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.
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‘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.
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

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
Illustrated 13 spreads and cover design for the children’s book ‘The Lonely Little Fart’ Published by Mascot Books
Illustration of 16 spreads and cover design for the children’s books ‘Listen up Buttercup’, published by Mascot Books
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.
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