Introducing the 2nd Community Art Pack!
By Sam Keilback
Chocked to the brim with alt-arts drawn by artists from the Netrunner community, this alt-art pack works great as extra prizing for a weekly league, local game night kit or even more competitive events such as a local district or megacity! These prizes are non-exclusive, meaning that they can be used to supplement prize support at all levels of organized play.
This pack is available to purchase for anyone with an organizer account on the ManintheMoon website! If you’re a player who wants these alt-arts, ask your local TO to run an event with these as prizes, or create an account and start organizing events in your local community!
Click HERE to purchase the Community Art Pack!
This pack features art from all across the Netrunner community, including artists such as: Jinksey, Lucius Felimus, Lunari, nervousnightjar, ManintheMoon, Elessar Ellie and Scott Uminga! Take a sneak peek at some of their art below:
We had the opportunity to catch up with Jinksey, an artist in this community pack. We asked him some questions about his artistic process and the cards he drew for the Community Art Pack!
Could you please introduce yourself?
I go by Jinksey and live in the SF Bay Area. I’m relatively new to both Netrunner (getting into the game about 18 months ago) and digital art (I started learning digital art about 6 or 7 months ago). I come from a board gaming background and do Intellectual Property Law stuff during the day.
How did you get involved with Netrunner?
Aside from a quick demo game at a board game convention back in 2015, my first real play of Netrunner was in the summer of 2024. I have a regular board gaming group and one of the other guys in the group and I decided to give it a shot based on its reputation.
We both dug it, and I was looking for more so I decided to check out a local meetup to get some more plays in. This was around August 2024. I was a complete noob and just had System Gateway and System Update 2021 at the time, but the locals were super friendly. At that first meetup, I remember some locals explained to me that Worlds was coming up in SF in October and said I should come out for it. I laughed at the idea as I was so new to the game. I barely knew the rules and didn’t know what 90% of the cards in the card pool did.
But, after thinking about it and going to another meetup or two, I decided to give it a shot. I figured that a big event like this wouldn’t be so nearby again anytime soon, and it wouldn’t be a big commitment since I didn’t need to fly or even get a hotel. So, I dove into trying to learn Standard. My very first event ever was ManintheMoon’s Worlds Showdown in September 2024. Then, after that, my very first in-person event was Worlds 2024 in October. I managed to find a last minute Crown of Servers team for Friday and joined the main Standard event and Startup event during the weekend. During the main event, I ground out games with Zahya and PD at the bottom tables. I did terribly at the event, but I had a blast. Everyone was super friendly and welcoming!
I’ve been playing regularly since then, hitting up other local SF Bay Area events and meetups when I can make it.
What motivated you to draw your first alt-art?
My day job is pretty busy and uncreative (I’m an IP Lawyer) and I honestly haven’t done anything creative really for a couple of decades since I was in high school. Last year I decided I wanted to force myself to do something creative for the first time in a long while.
I wanted to learn digital art, so I downloaded Procreate onto my iPad and thought I’d just start doodling and watching YouTube videos to learn the basics. But, I was struggling with picking specific subject matter to draw. Then the light bulb went off; I could use alt arts as a source of inspiration for actually putting digital pen to paper. The cards are a natural place to spark an idea. I also don’t consider myself very creative on my own, so I find the constraints of the cards (e.g. the size/orientation of the canvas, etc.) helpful to kickstart some ideas.
What consideration goes into picking a specific card to do an alt-art for?
So there are three different ways that I typically land on making an alt.
1. I see an existing card and the card sparks a different take/perspective on it that I want to pursue.
2. I look at my collection and realize I need extra copies of a particular card so I can sleeve multiple decks simultaneously and start thinking about what I might do for that card.
3. I follow a YouTube tutorial on making a digital painting that I think looks cool, and then I try to think about how I can translate that digital painting into a card.
What things influence your drawing style?
Honestly, I’m such a novice that I don’t feel like I have my own “style”. Sometimes I see other people’s art and it inspires me to try to emulate them. Other times I have a basic idea in my head, and just try to get it down, but it comes out weird and janky and then I try to go with it.
Why did you draw Anthill Excavation Contract and Gourmand for the alt-art pack?
Gourmand - This was actually the very first alt art I ever drew. When Elevation was released, I thought Cat Shen’s Gourmand was adorable. My first thought when I saw the Gourmand art was that I could picture one of the gremlins from the old 80’s/90’s movies as a digital gremlin eating at wires and stuff in digital space. I did some googling and found a scene from one of the movies, and I wanted to see if I could use it as inspiration for the alt. This was the result. I ended up using Ams’ frames for the rules/card text, as I was still new to making art.
Anthill Excavation Contract - As I continued to teach myself how to do digital art, I found YouTube videos and tutorials helpful. I stumbled upon an illustrator, Chris Piascik, who has a very unique and quirky drawing style that I dig. He has this tendency to use very simple color palettes with bold and contrasting colors. After watching some of his videos, I decided I wanted to try to make a full slate of “weird” alts for common runner and corp cards across all factions using the same color palette and a quirky style. It was a fun project. Anthill Excavation Contract is the one I ended up going with for Weyland, as I figured it’s a solid card that people always need extra copies of. My other “weird” cards are shown below:
I think I’m going to try to do another slate of “weird” cards when Vantage Point comes out.
What advice would you give to anyone who is looking to draw their first alt-art?
Just go for it! I’m an absolute novice with no formal training. I literally doodle on my iPad while watching Metropole Grid or Neon Hustle. In the last six or seven months since I started, I’ve made around 50 alt arts. I sold some alts at Worlds 2025 thanks to NSG’s awesome Artist Colony volunteers, and I’m drawing alts for upcoming SF Bay Area events during the Districts/Megacity Season. If I can do it, literally anyone can.
Do you have any socials you’d like to plug?
My MPC store is here, but, like, buy stuff from ManintheMoon.
A warm thank you to Jinksey for their contributions to the Community Art Pack, and answering our questions!
We’re always looking for more community artists to spotlight. If you have an alt-art you want to contribute to the next community pack, fill out this form!
If you want to pick up a copy of this alt-art pack for your local meta, or even just for yourself, click here! Check out the variety of other alt-art and tournament packs that you can find through NetrunnerCards.net!
For those looking to play in their next online showdown, look to the asia-pacific region, as the APAC Showdown will be run on March 21st! Keep your eyes peeled as we look to spotlight the great players APAC has to offer and share the awesome prizes up for grabs.