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Pete Venters

Pete Venters

@peteventers.bsky.social

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Illustrator, writer, world builder. Pretty much neck-deep involved with Magic: The Gathering for the last 30 years.

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Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · 12d

I really need to find my Orc team to show you. OMG, I think they were painted 35 years ago!

Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · 23d

Do you have photos of the alt art boosters you're missing?

Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · 24d

You had the color one. So fancy.

Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hah! If only I could solely take the blame for that wee nightmare realm. Quite a bit of the codification was being set by John Tynes before I arrived, but I did help it to flourish. 😁

Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · Aug 25

It often eludes me that because you've worked on Magic's story, it means we've worked on the same project, albeit 25+ years apart.

Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · Aug 15

Before shipping the Antiquities paintings to WotC, I made color photocopies in case something happened to them in transit.

A friend showed up at my studio later that afternoon, glanced at Rocket Launcher and said “Why’d you paint a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle?”

I’ve never been able to unsee it.

Taya, Sleepy Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @tayatranscends.bsky.social · Aug 15

This is a @peteventers.bsky.social appreciation post

Rocket Launcher
4
Poly Artifact
2: Do 1 damage to any target.
Rocket Launcher may not be used until it begins a turn in play on your side. If it is used, Rocket Launcher is destroyed at end of turn.
What these devices lacked in subtlety, they made up in strength.
Illus. © Pete Venters

Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · Jul 30

A few people found it. The face is carved into a rocky outcropping at one of the entrances to the town. The idea came as a way to incorporate the concept seen in Graven Cairns.

Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · Jul 30

Yup, that's it.

Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · Jul 30

Yup, you got it.

Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · Jul 30

Yup, that's it.

Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · Jul 30

Btw, did you ever spot the Baron’s face I hid in that Dark Barony painting?

Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · Jul 30

And if they do return, I worry that they won’t ask me to paint the Baron. He still means a lot to me, the great loomy monster that he is.

Reposted by Pete Venters

Tolarian Community College @tolariancommunitycollege.com · Jul 30

I'm beginning to worry we are never going to return to Ulgrotha.

Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · Jul 29

Hmm.

Anyway, do it if it’s what makes you happy. I’m sure the side-eye won’t be any more than usual for your lock screens.

Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · Jul 14

Fun fact: WotC’s scheduling was thrown into chaos by the runaway success of MtG, so they found themselves assigning art for Antiquities, Legends, and the Dark simultaneously.

I had 2-3 weeks to get my Antiquities pieces in the mail, and then I could settle into all the black cards I had in Legends

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Magic Art @moxarcana.com · Jun 15

Touch of Darkness (Legends)
Artist: Pete Venters

"Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray,/
Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may."
—Thomas Middleton, The Witch

#magicthegathering #mtg

Art for the Magic: the Gathering card 'Touch of Darkness' from the set 'Legends' by the artist 'Pete Venters'

Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · Jun 12

I’ve never heard of the thing and expect it’s going to be mostly supposition and extrapolation. Also, I can assure you that all the documentation for Magic’s backstory was written on computers from 1994 onwards. It probably always was, but I witnessed it in 94.

Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · Mar 20

That's certainly always been my plan.

Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · Mar 18

Oh yeah, me too. Dragons-a-go-go, what’s not to love?!

Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · Mar 7

Let me know how it performs. If the fingers can be pushed into unreasonable positions then I see its only value is for improving foreshortening.

Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · Mar 6

Always a joy.

Googly Eyes On Magic Cards @magicgooglyeyes.bsky.social · Mar 2

Not to be confused with dynamite fishing

#DynamiteDiver #mtg #MagicTheGathering #MTGAetherdrift

Dynamite Diver

Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · Feb 26

Hey, I'm actually visiting ECCC. Maybe I can pop by and you won't have to explain much to me!

Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · Jan 27

Sunbillow Verge
18” by 14”
The auction for the original art ends today at 11pm Eastern / 8pm Pacific.

The auction takes place in the MTG Art Market group on Facebook.
www.facebook.com/groups/mtgar...

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Goth Auntie @cupcakegoth.bsky.social · Jan 26

Psst. Hey. Hey you. A new Gothic Charm School article will be published tomorrow!

Pete Venters @peteventers.bsky.social · Jan 24

Thanks, that balance fought me continually until it finally clicked. One of the things that helped is the warm shadows in the leftmost billows of sand at the portal.