My concept was birds within the Northwoods, and my focus was learning to better my illustration skills. I wanted to create original illustrations that focus on the build of common birds of the Northwoods and depict a organic stylistic approach from hand sketches to computer renderings.  A challenge I encountered throughout the design was the fact that I only had three colors to work with, red, yellow, and black. This challenge pushed me as a designer to play with color opacities to create shadow and textural qualities within my illustrations.  Though I did play with a more creative and new style approach to a normal playing deck, I decided after researching the importance of the traditional layout of the pips and suits that sticking with this format would work best throughout my designs and focus more on the organic structure of the birds. Additionally, the illustrations, traditional pips, and traditional suits match the colors of each individual card. This way the cards may be used to play any game the user chooses.