GUILD WARS 2 ART (98pics & growing) ART BOOK- OUT NOW! update 7/27 p.11

**zenichi** · August 30th, 2009

shitting my pants over the environments...

**sabin boykinov** · August 30th, 2009

Absolutely amazing artworks people !
Respect to all your hard work, and looking to see the art book in my hands))
..and to play the game !

**andre_allao** · August 30th, 2009

Originally Posted by Ragnar X

"The Art of Guild Wars 2 is a hardbound book packed with 128 pages of eye candy by ArenaNet's award-winning artists. The vivid collection of concept art offers a long-awaited glimpse into the world of Guild Wars 2. Within these pages you'll visit the undead realm of Orr, meet the mysterious sylvari, and behold the fiery war machines of the charr. This book is a must-have for any Guild Wars fan."

Here's the cover to the art book, and it's quite neat! Daniel (Tinfoil) composed it. It's made up of a ton of cool line art and sketches by a lot of the guys and gals here... maybe they'll post some for ya!!! (Matt, Levi, Jaime, Rich...) The text stuff as well as the entire book layout was done by the super talented Mr. Andrio Abero! The book really does look fantastic and Andrio took the art direction and ran with it keeping the layout both stylish and clean. We'll post a couple of product shots soon as we get a release date!
Show up to PAX if you can, we're signing and handing out a lotta books!

Oh man... GREAT NEWS!!!!

I was hoping for this book... I´ll be saving my money and keeping an eye on Amazon for it.

I'm sure it will be a success, you guys deserve it!

Man, this definetely raised my mood...
=))

**Space dust** · August 30th, 2009

ive been playing guild wars alot recently, and noticing that tranfer from concept visuals to 3d visuals is pretty close, the 3d team do a good job of capturing the concepts, also evidence in the gw2 teaser the transfer from concept to ingame is insane

cant wait for this release

**Sam111111** · August 30th, 2009

You guys make me want to:
-buy an art book [which hasn't ever happened, because I'm cheap]
-buy a new computer for Guild Wars 2
Just ... I saw the first thread here. And this work is better. I didn't think it was possible to progress from the first one, either.

**towy** · August 31st, 2009

really nice : ) ******

**TheGnoll** · August 31st, 2009

great news about the book, can't wait to put my hands on it!

personally i'm really looking forward to seeing what MC Barrett has been doing for the game as well!

ciao

**Moai** · August 31st, 2009

Originally Posted by TheGnoll

personally i'm really looking forward to seeing what MC Barrett has been doing for the game as well!

Me too!

**jabraniho** · August 31st, 2009

Awesome work guys!!!

Thanks for the inspiration!!

-jung

**mrhugecojones** · August 31st, 2009

For some time I have recented Guildwars 2, the reason is because I learned of its coming just when I started to get good at Guildwars. The fact that Guildwars is going to be K.O. by GW2 is quite annoying for those of us that have worked so hard on the first game. It's sort of what you have invested in was for nothing and that has made GW2 somewhat impopular to many GW players.

Just by looking at this trailer I realized how wrong I was, this is going to be one hell of a game featuring a mind blowing world that surpasses any game out there so far, well worth to be called Guildwars 2 and just by the looks of it I dare to say I'll trade Guildwars for Guildwars 2, evolution must take place and the next face of Guildwars evolution is near, so sweet!

The art works in the current Guildwars campaigns are impressive and it is a relieved for me to see the second part looks even better, good job.

Thanks.

**slyve** · August 31st, 2009

This artbook will be mine, those concepts are mind blowing

**Ashrumm** · September 1st, 2009

awesome!!

**nixiesaurus** · September 1st, 2009

speechless.
If it wasn't for the beautiful art of guild wars, I would not have play it.

**Smyk Vitaliy** · September 2nd, 2009

Stunning art. Amasing design and colors. Thanks for this inspiration. Loved your works all the time.

**=SiD=** · September 2nd, 2009

the artwork is awesome... compliments!!!

**TitusCrow** · September 2nd, 2009

wow, never thought I would see game are on par with the new blizzard stuff but seems I was wrong! the pure artistic vision of this will make me get the game. sensational!! :o

**wizo5454** · September 2nd, 2009

wow...and I thought the art for GW 1 was mindblowing, it seems you guys have gotten even better, GW2 is looking incredible!!

Ill buy any products you guys release...especially the art book, Im totally sold to the art shown here.

**M.C.Barrett** · September 2nd, 2009

Here's a bit of stuff I did...

**Irene Gallo** · September 2nd, 2009

Holy smokes I cannot wait for this book.

**Max Challie** · September 2nd, 2009

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/att...1&d=1251940801
i LOVE it when you make stuff like that Matt! All those honeycomb-like organic patterns, you did some landscapes like that for the other games as well, right?

**GriNGo** · September 3rd, 2009

Some of the most original enviroments I have seen anywhere! Fantastic work guys!

**Ben Mauro** · September 3rd, 2009

M.C. Barrett

**Dahami** · September 3rd, 2009

Looking at these images brings back the thrill I had as a child when first looking at The Art of the Empire Strikes Back in the early eighties. I wanted to sit in that bookstore studying the book all day, and hoped my parents would never take me away to our next shopping destination. It's inspiring to see the different directions a design could have gone in, and especially so when the subject is science fiction or fantasy (or the hybrid between the two that the Asura represent). Great work M.C. Barrett!

**aeronox** · September 3rd, 2009

Originally Posted by M.C.Barrett

Here's a bit of stuff I did...

Incredible! I'm developing http://www.ratasum.com (Community site) at the moment; these will definitely help inspire the design of it.

The trailer in-game shots of the Asura locations are awesomely epic.

Asura,

Rata Sum!

**kischi** · September 3rd, 2009

man you guys are so awesome!!! The World of Guild Wars is so fantastic and so full of inspiration. Thanks for all you hard working guys.

**me2wired** · September 3rd, 2009

Really fantastic artwork there guys. Though for some reason I'm suddenly having issues seeing images on ConceptArt.org.

**Giorge** · September 3rd, 2009

Nebunie frate ! haha pura nebunie!!

Thanks for all the wonderful posts , we might get brain-diabetes from all the eye-candy you gave us!

Cheers Dan , Horia and all of the other 170+ people that were involved into this !

**bombertaylor** · September 4th, 2009

is it just me? or I cannot see the pictures??!!

**Dahami** · September 4th, 2009

me2wired and bombertaylor... Same here all of a sudden. Maybe a temporary problem with the server. An art site isn't very useful if you can't see the art.