This is from the latest issue of Foreign Policy magazine. The art director is Bryan Erickson.
I meant to show sketches and the process and everything but my computer went kablooey a few weeks ago and i can't seem to locate the files on my new computer. They're here someplace. If only I could remember what I labeled them as. Anyway, this was a lot of fun, Bryan is great to work with.
I don't know much about poker, It's played with chips and cards is about the extent of my knowledge. I used the classic painting below as inspiration.