Digital Illustration and Portraits

Paula Tabor is a freelance illustrator specializing in stylized Art Nouveau-inspired realism — bold, flat graphic style with clean lines and richly detailed portraiture. Her illustrations for the If You Were Me and Lived In… series have received 17 awards across three titles.

Prints and products available at Fine Art America and Teepublic. 

Children’s Book Illustration

What is Digital Art?

Every piece you see above is custom digital and original fine art, hand-drawn using a graphic stylus.  These are not AI-generated and are unlike any computer-filtered photo.  They are real artworks created stroke by stroke in a digital medium. Whether you’re looking for custom digital illustration for book covers, vibrant posters, unique home decor art, or digitally created portraits. Each image you see reflects hours of artistic skill and creative vision. Browse the collections and discover art that brings your space or project to life!

Decor Art: Beautiful Wall Art for Every Room

Transform your space with beautiful and often whimsical décor art that adds an elegant touch to your home. In addition, many pieces feature elegant borders that frame striking central images.  They draw you in from across the room. Then they reward closer inspection with delightful details that make you smile!

These versatile works are perfect as posters and wall art prints that will grace any space in your home. Whether you’re looking for home bar decor, kitchen wall art, sophisticated dining room pieces, or cozy bedroom prints. You’ll find artwork that fits your style and personality.

But these designs aren’t just for your walls! For example, Fine Art America will print works on throw pillows, shower curtains, duvet covers, and tote bags.  You can have them printed on beach towels, bath towels, coffee mugs, fleece blankets, and tapestries. In addition, you can find them as greeting cards, t-shirts, yoga mats, spiral notebooks, zip pouches, and jigsaw puzzles. Every product features the same high-quality digital art reproduction.  This will allow you to coordinate your entire space with designs you love.

Award-Winning Book Illustration

Paula Tabor isn’t just a decorative artist.  She’s an award-winning book illustrator with a proven track record. In the Award-Winning Book Illustration section, you can see images from the five books she’s illustrated.  These are for elementary and middle-grade educational non-fiction and fiction authors. Three of these books have won an impressive 17 awards!  They showcase the power of compelling illustration to enhance storytelling.

But Paula doesn’t confine herself to children’s books alone. Her illustration skills span all genres and age ranges.

Custom Book Covers That Stand Out

Many of the images in the Book Covers, Posters, and Decor Art sections were originally designed as sample cover art. They were created not just for literary publishers.  Independent authors seeking eye-catching book covers will love these designs. In today’s competitive publishing market, they will find a wealth of professional, custom book cover options.  That can make the difference between a browser becoming a buyer.

Whether you’re a traditional publisher, an indie author, or somewhere in between, let’s collaborate! Hit the Contact page to tell all about your book cover project today.  We can discuss how to make your book stand out on crowded shelves and online marketplaces. Every cover is custom-designed to capture your book’s unique story and appeal to your target readers.

Digitally Created Portraits: The Decades Series and Beyond

The Digitally Created Portraits section showcases Paula’s exclusive Decades Portrait Series.  These are a celebrity portrait collection spanning six decades of cultural icons. The series includes 1970s Aretha Franklin, 1980s David Bowie, and 1990s Milla Jovovich.  More current stars include 2000s Will Smith, 2010s Zoe Saldana, and modern Daniel Dae Kim.  Each star is depicted in a brilliant, stylized form.

These artworks capture their respective eras with meticulous hand-drawn detail. Skin tones are constructed from carefully arranged shapes of flat colors, creating depth and dimension. Each individual hair strand is crafted in graceful curves and arcs. This creates a unique signature style that sets this celebrity art apart from photo-realistic approaches. Soft pastel backgrounds add contemporary sophistication to any interior.

However, Paula’s signature style isn’t the only option available. Digital art can authentically mimic any traditional media. From oil paint to watercolor, pen and ink to graphite pencil. In the portrait gallery, you’ll see examples in all these styles, demonstrating the versatility of digital illustration.

In addition, portraits aren’t limited to celebrities. You’ll also find examples of custom book cover portrait art and memorial portraits.  They are thoughtful, personalized artworks created to honor loved ones.  Each face can come from an individual photo.  As long as the photographs are of good resolution and clear quality, any composition of multiple photos is possible.

Custom Digital Portrait Commission Pricing: A single-face custom portrait in any style is just $300 with a good reference photograph and half down to begin. In addition, simpler styles like pencil sketches or ink drawings cost even less! Every portrait is hand-drawn specifically for you.

Pet Portraits: Celebrating Our Animal Companions

Additionally, portraits aren’t just for people anymore! From the Digitally Created Portraits page, follow the link to the Pet Portrait section.  Regardless of whether you’re a cat, dog, lizard, or bird person, you’ll discover beautiful digitally created art.  Works featuring dogs, cats, and even horses. These custom pet portraits are a particularly wonderful way to celebrate and remember our fuzzy, furry, or equine friends.

Pet portrait art makes undeniablly thoughtful gifts for animal lovers. They create lasting memories of beloved companions long after they have crossed the rainbow bridge. You may want a realistic color portrait that captures every whisker and gleam in their eye.  Or perhaps a more stylized interpretation would be a better fit to display in your home.  Either way, digital art offers undeniably unlimited possibilities.

Pet Portrait Pricing: Realistic color head portraits of your pet are only $200! Send me your best photos and ideas for your custom pet portrait today.  Let’s create something you’ll treasure!