Tristan Tait

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I am a digital illustrator with over eight years of professional freelance experience, creating illustrations for more than thirty published children's books, trading cards, games, posters, merchandise, comics and band…

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I am a digital illustrator with over eight years of professional freelance experience, creating illustrations for more than thirty published children’s books, trading cards, games, posters, merchandise, comics and band album art.

My personal style blends bold, energetic colors with strong design shapes and composition, and a meticulous attention to detail. I adapt my approach to suit each project, which has allowed me to collaborate with clients such as Darryl McDaniels of Run DMC, Eddie Alcazar, Danny Elfman, Crayola, Imagine FX, Wacom ANZ, and many others.

  • Joined May 2026

Languages

  • EnglishFluent

Industry experience

  • Media & Entertainment
  • Education
  • Professional Services

Projects · 8

'Improve your Boss Designs' Art Workshop for ImagineFX Magazine

I was commissioned by Imagine FX magazine to create a workshop to be printed in issue 208 of their magazine. It was to go through the steps of designing a boss character for an indie video - outlining the processes involved in the conceptual stages before handover to an animator. I wrote and illustrated the 15 step guide, with conceptual sketches, finished art and then a key art piece to accompany the final work. The workshop was later reprinted and featured on the cover of the 'Imagine FX Annual Vol 6' #illustrator

  • Artist
  • Book Cover Designer
  • Character Designer
  • +4
White Lotus - Personal illustration work

This was a personal illustration piece, working on developing a new art style that I've been exploring. illustration #design #characterdesign #conceptart #illustrator #designer

  • Art Director
  • Artist
  • Book Cover Designer
  • +7

‘Mortimer Beast Hunter’ was a personal project of mine that I worked as an online interactive story, where readers would follow along reading a weekly chapter and then voting on an outcome that would steer the direction of the next part of the story. I wrote each chapter with accompanying illustrated pages, and readers with a paid subscription could add additional requests to their interaction - such as collecting and using items that they could see within the illustrations - for example if a knife were on the kitchen table, a reader could request to pick the knife up and add it to the inventory to potentially use in a later chapter.
The project became a full world building exercise, with concept art, character, prop and environment design, graphic design - including, layouts, logos and UI design.

Mortimer Beast Hunter

Mortimer Beast Hunter Logo Design

Mortimer Beast Hunter Character Design

Mortimer Beast Hunter Pose and Expression Exploration

Mortimer Beast Hunter Character Turnaround

Mortimer Beast Hunter Environment Design

Mortimer Beast Hunter Promo Card

Mortimer Beast Hunter Page Layout

Mortimer Beast Hunter Page Layout

Mortimer Beast Hunter - Personal Project
  • Art Director
  • Artist
  • Background Designer
  • +7

A personal project - Completely hand drawn with Photoshop using my Wacom Cintiq tablet - NO AI
Timelapse videos of the process can be found on my Instagram for those interested in checking out how I go about drawing something like this -Tristan.Tait

Chaos Terminator - Warhammer 40k Fanart

Chaos Terminator - Warhammer 40k Fanart
  • Artist
  • Book Cover Designer
  • Book Illustrator
  • +2

A personal project experimenting with art styles, combining my usual dynamic caricature style portraits with more of a japanese inspired ukiyo-e aesthetic. Hand drawn completely using Photoshop with my Wacom Cintiq.
NO AI
Gear 5 Luffy - One Piece Fanart

Gear 5 Luffy - One Piece Fanart
  • Artist
  • Character Designer
  • Concept Artist
  • +2

Illustrated 14 spreads and book cover for the children’s book ‘Darryl’s Dream’ by Darryl DMC McDaniels of Run DMC, published by Penguin Random House. The initial character designs and concepts I created were later used in a merchandise partnership with AMAZON, and then animated for the Nickelodeon kids show ‘What’s the Word’, featuring Young DMC.

Book cover and two interior spreads of the children's book Darryls Dream

'Darryl's Dream' - By Darryl DMC McDaniels Published by Penguin Randomhouse
  • Book Illustrator
  • Character Designer
  • Children’s Book Illustrator

Work experience· 7 roles

Guest Illustrator · CRAYOLAJan 2023 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr

Guest Illustrator for Creativity Week 2023.

Artist · Imagine FX MagazineJul 2021 – Oct 2021 · 4 mos

Published in three separate magazine issues, both online and in print. Published workshops on creating and designing characters for 2D Indie Games. Discussing process, iterations, turnarounds and move sets. Published sketchbook feature

Art Director Illustrator · MJF ProductionsOct 2019 – Dec 2023 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Full design and artwork for a soon to released card game comprising of logos, icons, assets, 52 unique card illustrations, box art and instruction booklet layout and design. Concept and designs for original characters Designing card templates Maintaining a consistent look and feel throughout the entire project

Illustratror · Kolex GG CollectablesApr 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 8 mos
Illustrator · FONTAINE PUBLISHING GROUPJan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 11 mos
Children's Book Illustrator · Mascot BooksJan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 11 mos
Official Artist · The Game Expo (AUS)Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 11 mos

Education

Bachelor of Multimedia (Animation & SFX) · Charles Sturt University2005 – 2008

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