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PAX Prime Nicol Bolas

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So Magic gave out the majority of the stuff in this year's general swag bag, and one of the things included was a Magic: The Gathering coloring book. And inside the coloring book was a loose sheet with two of the included images printed out for easy turn-in for a coloring contest they were having. They also supplied Magic crayons, with appropriate names even, so they really had us covered.
I ended up coloring Nicol Bolas during some downtime Saturday night since my group was playing a 4-player game and I was the fifth; I really didn't have much interest in the game anyway since I didn't catch it from the start.

It's been ages since I colored anything with crayons, even more so since I tried to do serious, real coloring with them, but I really tried with this one. I ended up feeling kind of like I was using waxy watercolor, with all the necessary layering and use of different base colors to trick the eye into seeing a wholly different color.

I made sure to turn it in the next day before the deadline, and maybe half an hour later I got an email on my phone saying I'd been chosen as a winner! I totally wasn't expecting it, since in most contests I go in assuming there'll be one or two people who'll just blow everyone else away and make my entry look like a waste of time. They actually had 9 winners for each image, and they were hung up nicely on the inside of the Magic booth.
The email came with a code for a Special Edition of a new Magic game on Steam, but also said if I went by the booth and validated my email I'd get a bunch more stuff. So I went by with my friend and I got a ton of cool things! I got a duel deck of cards in a shiny box, Nicol Bolas was the theme or leader or whatever of one of them, a Jace Beleren card that the guy made sure to tell me was apparently rare or something, and a shirt with a PAX-exclusive image that was only given to the winners. It's huge on me but it's cool that it's so special. Hell, I don't even play Magic but I plan on keeping all the stuff just 'cuz I won it and that makes it even cooler to me.

My friend did one, too, but his was uh...very much Penny Arcade themed, and thus wasn't even hung up with the other entries the next day.
Image size
2127x2584px 5.78 MB
Make
FUJIFILM
Model
FinePix Z10fd
Shutter Speed
1/69 second
Aperture
F/3.7
Focal Length
6 mm
ISO Speed
200
Date Taken
Sep 2, 2012, 3:34:30 PM
Sensor Size
3mm
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MowenDesigns's avatar
What a fun contest, grats on winning! I'm jealous. D: