{"id":364,"date":"2006-08-11T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=364"},"modified":"2006-08-11T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T23:09:00","slug":"2006-08-11-illustration-friday-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/2006-08-11-illustration-friday-play\/","title":{"rendered":"2006-08-11 Illustration Friday — Play"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2006-08-11 Illustration Friday — Play<\/a>
Originally uploaded by royblumenthal<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n

This week’s Illustration Friday<\/a> topic is ‘Play’.<\/p>\n

I searched stock.xchng<\/a> for ‘poker’ and ‘cards’, and found two reference images which I combined in CorelDraw. One was A good poker hand for me<\/a> by MarkB1000<\/a>, and the other was The Winning Hand<\/a> by Cjcj<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I opted for a compressed middle-ground, not caring too much whether or not the perspective was right. I wanted the drama of the cards on the vertical and horizontal thirds, with a diagonal stress set up by the speech bubble, leading your eye to the guy’s look of resigned desperation.<\/p>\n

I like the story in this pic…<\/p>\n

The guy in the foreground is winning big. And he’s slow-playing to dishearten his opponent.<\/p>\n

The opponent is down to his last chips.<\/p>\n

And our foreground fellow has a TEN-KING suited, which is a decent opening hand in Texas Hold-Em. But he’s pretending to take his time, pretending in this hand that he’s NOT playing solidly.<\/p>\n

And his opponent KNOWS he’s being bluffed. He KNOWS the guy’s solid. And that he’s going to lose. He just wants the night to end.<\/p>\n

This painting was made using ArtRage 2.11<\/a> on my Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n

Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2006-08-11 Illustration Friday — PlayOriginally uploaded by royblumenthal. This week’s Illustration Friday topic is ‘Play’. I searched stock.xchng for ‘poker’ and ‘cards’, and found two reference images which I combined in CorelDraw. One was A good poker hand for me …<\/p>\n

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