Hello friend. I&#x27;m Tan Nguyen, an illustrator and oil painter in New York.

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.

Composite poster in forced perspective, a white-gloved hand reaching toward the camera past a portrait in a blue Fantastic Four suit, with towers, a rocket and a small robot.

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

An art project exploring childhood imagination and artistic identity through the visual language of Marvel's Fantastic Four. It brings graphic design, photography, illustration and cinematic composition together to tell my journey toward becoming an artist, lived out alongside my superheroes in New York City.

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Black Myth: Baba Yaga

Digital Splash Art | October 2026

Splash art for Black Myth: Baba Yaga, a game I imagined out of the old folktale. My Baba Yaga is a grieving mother who bargained with the devil for her son and was betrayed. She gives up her own life to destroy him, and the cycle of innocent deaths ends there.

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Project of the year

The Fantastic Four: First Dreams

The First Dreams artbook seen face on, a deep blue hardcover with the title the Fantastic 4 First Dreams in silver, the circled four at the right and four small character panels at the corners.

The Fantastic Four: First Dreams Artbook

Literature

The printed research paper laid out flat, the cover carrying a blue painted portrait of Stan Lee smiling in his glasses inside a gold keyline, with interior pages either side.

Stan Lee — A Hero Beyond All Superheroes

Literature

Graphite and coloured pencil presentation drawing of the Baxter Building and the Excelsior tower in perspective, with hand-lettered callouts and a circled number four mark.

The Baxter Building & The Excelsior in Perspective

Fine Art

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.

Excelsior In Space

Digital & Editorial

Retrofuturist vector illustration of a figure in a blue suit with gloved hands crossed, the Excelsior arcing overhead on an orange trail among planets and starbursts, inside an orange and blue border.

First Dream

Digital & Editorial

Jack Kirby

Fine Art

Stan Lee

Fine Art

Alcohol marker, acrylic and coloured pencil still life of the Fantastic Four uniform: blue suit with a circled four, a white glove in the sleeve, grey boots and a buckled belt, against cream with turquoise stars.

Fantastic Costume

Fine Art

‘Four’ The Stars

Fine Art

Prepare 4 Launch

Digital & Editorial

Mock magazine cover composite with a large serif masthead, a portrait in a blue Fantastic Four suit beside a futuristic tower and launch spires, and cover lines reading Fantastic Dreams.

NY Times Cover

Digital & Editorial

Look Up To My Heroes

Digital & Editorial

Composite poster in forced perspective, a white-gloved hand reaching toward the camera past a portrait in a blue suit, with towers, a rocket and a small robot saying hello.

Four Fingers

Digital & Editorial

Retrofuturist vector poster on cream, the numeral four repeated as nested rounded shapes in blue, cyan, orange and red receding to four small figures at the centre, with a monogram and Future Foundation lockup along the base.

44444444

Digital & Editorial

Four Fantastic Four First Steps flyers arranged in a two by two grid on cream, their shattered blue glass, orange rock and flame shards meeting in a single burst at the centre.

Fantastic Four Flyers

Digital & Editorial

Final frame of the animation, cream ground with pale teal atomic starbursts, a blue rocket trailing yellow, the circled Fantastic Four badge and the words Happy 4-4 Day.

Happy 4-4 Day

Motion Graphic

Animation frame with a scanline texture, four flat-shaded figures in Santa hats standing inside rounded orange, red and teal outlines that recede behind them on cream.

Message from Marvel's First Family

Motion Graphic

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MULTIMEDIA GALLERY

This portfolio contains a wide range of multidisciplinary approaches throughout my artistic journey.
Please start by selecting your most suitable medium and explore the work there.
Don’t forget to take a look at other mediums as well!

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.

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.

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.

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.