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Hearthstone Art Book Now Available for Pre-Order!
A new art book for Hearthstone has been found on Amazon - a first of its kind!
The book is titled "The Art of Hearthstone" and is available on Amazon for $45. Here's what else we know.
- Release Date: October 15, 2017
- Page Count: 288
- Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment
- Product Dimensions: 11 x 1 x 10 inches
- Includes concept art, final art, and Hearthstone history.
Quote from BlizzardThe Art of Hearthstone offers an in-depth glimpse into the creativity that made the wildly popular collectible card game into a global phenomenon. From the unseen concepts built early in Hearthstone’s development to the hundreds of beautiful fantasy illustrations that have captured players’ imaginations, this volume will show readers the art of the game in breathtaking detail. The book also tells the story of how Hearthstone came to be, growing from a small-team project to the worldwide success that it is today with more than 50 million players.
Most of the people complaining about the price don't seem to understand that this is really cheap for a book like this. I've bought smaller ones worth at least double this.
Seriously, if it's not worth it to you just don't buy it. Stop whining for no reason, especially when you don't know what your talking about.
Also this doesn't effect or hamper the games development in any way so stop acting like this book is the reason for anything you don't like about the game.
Is it possible to buy items from amazon in all countries? Im not able to buy amazon coins from here
45$ Only? Almost a criminal price. Don't think people today understand the work that goes behind such things. Today people google "X" and get image art by "X" artist. And it'll be 90% will go against "not allowed to display" copy right laws, BUT still do it. Because they know, it's a fkn nightmare to fight that system today.
I've done art as well online, stopped, because the income is just not enough since almost everything gets stolen and put up one shady sites and sold there as well (someone will scan this art book and put it online, which should go under art theft laws.... but doesn't.... not yet).
Some people offers the most SHAMEFUL prices for order/getting a art jobs done. It's an talent and ability few is born with. So, 45$ for an art book is just an a amazing price for such a thing.
Sorry, had to get that out of my system. Still upset how people threat the digital art market. I guess it would be fair, if we could just walk into your office at work and just take your stuff. :P
I know right!? I'm artist myself so I understand what goes into even just a single piece. I wish I had a few extra bucks laying around to get this. 288 pages of beautiful illustrations as well as concept/history. $45 is definitely a fantastic price!
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know how much it costs to make a single piece of artwork?
So I am assuming that one card, just from my guesswork, probably has lets say 4 revisions, and with color and all, I bet each card takes about 8-20 hours of solid work. So If you are paying for good work, each piece could cost anywhere from 240-600$... just a guess though
So basically we're getting a $117 555 discount....seems legit.
(Average cost for one piece of artwork = (240+600)/2 = 420; I'm presuming there's going to be 2 paintings per page but I'm going to do the safe bet and guess that 280 pages out of the 288 will be actual images with text while the rest is miscellaneous (contents, copyright, etc.). Thus, the total cost behind the book = 420*280 = $117 600)
Well, kinda. XD
If you were to commission a unique book with each artwork being original.
Also, since they're working for a big company, they are probably paid more towards the $500-600 per piece at the minimum. Plus it depends on how they do the original work (but I think this applies more for Magic careds). Also, how experienced/well-known the artist is can vary the price.
So when I buy this, I can tell my wife that I saved us over $100,000 right? Math adds up to me! Haha
Hahaha!!! XD
'Mind if I roll need!'
*Loot Hoarder's heavy breathing intensifies*
If you restore EU pack prices back to normal then I MIGHT buy your book Bli$$ard.
Waiting for someone to put the pics on internet...
45 $ LUL
Or, you know ... just look at your cards :/
Most of HS art is average at best, you will find better by just randomly browsing deviant art, sad but true
Will the book have 10 extra pages if we pre-order it? :)
Eh, guess it's better than Apple's $300 picture book. Blizzard hasn't reached that level of money-grubbing... yet.
Yea lets go buy a f** book and play pirate warrior cause the meta only has 2 classes now ! Good Job Blizz & Fans who buy this s***!
You're welcome
Better yet, if I turn the page to see a Legendary artwork will I hear the Whoah Legendary! sound?