Holyknight3000
Holyknight3000, or HK is a well known Diablo 3 community wallpaper artist and prominent figure in the Diablo fan art community.
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Background
Holyknight3000, also known as "HK" made him self known a few days after the Diablo 3 announcement on July 1st 2008 with his first wallpaper posted on Diii.net's gallery, which was a screenshot of what we now know was Diablo.
He went on to make the Fiery Runes Series wallpapers, a popular series which is currently in its third series. This series didn't really take off until he spent 5 hrs making the Female Witch Doctor wall art which he only used screenshots from the WWI 2008 Concept Art Trailer.
The initiative by HK to make these wallpapers is one of the main reasons that the prominent Diablo 3 fansite Diii.net started weekly fan wallpaper reports, posted by long time community front figure Flux and called the Diablo III Weekly Wallpaper, a feature much appreciated by the fans.
On 28 May, 2009 HK was recognized for his work and help with the community and became the forum moderator for the Fan Creations Forum and on 3 June, 2009 HK took over the Fan Art Watch from Flux.
In early November of 2009 HK gave himself a second name; a title to be called by, and it was The Runeweaver. The reason behind it was since he made mostly rune based artwork over the first few years of his time making wallpapers for the community.
On November 10th 2009 with the help of Leord and Flux HK restarted the long lost The Dark Library as a watch for fan fiction. After talking about adding a section for Fan fiction in the wiki.
On April 16th 2010, HK began work on his fan class The Untainted. A class that was a combination of a healer, caster and monk style melee with a chance to briefly tank.
Works
Below are the various works, and series Holyknight3000 has posted on diii.net's D3 Wallpaper Gallery.
Holyknight3000 also use nameplates for most of his work, and the variety of different ones has their own wiki article.
Fiery Runes Series
This is the collection and gallery of the Fiery Runes Series by HK.
For all info that was about this series and how it was made please see the Behind the Fiery Runes article.
Series One
The first wallpaper in this series and what started for HK began on July 1st 2008. The series ended on his rendition of Diablo on August 11th 2008.
Series Two
The Second Series began with the headshot of Diablo from the debut d3 logo that showed his head below the name. The image came from the Leipzig Press CD Artwork. The series started to go weekly on every Monday around midnight central time. This series began September 1st 2008 and ended November 10th 2008.
Series Three
Also called Fiery Runes Series Three: Heaven and Hell, or FRS3: Heaven and Hell. This series which began on December 1st 2008 is still on going.
Series Four
Coming Soon
Series iPhone
While HK was working on Series One he saw some d3 wallpaper images on the net for the Apple iPhone and decided to make a few for people who are fans of the series. This way they could have the fiery runes on their mobile iPhone. He also made one from the second series of the Male Witchdoctor. This iPhone series is ongoing with the series as the main series is released.
Series Extras
These are the Extra wallpaper images HK released after he had finished with each series. Some he revisited for better sizing or just better quality remakes. This side series is ongoing as the Fiery Runes Series continues on.
Other Wallpaper
These are the various other Diablo 3 wallpapers that HK made before he began the series and during his downtime making new rune walls, and series.
Cinematic Demon
The Very First Wallpaper's Holyknight3000 made after the diablo 3 announcement.
Concept Art
This was a series of concept art images that HK used, and when he couldn't use them for the Fiery Runes Series he created a side series.
Diablo 3 Wallpaper Series
This was the newest batch of non fiery runes wallpaper, and the start to another series that HK made when he didn't make a Fiery Rune Wallpaper.
Anniversary Wallpapers
These wallpapers were for the anniversaries of Diablo 3, and the Fan Artists Community.
iPhone Wallpapers
These wallpapers were iPhone wallpapers that were not of the Fiery Runes Series.
The Untitled
These are wallpapers that didn't pertain to any one wallpaper series that HK worked on.
Sketchbook Series
This series was made for concept art that was just sketched artwork, and lined art.
Contest Artwork
These wallpaper and artwork HK made whenever there were contests from Diii.net.
Fan Art
This is a collection of fan art that Holyknight3000 had made over time.
Fan Classes
This was some of HK's works on various fan classes. As well as some of those classes skill trees and more.
The Untainted
This was a fan class that HK worked on to be a melee healer class that could when damaging enemies, heal the party and the player himself. Also the Untainted could be a caster as well as a ranged. With a very powerful and expensive ability the class could also tank for a short amount of time.
Related Links
- Holyknight3000 Diii.net user profile
- Holyknight3000's Deviant Art Page
- Holyknight3000's Twitter Page
- Diii.net Fan Creations Forum
- Diii.net Wallpaper Gallery
- The Fiery Zod
- The Fiery Zod on deviantART
- Diablo III Weekly Wallpaper
- Fan Art Watch
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- Fiery Runes Series
- Behind the Fiery Runes
- Diablo III: A Year in Wallpapers
Websites
This is a list of the websites HK posted his art on during 2008-2010:
(Websites in gray no longer work or are bot ridden)
- Diii.net - Diablo Fans - Diablo III Blog - Diablo 3 Community - D3 Fans
- D3 Gaming - Diablo 3 Armory - Diablo III Kore - Diablo-Source - Deviant Art
- Diablo 3 Forum - Diablo Core - Twitter
Forum Links
HK's complete forum post archive is here Forum Thread Archive.
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