKE WINE, back in 2016.

[gontijolab]

"In their battle against the spoken language, characters of the alphabet (which are basically nothing but dead letters, invented to spin the magical promise of myth out into lines) suck the life of the language up into themselves: letters are vampires." Vilém Flusser, 1987

[hbtyson]

☀️✨ · 2022

[akeussel]

[plasmometer]

LOVE LETTER TO THE ELECTRICAL GRID

plexiglas etching

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[goodluckpress]

Underneath is a solo cave exploration and mapping game of the unexpected things you encounter underground. Map, journal, and roll dice to build out a winding cave system while dealing with all the dangers and perils subterranean caverns have to offer. Build the cave system, unearth its unknown pockets, map your discoveries, and try to make it out in one piece.

Play to find out what dwells… Underneath.

Underneath

A solo map-making and journalling game of exploring unknown cave systems and encountering the strange things that dwell underground.

[jettpack]

Character Art I did for Where the Water Tastes like Wine, I was the principal artist on this project. it was so long ago. Some of these images are 8 years old. Absolutely crazy.

[lyrifaun]

Thank you so much for the art. I love this game, I’ve been working through it for years in little meditative bursts. The art is killer all the way down— some of the spookiest and most beautiful pieces ever.

Everyone should play this thing.

[gontijolab]

Under Our Dying Lights

"You are an anthropomorphic candle. Romans are purging Christians in the streets of Nero. Light the martyr's escape, burn Rome down by doing so. Step up a d6 when you fire. On 6 you melt away."

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Guilherme Gontijo Jan 4, 2025

[ladytabletop]

Solo TTRPG Catalog

A brief post today to share a tool I’ve been working on lately. I play a lot of solo games. I get asked for recommendations about solo games

Put together a catalog of over 500 solo games.

[dribbblepopular]

[yodaprod]

If I knew how to knit, I would make socks like this!

[drewwise]

Official Godzilla vs. Hedorah 18x24 screen printed posters.

[chernobog13]

Surf meets turf in Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966), aka Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster!

Image by Nobuhiko Ito (@itonobuhiko/X/Twitter).

[horrormovieboy]

Wolf Man

[rottingfacade]

i love those blinking red lights they put on top of radio towers and windmills and skyscrapers etc, theyre like electronic flowers or something to me

[rottingfacade]

[headspace-hotel]

kind eyes of angels

[naamahdarling]

Remote and alien intelligences. Lonely. Observe everything, judge nothing. Understood me as a child. Passed awareness of me from tower to tower all the way home during nighttime drives.