Hearthpwn

Adventures of Aiden Hall

4009 pictures handpicked to fit Hearthstone card creation.

I have always enjoyed digital fantasy art, especially Warcraft's, in April I set out on an adventure with my camera, to capture all the creatures, landscapes, battlefields, cities and magical objects of Azeroth. After I began using this growing gallery to create cards, it hit me that I should tag all the pictures with fitting keywords and share it with the community. Judging and tagging over 4000 pictures is no joke and it has been a test of patience and stamina, but I refused to abandon the project and here I am with the first upload, giving back to the community.

I have no idea of how big or when the next update will be, because it depends on how much new good art I find and my spare time, I work on a lot of different projects and this project is now very low priority. I will certainly not deliver 4000 pictures next time! :)

How To Use

The Tags

Well this is very important, so you'll know what to search with! Unless you just want to explore random pictures :)

Every single picture is tagged with either Minion, Spell, Hero, Location or Item depending on what kind of card that would fit the art. Also, if the picture depicts a minion, it's tagged with either Melee, Ranged, Caster, Dual or Fist to describe its fighting style.

Legend = A known character in lore is depicted. | *Race = *Insert known race. Blood Elf, Human, Naga, Orc, Eredar, Gnoll etc. | Monster: Impossible to identify as male or female, monstrous looking and doesn't fit any of the known races. | *Class = *Insert any of the 9 classes, Death Knight, Demon Hunter or Engineer. If a picture strongly represents a class. | Group = 2 or more beings are in focus. | Rider = A being is riding another being or vehicle. | Armored = A being that is heavily armored.| Silly = Not as serious as the rest, Vinter Veil and Valentine's goes with this. | Neutral = A being that seems harmless, a critter, infant or one who is truly neutral, that have no allegiance to anyone but itself. | Favorite = A picture I personally would love to create a card with.

Self-explanatory popular tags: Male, Female, Demon, Murloc, Corrupt, Element, Totem, Pirate, Mech, Treant, Giant, Weapon, City, Dinosaur, Winter, Rider, Beast, Dragon, Staff, Dagger, Axe, Hammer, Sword, Spear, Robe, Book, Trinket, Fire, Frost, Holy, Shadow, Nature, Arcane, Lightning, Flying, Nope, Beard, Battlefield, Aquatic.

Example: Need a male character, that wears a robe, while playing with fire? "male caster fire"

Other Information

• The folder is 879 MB. I've double-checked that no picture is over 2 MB, as hearthcards.net don't allow a picture to be more than 2 MB.
• The tags Legend, Silly, Fist, Dual and Favorite came in at about 50% completion; So some pictures that should have these, don't. Battlefield, Neutral, Beard and Aquatic came in the September.2015 Update.
• I began downloading card art that's already in the game, but I think people want to create new cards with new art, so I stopped gathering those specific pictures. If people still want to create a card with existing art, they can easily find it on Google using the card's name.
• Of course there will be duplicates and pictures that miss a tag or two, but they should be a minority.
• Tell me if there's a tag you think should exist; Or you think the gallery lack pictures for a certain race, class or legend.
• Want to contribute? Send me 50 of your favorite fantasy art pictures that you think would fit with a Hearthstone card and tag them using my tag structure. If you go on a spree like me, gathering hundreds of pictures, I'm afraid you will gather many of the already captured ones, as I have been to all the obvious places. Also, keeping the number of pictures low makes it easier for me to double-check before allowing them into the gallery.

Yes, there are at least 219 pictures tagged with Druid, minions as druids or druid spells. 

Never owned a mac, but this is just a simple folder full of pictures so it shouldn't be a problem. If Mac doesn't have the search bar in the up-right corner, I'm sure there's another way. Even if .rar files was made for Windows back in the day, Mac should be able to open it because .rar and .zip are popular formats :)

Thank you for helping the community create new, original cards :)

You are awesome, and you should feel awesome. I thought you should know that

Thank you so much :)

Quote from KaoticKreature jump

This is amazing aiDen! I've always admired the art style of WoW and love creating cards, so this will definitely come in handy! Just a question, if I want a Druid depicted in the art, can I do that? Also, this might seem like a silly question but if I'm on a Mac, can I still use this?

it works perfectly fine, its just an rar file with jpg/jpeg in it.

And thanks aiDen! its pretty helpful. Especially when I have exhausted those art from  pinterest and google image ha

This is so awesome. Thanks a bunch aiDen!

 Amazing... you are the man!

Well, the Nope-tag was self-explanatory after all.

 This is simply wonderful! Thank you so much for this man!

Excellent, cheers man.

This is truly fantastic work!
Thanks for putting all that effort to aid your fellow card creators!

Amazing job! This is great help for everyone who enjoys card creation. Thanks a lot!

Wow! I'm gonna have a talk with Asylum and Shadows and discuss whether we should sticky this :)

Holy Shit!This is amazing, I can only imagine how much time you put into this, good work!