Artist: Nils Hamm

Continuing artist month, today I look at Nils Hamm.

Hamm started illustrating Magic cards in 2007 for the Future Sight set. He is still actively creating for the game today.

Hamm's style is hard for me to describe. In a 2019 interview, he says "The part I enjoy the most is "finding" the image in that chaotic abstract surface in the beginning." Chaotic abstract might be the phrase I am looking for. Hamm's images are dreamlike and dark; the thing you might see in a nightmare or frightfully imagine walking on a dark forest path. His style is 

I use Scryfall for searching for Hamm illustrations. The following syntaxes in scryfall
artist:"Hamm" not:digital not:artseries
artist:"Hamm" not:digital not:artseries unique:prints
yield the following results, respectively:
215 cards
476 cards

So he illustrated 215 unique Magic cards that have appeared 476 times (some show up in multiple sets or special releases). Here are some of my favorites.