From spooky to sweet: a look across our illustration desk
Not every drawing ends up in a children’s book. A quick tour of the character work, seasonal pieces and editorial doodles that come through the Librum illustration desk.
Not every illustration we draw lives inside a children’s book. A lot of the work that crosses the Librum desk is character art, seasonal pieces and editorial spots — small drawings with a big job: to give a project a face. Here’s a quick tour across the range.
Spooky, but never scary
The brief on a season of Halloween pieces was “fun, not frightening” — the kind of spooky a small child giggles at rather than hides from.
Characters with a pulse
Character work is its own discipline — a single drawing has to carry a whole personality. The range runs from the gloriously unimpressed to the sun-warm.
Editorial doodles
And then the loose, single-line doodles — the ones we use to give a page or a service a bit of warmth, like the figure keeping our Serbian-translation section company on the home page.
Different moods, one hand. If you have a book, a brand or a page that needs an illustration of its own, we draw them — or browse more in the portfolio.