Custom Illustration Services
Original artwork built for a specific story, brand, or product, not something pulled from a stock library that a dozen other businesses are using too.
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Business FirmsWhat Do Illustration Design Services Include?
Illustration design covers original artwork created for a specific purpose: a book, an editorial piece, a product, or a brand.
It's different from graphic design, which focuses on layout and composition, and different from a logo, which is a specific brand mark rather than a broader piece of artwork. A digital illustrator can work across styles, from realistic to stylized, depending on what the project actually needs.
What's Included
Book Illustrations
Interior and cover illustration work built around the actual story, not a generic stock scene.
Character Illustration
Original characters designed with enough consistency to be reused across a book, brand, or product line.
Editorial Illustration
Artwork built to support a specific article, publication, or piece of content, not a stand-alone decoration.
Product Illustration
Illustrated product visuals when a photograph isn't the right fit, or when a product needs an illustrated style to stand out.
Custom Artwork
Original pieces built around a specific brief, whether that's for print, digital, or brand use.
Book & Editorial Illustration
A significant part of what we do is illustration for authors and publishers: book illustrators working on interior artwork, cover concepts, and character consistency across a full manuscript. Whether it's a single cover illustration or a fully illustrated children's book, the work gets scoped around the actual manuscript, not a generic style applied without reading it.
- Book Covers
- Interior Illustrations
- Character Design
- Children's Book Illustration
- Editorial Artwork
Recent Illustration Work
Illustration samples across book, editorial, character, and product work are being compiled for this section. In the meantime, the full portfolio covers work across every service.
How Much Do Illustration Services Cost?
It depends on the complexity of the piece, the style, and how many illustrations the project needs. A single editorial illustration is a different scope than a fully illustrated book with dozens of interior pieces and consistent characters throughout. We'll walk through your actual project before quoting anything.
What affects the investment
- Number of Illustrations
- Style Complexity
- Character Consistency Needs
- Usage Rights
- Timeline
If your project is small enough that a simpler scope genuinely covers it, we'll say so instead of quoting for more than you need.
Get an Illustration QuoteCustom Illustration vs Stock Art
Stock art is fast and cheap, and it's also being used by other businesses and publications at the same time. Custom illustration takes longer but produces something built specifically for your story, brand, or product, with usage rights that are actually yours.
How We Create Your Illustrations
- 01
Discovery
We learn the project, the story or brand behind it, and the style that actually fits.
- 02
Concept Sketches
Initial rough concepts before any final artwork begins.
- 03
Illustration Development
The chosen direction gets developed into finished artwork.
- 04
Revisions
Structured feedback rounds to refine the details.
- 05
Final Delivery
Every file format you need, with clear usage rights included.
- 01
Discovery
We learn the project, the story or brand behind it, and the style that actually fits.
- 02
Concept Sketches
Initial rough concepts before any final artwork begins.
- 03
Illustration Development
The chosen direction gets developed into finished artwork.
- 04
Revisions
Structured feedback rounds to refine the details.
- 05
Final Delivery
Every file format you need, with clear usage rights included.
Questions, Answered.
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It depends on the number of illustrations, style complexity, and whether character consistency is needed across multiple pieces. We'll scope it based on your actual project.
Our illustration work is handled in-house, not outsourced to freelance illustrators, so the same team scoping your project is the one creating the artwork.
Yes. We can work on an ongoing basis for authors or publishers with multiple projects, keeping character and style consistency across the series.
Both. Product illustration is part of what we offer, alongside book, editorial, and character illustration work.
This depends on the project. We scope the style, from realistic to stylized, around what actually fits the story, brand, or product rather than applying one house style to everything.
Usage rights get defined upfront as part of the project scope, so there's no ambiguity about what you can do with the final artwork.
Still have questions?
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Have a Story or Brand That Needs Original Artwork?
Tell us about your project. If custom illustration is the right fit, we'll quote it. If something simpler covers it, we'll say so.
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