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I am Maxime Minard, a french Illustrator working for Magic the Gathering Feel free to ask questions | max.minard@hotmail.com Portfolio : https://istrandar.artstation.com/

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Thank you so much, I really enjoyed making those. I felt like it was a side of the story that rarely got told.

10.10.2025 10:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hard surface is so scary to me, I can get the pain.
But yeah it's true that confort zone need to be built, I guess it's about taking enough time and accepting that they need to be constructed.

08.10.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks !
I love painting creatures and but I wish I could get better at other subjects. I really want to do more sci-fi stuff but whenever I never finish thos kind of sketches. It's hard to exti a confort zone

08.10.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reposting some personal works I made during the last years.
I wish I could be more ambitious with my own work but I often end up doing very safe illustrations. I really like them but I wish I had the energy to try some new subjects

08.10.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 174    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spooky season

03.10.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 841    πŸ” 180    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2
Painting of an elemental incarnation called Emptiness, a giant faceless skeletal creature, trailing smoke and walking through a swamp

Painting of an elemental incarnation called Emptiness, a giant faceless skeletal creature, trailing smoke and walking through a swamp

Emptiness, 14"x18" oil on linen panel
#MtGLorwyn #MtGart

I love painting faces and was really looking forward to all the cool creatures of Lorwyn since the first one was before my time. But I guess someone has to paint a horrific creature with the absence of a face. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

29.09.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 811    πŸ” 165    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 4

I'll try to do that before going !

22.09.2025 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey !
I'm going to Magicon Atlanta next week. If anyone wants to meet me there, I'll be at my booth.

21.09.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is peak gnome mount ! I love those spiders so much

08.09.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

HUMAN artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you

08.09.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 177    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Live over!
Most of Juuoil is finally done, we're on the final stretch, I can feel it in my undead whale rib bone!!! (please don't eat the jerky though)❀️
Thank you @icyokamivt.bsky.social for the raid!✨
In the end we sent the sog to @poletecroquete.bsky.social πŸ’¦
Until next time, behave
Cya!
#wip

01.09.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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The whispers of the forest. Rustling softly, as if something magical stirs, ready to carry you through the seasons of time.

30.08.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1199    πŸ” 309    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 0
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Endpaper I made for "A Song of Legends Lost"

27.08.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸƒEndless JourneyπŸƒ
#art #juliametzgerart

25.08.2025 12:06 β€” πŸ‘ 457    πŸ” 112    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 1
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The sketches !
Chasmfiend are big, have a lot of legs and are quite low to the ground so finding the right pose was challenging. Figuring out how it could move and how to have it emote was an interesting task. I used the front legs to show weight and stability and make the composition flow.

20.08.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Chasmfiend on the Hunt"
Illustration made for the Cosmere Rpg.
I was reading the Stormlight archives a second time when I got the opportunity to make this so I was fully hype ! Bringing to life such a cool creature was a treat

20.08.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 91    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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I was also making this little guy, but it is still in the unfinished folder

17.08.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I just realised I didn't uploaded this as an animation but as a still. So there is the little rig test I did a few month ago. I was planning on doing a full animation but I got distracted and ended up making a game (I'll try to show this soon !)

17.08.2025 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 101    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey #portfolioday

Let the Helldivers devs and Game Grumps know I'm available in the late fall and after. For whatever :)

08.07.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2472    πŸ” 417    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 5

Thanks !
I'll try to share a few stuff when i have time. I'm planning to do a 3D animation that leans more into sci-fi like blame but I have no idea when I'll be able to work on it.

08.07.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The card ! It's a cool and weird design, I love it. It feels very mtg

08.07.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Some of the preparatory work I did for the illustration. The idea of adding Sothera (the black hole) came later from Vic and it really helped the piece

08.07.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Bygone Colossus

While I do not often draw sci-fi art I'm a big fan of the genre. So had a blast painting this illustration for mtg, the black hole was especially fun

AD : Vic Ochoa

08.07.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 785    πŸ” 90    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 1
Clouds loom high over a distant lighthouse. A small sailboat passes in the foreground, and above a massive woman towers in the clouds, flanked by two owls. The woman is surrounded with pale drapery that mimics the color and shape of the clouds. She looks down upon the lighthouse and boat.

Clouds loom high over a distant lighthouse. A small sailboat passes in the foreground, and above a massive woman towers in the clouds, flanked by two owls. The woman is surrounded with pale drapery that mimics the color and shape of the clouds. She looks down upon the lighthouse and boat.

gonna call this one done, I think 🀞

20.06.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 5836    πŸ” 1165    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 11
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Life (2020)

13.10.2024 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 194    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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