tran phan minh thu
Hi, I’m Thu! An illustrator, animator who makes editorial illustration, comics, animated gif and short animated films with
both traditional and digital mediums :)
illustrations 🖌️
printed b&w zine, 2025
A small zine with sketchbook pages and doodles about my time in the Netherlands, where I studied.
colored fiber pens on paper, 2022
This was an one-shot comic book that I did for a challenge on the internet. The challenge was to create a finished 24-pages comic book in 48 hours. I finished mine in 60 hours so it was not a complete success but it was a lot of fun.
The story is about an introductory tour in a factory manufacturing human that is run by ants.
graduation project, RMIT, Design Studies
acrylic on canvas, digital collage, 2021
acrylic on canvas, digital collage, 2021
Pareidolia is a mostly-wordless picture book about social anxiety, which is something that I struggled with for a long time. The reason I chose this topic is because I want confront and reflect upon my emotions rather than avoid them.
In the book, I created two main characters:
1, The Protagonist, who view themselves as a mess and filled with anxieou thoughts.
2, The Anxiety, an exaggerated representation of how the protagonist view others.
The book is about the realization that avoiding the anxious feeling will only make things worse.
Through the making of this book, I also explored different way of using material and combining analog process with digital. Some paintings are painted on canvas, scanned and draw digitally lines on top while some are digital collage from scanned texture.
sketches and exploration:
the full book:
In the book, I created two main characters:
1, The Protagonist, who view themselves as a mess and filled with anxieou thoughts.
2, The Anxiety, an exaggerated representation of how the protagonist view others.
The book is about the realization that avoiding the anxious feeling will only make things worse.
Through the making of this book, I also explored different way of using material and combining analog process with digital. Some paintings are painted on canvas, scanned and draw digitally lines on top while some are digital collage from scanned texture.
sketches and exploration:
the full book:
digital comics, 2025