#m-9808

Mistigram: to fully appreciate just why acclaimed Mist Classic ASCII artist Dead Soul drew an illustration of gladiatorial combat in an ice rink between two very mismatched penguin champions, you would have had to attend a Mist meet-up at Benny's Bagels in the summer of 1998. Because you didn't, you are doomed to bafflement. This piece was included in the long-delayed M-9808 artpack collection.

Mistigram: it's difficult to explain just why Dead Soul was doodling an aggressive, yet oddly refined, penguin at a Mist meet circa 1998, and yet nevertheless here we have one. (In an attempt to demonstrate how many different approaches there could be to a single topic, we had a few rounds of shared drawing exercises, some of which (eventually) wound up in the M-9808 artpack collection, finally released over a decade and a half later by which point the enormous novelty of drawing a picture, then digitizing it with a scanner, was considerably diluted. Still, nice penguin though!)

Today on Mistigram, from the "lost" M-9808 artpack: "dreams of flying", Tincat's final work in RIPscrip vector art... never released until 2015 - but well worth the wait! http://ift.tt/2jlhqJh

https://www.instagram.com/p/BHqzsL_DwqK/ Today on Mistigram, a Mist promo VGA (piece of high resolution art) depicting a surreal 3-D landscape, modelled by Quebec's Enelf Daragard and submitted to our doomed M-9808 artpack. (Doomed because we'd bitten off more than we could chew in framing an entire artpack as a website, an effort that stopped Mistigris dead in its tracks until the logjam was finally resolved in 2015.) But unburdened of that fateful context, it was a nice piece for 1998!