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A portfolio proves an illustrator can draw someone else's characters. It doesn't tell you whether they can draw yours. So describe your main character, and we'll send back one custom sketch within 48 hours — free, no card details, no obligation.
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Free offers usually hide a catch. Here's ours in full, so you can decide in ten seconds whether it's worth a minute of your time.
Clean line art of your character, drawn from your description by a professional illustrator — not a template, not AI, not a portfolio piece with the name swapped.
If the style you picked isn't the strongest fit for your age group or story, we'll say so and explain why — even when that means recommending something cheaper.
It's a concept sketch, deliberately. Line art is where character design is actually decided — colour comes after the shape and expression are right.
The sketch is for evaluating fit, so you can't publish it as-is. Full copyright transfers on any paid project — and your character design carries straight over.
One paragraph is plenty. Species or age, personality, clothing, anything distinctive.
A real illustrator reads your description and sketches the character in your chosen style.
High-resolution image by email, plus a short note on what would work well for your book.
If it fits, reply and we quote the full book. If not, keep the sketch — no follow-up.
A full picture book costs several hundred dollars and takes six to eight weeks. If the style turns out wrong for your story, you've lost both — and starting over with a different illustrator means paying twice. Most authors try to de-risk that with a discovery call, but a call only tells you whether someone is pleasant to talk to. It tells you nothing about whether they can draw your character.
Every illustrator's portfolio is their best work, for characters that suited them. What you actually need to know is narrower: can this person draw my character, in the style I want, for my reader's age? That's a two-day question, not a two-week one — so we just answer it directly instead of asking you to take it on faith.
We're not pretending this is charity. A sketch takes an illustrator an hour or two, and the authors who come back after seeing one are far more certain about what they want — which makes the whole project run better. The five-per-week limit is real: each sketch is drawn by hand, so we cap it at what we can do properly without slowing paid work.
Roughly a third of the authors who request a sketch don't go ahead, and that's fine. They've saved several hundred dollars and a few weeks by finding out early. We'd rather that than take on a project where the author was never quite sure. If a different style would serve your book better, compare all seven styles here — the sketch note will usually point you there anyway.
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★★★★★"Amazing artistic talent, truly went above and beyond when I asked for several revisions as the details were very specific. Would recommend. 11/10!"
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One character. One sketch. No payment details, no obligation, no follow-up if it isn't a fit.