I personally find the Blizz pic far more superior in character, style an attractiveness than the War one.

In a good picture, you have to vanish certain points and emphasize others so the eye can be guided to where you want it to look. So the picture lives, have focal, have atmosphere, the viewer varies between soft and rough, detailed and not, far and close, hot and cold etc.

The War pic have none of these. It doesn’t even have a recognizable brush stroke, the “mojo”that would make the drawer recognizable from others.

As everything is treated equally and with the most “normalisation” possible, the eye just files around, never attracted by something special.
The color palette is disgusting, and the traits are banal. And the monochromatic grey background… sorry, but no.

I’m way more attracted to the Diablo art which have a lot of personality and dynamics, than the War one, which I find boring as my grandmother’s carrot garden.

Why demand more illustration artwork that adds nothing to the game itself instead of wanting the game released sooner?

I really cannot understand you. With lighter/darker graphics I can still see where you are comming from, although I still completely disagree, but it is a matter of taste I guess, but this post is just silly, sorry.

Blizzard should make a contest for ppl to draw conceptions of characters and landscapes >.<

The difference is concept art is used as a design direction and testing tool, and very useful at that, while illustration is a “realistic” representation of already defined objects, and a complete waste of time in what games are concerned. Why? Because this pictures never ever appear in-game, the detail, and the time needed to give it, is instead used up on the actual model you will be playing with.

It would seem you would like time wasted in making beautifully craftet drawings that have no purpose whatsoever, except feed your (our) fan hunger, which as much as I can relate to that, I would rather have the devs focused on actual game content and in finishing the game for us.

Just to clarify things, a single concept artist will likely be responsible for hundreds of artwork that are on a demanding schedule. You would want to make the general idea clear first, before rendering anything. There’s just no such time to render them all. Actually, the concept (whether it’s based on a 3D model or not) is very close to the final barb in the game, which turned out great.

This is a respectable D3 site, these sort of post is really unnecessary.