Sarah Gray

A cozy, rounded wooden desk is covered in neatly arranged illustration tools: a tablet with a stylus showing a half-finished digital painting of a cheerful dragon reading a book, a sketchbook open to thumbnail storyboards, and jars of oversized, cartoonish paintbrushes with colorful bristles. The environment is a bright, playful studio corner with curvy bookshelves holding rows of children’s books, each spine decorated with tiny digital-art icons of animals and magical objects. Warm, indirect sunlight filters through a window with circular panes, creating soft highlights and bubbly shadows. The composition is framed using the rule of thirds from a gentle three-quarter angle, with sharp focus on the tablet and sketchbook. The mood is energetic, optimistic, and creative, emphasizing the process behind children’s book illustration.

My Portfolio

A collection of Sarah Gray’s children’s book illustrations. From characters to landscapes, this gallery highlights process-ready art and finished spreads.

Illustration Services

A whimsical digital-art landscape stretches across a canvas pinned to a rounded corkboard: rolling hills in candy pastels, a lollipop forest with spiraling trunks, and a friendly castle with soft, puff-like towers. Beneath the canvas, sticky notes in bright colors show miniature doodles of alternative character designs and playful color swatches. The setting is a tidy, imaginative workspace wall, with curling paper banners that read chapter titles in bold, childlike lettering. Gentle, golden-hour light from the side bathes the scene, casting long, soft-edged shadows and bringing out the saturated hues. The composition is front-facing and centered, with slight vignetting around the edges to focus attention on the main illustration. The atmosphere feels playful, exploratory, and story-driven, like stepping into the planning board for a vibrant children’s picture book world.

Character design, story spreads, and cover art crafted for children’s books.

A vibrant hardcover children’s picture book lies open on a rounded, sky-blue tabletop, its pages filled edge-to-edge with playful digital-art illustrations of talking forest animals, oversized mushrooms, and candy-colored trees. Around the book, scattered colored pencils, paint tubes, and a chunky paint palette are rendered as soft, rounded shapes in bright primary and pastel hues. Soft, diffused daylight glows from an unseen window, creating gentle reflections on the glossy pages and casting pillowy shadows. The composition is a slightly elevated angle with a shallow depth of field, emphasizing the book’s detailed artwork while the background melts into a whimsical bokeh of floating stars and doodles. The mood is joyful, imaginative, and inviting, perfectly capturing the feel of a children’s illustration portfolio cover.

Projects include style exploration, color palettes, and tight art direction.

A stack of rounded-corner art prints fans out across a lemon-yellow surface, each print featuring a different whimsical digital-art scene: a city of stacked teacup houses, a cloud-shaped library floating in the sky, and a garden of gigantic smiling flowers. The prints overlap playfully, creating a dynamic, energetic layout with bright colors and soft, velvety textures. In the background, abstract shapes—stars, squiggles, and hearts—float in a softly blurred gradient from coral to turquoise. Soft studio lighting from above creates subtle highlights on the semi-gloss paper and adds depth with gentle, curved shadows beneath each print. The camera angle is a top-down bird’s eye view, emphasizing the variety of illustrations. The mood is lively and celebratory, showcasing the range of a children’s book illustrator’s portfolio in a single, engaging composition.

Process & Timeline

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A cozy, rounded wooden desk is covered in neatly arranged illustration tools: a tablet with a stylus showing a half-finished digital painting of a cheerful dragon reading a book, a sketchbook open to thumbnail storyboards, and jars of oversized, cartoonish paintbrushes with colorful bristles. The environment is a bright, playful studio corner with curvy bookshelves holding rows of children’s books, each spine decorated with tiny digital-art icons of animals and magical objects. Warm, indirect sunlight filters through a window with circular panes, creating soft highlights and bubbly shadows. The composition is framed using the rule of thirds from a gentle three-quarter angle, with sharp focus on the tablet and sketchbook. The mood is energetic, optimistic, and creative, emphasizing the process behind children’s book illustration.