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What shall we create today?

My name is Tan, a Multimedia Artist based in New York. I work across fine art, illustration, photography, and motion, and I love collaborating on anything that calls for creativity.
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HIGHLIGHTS

Vietnamese Spirit · Long Lac Heart Reunion

Oil on canvas | April 2026

A first-year final piece rooted in Vietnamese identity — the painting weaves together the Áo dài, a Lý-Trần dynasty dragon, and the ancient Lạc bird into a single canvas. It began as a school project and became a love letter to a culture I carry everywhere I go.

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The Fantastic Four: First Dream Artbook

Publication Design | december 2025

The Fantastic Four: First Dreams is a fan-art publication celebrating Marvel's First Family through my perspective as a designer. Combining historical research, retrofuturist aesthetics, and original poster designs, this book reflects my passion for editorial design and typography, exploring optimism and the feeling of living alongside superheroes in New York City.

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Composite poster of a torso in a blue Fantastic Four suit with arms crossed over a city skyline, lettered PREPARE and LAUNCH beside the circled four, with the First Dreams lockup below.

A man holding a up four fingers in a Fantastic Four suit

The finished NY Times Cover composite, the figure in the blue Fantastic Four suit with a hand at the chin, graded into one scene with the tower, rocket and flying car.

Composite poster of a young man in a knitted four jumper looking upward through blue confetti on a New York street, crowds holding hand-painted good luck and we love Fantastic Four signs.

The Fantastic Four: First Dreams

Special Project | Late 2025 - Ongoing

A multimedia art project exploring childhood imagination and artistic identity through the visual language of Marvel's Fantastic Four. Combining graphic design, photography, illustration, and cinematic composition — this is my journey toward becoming an artist, lived out alongside my superheroes in New York City.

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MULTIMEDIA GALLERY

This portfolio contains a wide range of multidisciplinary appoarch throughout my artistic journey.
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Special Project

I create unified conceptual systems that execute a single narrative theme across multiple disciplines simultaneously. Combining structural painting, character design layouts, digital composites, and copywriting, I construct deep visual experiences that explore complex personal and cultural ideas.

Fine Art

Trained in human anatomy, value relationships, and traditional materials at SVA, I take on detailed fine art commissions and narrative oil portraits.

The dragon panel from Vietnamese Spirit, a crimson Ly-Tran dynasty dragon with a blue and gold mane reaching for a gold orb.

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Digital & Editorial

I produce editorial, commercial, and pictorial illustrations that work equally well on screen and in print — combining digital precision with traditional composition instincts.

Digital illustration of the Excelsior spacecraft, a swept silver craft with blue wingtips firing orange engine trails above the curve of Earth, stars and distant planets behind.

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Literature

I write the stories behind the work: narrative backstories, mythologies, and artist statements that give each piece a literary and philosophical layer, so viewers leave with more than just an image.

Cover of the Stan Lee research paper, a blue painted portrait of Stan Lee smiling in his dark-framed glasses inside a gold keyline.

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Photography

From technical studio setups and off-camera lighting to post-production and model direction, I bring a full production eye to every shoot.

Close photograph of a single daisy on a tall hairy stem, white petals around a yellow centre, against deep green grass thrown out of focus.

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Motion Graphic

I bring my illustrations to life through After Effects, Lottie, and Rive — turning static work into animated moments built for social media and digital display.

Finished Young Man With Sunflower, the oil self-portrait in glasses on a red ground with a glowing sunflower tucked behind the ear and two monarch butterflies lifting away from it.

First stage of Young Man With Sunflower, the oil self-portrait blocked in flat against a dusty pink ground, before the glasses, the sunflower and the butterflies.

Raw

Retouched & Graded

Plate

Composite

Under-painting

Finished

Young Man With Sunflower

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Fine Art

Finished Kyle's Portrait, the young man with vivid blue hair shading his eyes in a gold garment on a dark ground, a teal square, red circle and yellow triangle at his shoulder.

First stage of Kyle's Portrait, the figure painted in browns on a gold ground with one hand raised into the hair, before the blue hair and the coloured shapes.

Raw

Retouched & Graded

Plate

Composite

Under-painting

Finished

Kyle's Portrait

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Fine Art

The finished NY Times Cover composite, the figure in the blue Fantastic Four suit with a hand at the chin, graded into one scene with the tower, rocket and flying car.

The NY Times Cover composite before colour matching, the figure in the blue Fantastic Four suit cut out against flat grey with the tower, rocket and flying car placed but not yet graded.

Raw

Retouched & Graded

Plate

Composite

Under-painting

Finished

NY Times Cover

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Digital & Editorial

Finished The Flower Crown On Sister's Hair, the girl in a crown of daisies, roses and a sunflower on a warm ground with a butterfly at her shoulder.

First stage of The Flower Crown On Sister's Hair, the child's head blocked in loosely in oil against a pale turquoise ground, long before the crown.

Raw

Retouched & Graded

Plate

Composite

Under-painting

Finished

The Flower Crown on Sister's Hair

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Fine Art

post-production

before/after

Half of my craft begins after the shutter clicks or the paint dries. Drag the handle to sweep between the raw state and the final piece, across photo, digital, and fine art.

Get To Know My Process Of Making Meaningful Work

BEHIND THE CANVAS

Every piece I make follows the same four-stage process from research and rough sketches all the way through to final rendering and delivery.
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stage i

Ideation Research Mindmap

I initiate a project by conducting conceptual research, organizing reference images, swatches, and structuring narrative ideas to build a solid cultural or stylistic foundation.

stage ii

Sketching Composition Color

Second, I transition into loose anatomical drawing, linear sketching, and digital grayscale then color experimenting to establish grid hierarchies, focal points, and lighting layouts.

stage iii

Material Transferring Rendering

I bring my drafted compositions to life by transferring it into physical canvas setups or building high-resolution digital layers to resolve form, values, and organic textures.

stage iv

Polishment Curation Publication

Finally, I apply the final chromatic and color-shifting, typographic layouts, and structural finishes to format the completed work for high-impact print editions, web layouts, or gallery displays.