Rainbow Draws
September 2026

This month, we're featuring the work of Yufei Yang, a Shanghai-born, Liverpool-based illustrator whose delightfully gestural body of work has led her to collaborate with clients such as Apple, Condé Nast Traveler, and The Guardian.
Working under the name Rainbow Draws, Yufei takes cues from the cultural and decorative signatures of the places she visits, abstracting them into their simplest, most emotive forms. Her economic use of texture and punchy color palettes work hard to create joyful, expressive vignettes that feel grounded in real life whilst communicating a genuine delight in the unfamiliar.
Scroll on for an introduction to Yufei's process and playful selection of work.



First thing you ever got paid to draw?
2 editorial illustrations for a wine magazine. Love wine, so this was a good start!
Vector, raster or both?
Both. It really depends on what's needed for a project, but people make equally beautiful work in both formats - and many more.
What’s your creative superpower?
Seeing the fun and the beauty in everyday life!


Dream client?
Maybe Hermès, although it's so hard to pick!
True Grit tools you can’t live without?
The Monomania brush set, Lithotone and Infinite Pulp paper textures. Honestly everything is so beautiful and useful though.
EXPLORE YUFEI'S FAVORITE TRUE GRIT TOOLS HERE
Layers: organized or chaos?
Aim for organized, end with chaos (unless I have to share work files...)
Sketch on paper or straight to digital?
Sketch on paper almost always, although it depends what I'm working on.


Complete this sentence: Generative AI is _________.
Generative AI is not art. Maybe science, but no meaning in relation to human expression.
Last book you read?
An Undesirable Friend by Natsume Sōseki.
Last band/artist you saw live?








