The Rainbow Stories

Character Design

Hand-drawn character design for children’s books – full casts, turnarounds and expression sheets for readers aged 2 to 12. Every character here was drawn for a real book, by hand, with no AI.

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Character design for a children’s book showing a round yellow lemon character with a smiling face
Character design for a children’s book showing a girl with plaits in a pink dress standing on the grass
Character design for a children’s book showing a boy in dungarees sitting on a tyre surrounded by chicks
Character design for a children’s book showing a girl in a teal top running with a toy bird in her hand
Character design for a children’s book showing Poodle Sue, a fluffy white poodle in a blue collar
Character sheet for a children’s book showing a terrier in round glasses from several angles, labelled Blue mom
Character design for a children’s book showing a brown Yorkshire terrier wearing round glasses and a red collar
Character sheet for a children’s book showing a pale blue Yorkiepoo with bows, drawn from several angles
Character design for a children’s book showing a small girl in pink beside a taller girl in an orange jumper
Character design for a children’s book showing Rozi, a satellite robot, and Filip, a small box robot on wheels
Character expression sheet for a children’s book showing a girl in a gold crown in a dozen poses
Children’s book illustration of a wide-eyed girl in a yellow headband pressing her hands against a windowpane
Character design for a children’s book showing a girl in a gold crown, orange top and green shorts
Character design for a children’s book showing a girl with curly blonde hair holding a posy of flowers
Character design for a children’s book showing a girl with big curly hair, round glasses and green dungarees
Character design sheet for a children’s book showing a girl with plaits in blue dungarees from three views
Children’s book illustration of a girl examining a leaf through a magnifying glass
Children’s book illustration of a family of six standing among flowers beneath the words La la la, it’s Thursday
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Want work like this for your book?Hand-drawn by a small studio, never AI, and quoted per book rather than per hour. Tell us about the manuscript and we will come back with a figure.
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