Alex Horley's Full Art for Hearthstone's New Emerald Malfurion Hero Skin is Incredible

Published 3 years, 4 months ago by Fluxflashor

Rating 4.18/5 (11 Votes)

Alex Horley shared Emerald Malfurion's full art prior to the launch of his Book of Heroes chapter this week and it shows plenty of extra detail! The outer art that we don't get to see on the hero skin shows Malfurion in... the Emerald Dream. Malfurion went looking for the corruption and he sure found it!

Alex painted this stunning piece on a 14x24 canvas with acrylic and oil paints. You can see more of Alex's art over on his site, Twitter, and Instagram. You can also see cards he's created art for in our database.

You can still pickup the Emerald Malfurion hero in the Hearthstone shop through June 30. The new Book of Heroes chapter is also available in-game and completing it will let you experience more of Malfurion's story and give you a Druid card pack for completing the content.

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Comments

Zetro E.V.I.L. Dragon 330 245 Posts Joined 05/28/2019

Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

Alex Horley is a legend. He makes the best artworks.

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AngryShuckie 1705 1735 Posts Joined 06/03/2019

Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

The art is great, but it is a shame all the Malfurion portraits end up looking kinda samey by the time they are cropped for gameplay. Cropping out the Nightmare here really wasted the opportunity to buck that trend.
Also, this is completely separate to the artwork itself, but does anyone else find Malfurion's character really bland? He's involved in lots of interesting events, but he so consistently plays the 'lawful good' role that I struggle to find him interesting.

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Brentk1977 495 60 Posts Joined 05/28/2019

Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

They really need to make full art available in a separate gallery like Mithgard does.

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Theodrinus Hero of Warcraft 1005 297 Posts Joined 12/05/2019

Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

That swirly nightmare thing to the right of Malfurion is Archdruid Naralex's portal when he creates a dream card!

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Draketh Darkmaster 1570 1395 Posts Joined 04/02/2019

Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

It looks amazing, indeed. So much talent!

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OmarComing 790 530 Posts Joined 05/28/2019

Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

This is fantastic, and truly a shame that it doesn’t translate as well into the small portrait crop. I’m happy to be able to admire the fully realized version here!

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linkinboy0 Headmaster 1235 513 Posts Joined 07/07/2019

Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

I love this!!
Is there any piece of art made by Horley not incredible?

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Gilbie 335 208 Posts Joined 06/02/2019

Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

Well, it doesn't save the portret. It would have been nice to have some Nightmare stuff in his portret. Or maybe the shape of Xavius in the background.

However, it is freedom of art and the color palette is awesome.

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