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Book Illustration

Original, story-driven illustration for picture books, fiction interiors, covers, and non-fiction diagrams — art directed for your genre and delivered print-ready for KDP and IngramSpark.

What it is

A managed illustration service. We read your manuscript, build a visual style and character bible, then produce sketches, line art, and finished colour pieces in a fixed review cycle. Every piece is delivered at 300 DPI in CMYK for print and RGB for ebook, with correct bleed, trim, and spine allowances so your files pass printer review the first time. You own full commercial rights to the finished artwork.

Our process

  1. 1
    Brief & manuscript read

    We read the full text, agree age range, tone, page count, and trim size, then lock a shot list of every illustration needed.

  2. 2
    Style & character bible

    Two style directions plus a character sheet with poses, expressions, and a fixed colour palette so characters stay consistent across every page.

  3. 3
    Thumbnails & storyboard

    Rough black-and-white layouts for the whole book showing composition, text placement, and gutter safety before any colour work starts.

  4. 4
    Line art & revisions

    Approved thumbnails become clean line art. Two rounds of revisions per illustration are included at this stage — cheapest point to change anything.

  5. 5
    Colour, light & texture

    Final rendering: palette, lighting, and texture passes, plus continuity checks so props, clothing, and settings match page to page.

  6. 6
    Typesetting & print prep

    Art placed into the interior with your text, exported as a print PDF (300 DPI, CMYK, bleed and trim applied) and an ebook-optimised set.

  7. 7
    Delivery & handover

    Layered source files, flattened PNG/JPG, print PDF, and a full rights transfer, plus one free fix round after your printer's proof.

Recent Work

Samples from Book Illustration

Watercolour children's picture book spread of a fox in a red scarf standing on a log in a sunlit forest
Children's picture book spread — watercolour style, text-safe composition with gutter clearance.
Character design sheet showing a young girl explorer in three poses with expression studies and a colour palette
Character bible for a middle-grade adventure — poses, expressions, and locked palette.
Black and white cross-hatched ink illustration of a hooded ranger before a ruined stone gate with ravens
Fantasy interior chapter art — ink line work that prints cleanly in black-and-white paperback.
Flat vector infographic of a five-stage value creation funnel with icons and labels
Non-fiction diagram — brand-matched, legible at paperback size and in greyscale.