Brooke Smart

Hi! My name is Brooke.

I started my artistic career as a fine artist, painting the beautiful people around me, but my style and life has changed so much since then.

I’m an illustrator, and I love being an illustrator. I love telling stories from my head, or stories from other people’s heads, or stories from history. I’ve always loved to read and my books are some of my greatest treasures. The opportunity has come to begin illustrating my own books and I couldn’t be happier. I love working with traditional media, especially with watercolor, gouache, and on occasion, acrylic paint. My work appears in children’s books, children’s magazines, newspapers, and on walls of buildings near and far.

I am divorced, but recently remarried. I’m so lucky to have my husband. He is kind, selfless, and shares my love for creating. He’s a part of much of my work and I’m grateful for his support. We have three children between the two of us and are living the sleepless, happy, busy, busy dream right now. I’ve truly stumbled into heaven with this new family of ours.

Some of my clients include Random House, Rise x Penguin Workshop, Viking, Greystone Kids, Abrams, Mindy Kaling, Little Tiger UK, Little Brown UK, Peachtree Publishing, The New York Times, Bravery Magazine, and Better Days 2020.

For inquiries regarding book illustration, please contact Teresa Kietlinski at Bookmark Literary at teresa@bookmarkliterary.com. For all other inquiries, or commissions, please contact me at brooke@brooke-smart.com.