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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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Quote your art with horns!

30.11.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 92    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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13oct - β€˜the curious and quite dreadful sensation of being forgotten’

18.11.2025 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6438    πŸ” 2197    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 14

Those videos really helped me learning about oil painting, can't wait to see those one !

13.11.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you see this, post your bird art.

Hmm.

11.11.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 140    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 6
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Do you need owls ? Because I really like painting owls

www.artstation.com/istrandar

08.11.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Some monsters for halloween

31.10.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
piece of a decaying buck with odd proportions and a skull face

piece of a decaying buck with odd proportions and a skull face

A big cat character made of dough-like flesh that is struggling to stick to reanimated bones

A big cat character made of dough-like flesh that is struggling to stick to reanimated bones

A skeletal creature dripping black liquid from its ribs. It’s red skull face unhinged

A skeletal creature dripping black liquid from its ribs. It’s red skull face unhinged

Weird creature pulling at its face flesh

Weird creature pulling at its face flesh

horror art dump
[2021].

31.10.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 403    πŸ” 129    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 1
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✨Mein Sehnen ✨
New piece I've done within Cynthia Sheppard's smARTschool class, featuring LΓΊthien TinΓΊviel from Tolkien's Silmarillion.

#art #juliametzgerart

22.10.2025 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3153    πŸ” 662    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 8

Don't worry about it, I'm not well organized and tend to forget to reply to comments sometime.

19.10.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The cursed one

An passion project I made in blender.

I hope you enjoy it

20.05.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2388    πŸ” 786    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 8
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choice

15.10.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 807    πŸ” 169    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks !

15.10.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks !

15.10.2025 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey #PortfolioDay !

I'm Maxime a french freelance illustrator. I love painting creatures and animals.

I'm open for work ! Feel free to contact me

08.04.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 803    πŸ” 190    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 0
A digital sketch of a woman-like shape made of gnarled wood, flesh, and flowers. The majority of the upper half of her head hollowed out and missing.
In a void in the figure's back, the face and hands of a woman peers out, cold eyes looking at the viewer.

A digital sketch of a woman-like shape made of gnarled wood, flesh, and flowers. The majority of the upper half of her head hollowed out and missing. In a void in the figure's back, the face and hands of a woman peers out, cold eyes looking at the viewer.

A digital sketch of a nightmarish elk made of humans, bone, and gristle with its head raised toward the sky. 
A four armed figure wearing a helmet holds up a small object that looks like a foetus.

A digital sketch of a nightmarish elk made of humans, bone, and gristle with its head raised toward the sky. A four armed figure wearing a helmet holds up a small object that looks like a foetus.

A digital sketch of a person holding up a gnarled staff to ward against a large horned and feathered creature and several other humanoid creatures.

A digital sketch of a person holding up a gnarled staff to ward against a large horned and feathered creature and several other humanoid creatures.

A digital sketch of a 3 armed woman. Between her palms is the brightly glowing form of a cat. Erupting out of the cat are various flowers and plants. The woman is a teal colour, and the flowers are a warm purple.

A digital sketch of a 3 armed woman. Between her palms is the brightly glowing form of a cat. Erupting out of the cat are various flowers and plants. The woman is a teal colour, and the flowers are a warm purple.

Hi #PortfolioDay
I'm Carson, a Chinese Canadian illustrator who's been working in freelance illustration since 2012
I've run my own t-shirt company, made emotes and overlays for twitch streamers, and also worked on a couple indie games.

I'm also a partnered twitch streamer - I stream 4 days a week!

14.10.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 549    πŸ” 132    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 1
An illustration of a person from the chin down. They have both their arms around black wolves, which are asleep and cuddled against the person. Two more wolves are asleep and piled on top. The person and the animals are all smeared and smattered with blood, indicating they had a great meal together.

An illustration of a person from the chin down. They have both their arms around black wolves, which are asleep and cuddled against the person. Two more wolves are asleep and piled on top. The person and the animals are all smeared and smattered with blood, indicating they had a great meal together.

Two figured silhouetted walking through a decimated, burned up forest. The first figure is a canine-shaped dog or wolf, with the second being a cloaked, long-haired man. The fog rolls in around their feet in red and their shadows stretch towards the viewer.

Two figured silhouetted walking through a decimated, burned up forest. The first figure is a canine-shaped dog or wolf, with the second being a cloaked, long-haired man. The fog rolls in around their feet in red and their shadows stretch towards the viewer.

A man, bleeding and pierced with arrows, cloaked and bent over on a snowy ground, covered mostly by ominous fog. He is peering out through the shadows of his hood, and his eyes are glowing

A man, bleeding and pierced with arrows, cloaked and bent over on a snowy ground, covered mostly by ominous fog. He is peering out through the shadows of his hood, and his eyes are glowing

An oil painting of a foggy, monochrome forest with a singular man with glowing eyes standing in front of it. Before him are multiple shadows of wolves, their eyes glowing in the darkness as well.

An oil painting of a foggy, monochrome forest with a singular man with glowing eyes standing in front of it. Before him are multiple shadows of wolves, their eyes glowing in the darkness as well.

I love to draw wolves actually. :D

#Art #DarkArt

08.03.2024 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 265    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 0

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‘ 184    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spooky season

03.10.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 871    πŸ” 185    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3
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‘ 825    πŸ” 167    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 4

I'll try to do that before going !

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

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