Coby Zutt is a New Zealand-based illustrator and visual storyteller whose practice revolves around character creation and imagined universes. Working across digital illustration, graphic design, chalk, and painting, Coby brings to life figures that merge bold stylization with textured, tactile expression. Influenced by street culture, underground fashion, and the aesthetics of animation, these characters embody both playful exaggeration and darker undertones.
For Coby, character design is a narrative act: each figure exists as part of a broader, surreal world where themes of identity, rebellion, and belonging unfold. The work is not only about the image itself, but the suggestion of stories and encounters that invite viewers into strange yet familiar spaces.