Who is the River Queen?
The River Queen is a piece that I got inspired to create from my friend’s fiance who continuously schools us at Texas Hold’em. My intent was to make her race ambiguous but to keep her as relative to her inspiration as possible.

Medium and method of creativity
As usual I took a trip to the local Barnes and Nobles with the sketchbook in tow and sketched the happy lady with her hand raised. Once I had the image together, I took her home and scanned her then found a poker table online for inspiration. The table was drawn and scanned similar to the lady and the method I used to make them vector was to trace the lines first using the pen tool and connect the points to make shapes. The River Queen is 100% comprised of shapes no lines, in order to make the increase and decrease of her size clean without compromise. It is the same methodology I use for logos.

The River Queen can be downloaded at the following links:

- IstockPhoto – Stock vector | File #: 10354380
- Dreamstime – ID: 10637614