Laurel Austin is a canadian artist who lives in USA. She has the dream job of many gamers: since 2011 she works for Blizzard as a conceptual artist. Her work can be seen in Blizzard's main franchises:
Diablo 3,
Starcraft 2 and
World of Warcraft.
If this brief introduction doesn't motivate you to see
Laurel Austin's work, let me say this: her illustrations are just fantastic, really amazing, exploring medieval fantasy worlds (as in Wow and Diablo) and sci-fi fantasy (as in Starcraft). There are illustrations of monsters, dragons, orcs, dwarves, barbarians e all kinds of mystic and fantastic creatures.
Appreciate the amazing and fantastic illustrations for Blizzard games by Laurel Austin:
Deathwing! Alexstraza! Nozdormu! Ysera! Kalecgos! Art for deck package of World of Warcraft TCG (Trade Carding Game) expansion Battle of the Aspects.
Blizzard Hearthstone (card game)
The 3 main game franchises from Blizzard
Female Demon hunter (Diablo 3)
Hydralisk (Starcraft 2)
Orc (World of Warcraft)
Barbarian woman and goatman (Diablo 3)
Headless Horseman (World of Warcraft TCG)
Kerrigan, Queen of Blades (Starcraft 2)
Lumbering Oaf for World of Warcraft TCG
Pandaren Lorewalker - illustration made for Mists of Pandaria expansion's launch
The Egg Thief (personal work)
Thrall for WoW TCG
Ultraxion dragon (illustration from Battle of the Aspects expansion of World of Warcraft card game)
Violet Proto-Drake (WoW TCG)
Hogger (WoW TCG)
Anaka, Draenei Paladin - illustration for Throne of Tides expansion of World of Warcraft: The Card Game
Asoren Darksnout, Tauren Deathknight
Skinny Cthulhu (one of two illustrations not Blizzard related in this post)
Images from
Laurel "tully" Austin at CGHub. Via
The Design Inspiration - Pandaren Lorewalker.
