Commission picked up at Comic-Con
By
Dark Ether,
Posted on: 2008-08-08 18:24 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
very very nice catch, congrats!
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So, me and the SO got married back in June
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Pfff. Shoulda held out for IOs.
(congrats! 
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What an extremely cool way to celebrate your marriage (and your 50s!) Very nifty and meaningful piece of art there, and a fabulous story. The characters are really well suited by his style. What a great 'wedding portrait' for a pair of gamers.
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that's a memorable way to mark both events, your marriage and hitting 50s. Gratz 
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(This comes with a little story, apologies if it's too long, but it kinda goes with the art)
So, me and the SO got married back in June, and about 6 weeks before the wedding I decided I wanted to do something nice for the both of us to mark the occasion and get artwork done of our CoH main characters we've been running since we started the game a year before.
But I didn't want to just have anyone do it, I wanted it to be meaningful to both of us. After some though I figured, what the heck, and sent off an email to someone who we'd met at past Comic-Cons asking what his prices were. I was, needless to say, pretty terrified that he would be out of my league, if he did them at all.
Two months and the wedding flew by with no response. I wasn't tied to it, and just figured he was busy or not interested. Hey, I tried right? Then, two weeks before SDCC he writes me back, sorry he missed the wedding but game to give it a go in the scant time before the show.
And I could even *just* make the top end of his commission scale. I was pumped, and all I had to do was keep my mouth shut for two weeks. It was rough.
We get to the show on the 25th, hit the NCSoft booth for our game swag, and then I managed to get us over to the target booth. He was super-cool abotu the whole deal, and the surprise on her face when he fished it out of his sketch book was awesome.
So, in the interest of sharing, I'd like to show off our mains (my BS/Regen scrapper and her Fire/Fire blaster) as depicted by Mage and Grendel creator Matt Wagner.
Bonus points: We finally hit 50 the week before! Couldn't have asked better than that.