The FANTASTIC 4: First Steps lives up to its namesake! Not only is it fantastic, it’s my new favorite Marvel movie so I obviously had to create some fan art to celebrate. 🚀
I love the characters, I love the cast, I love the timeless quality of it’s retrofuturist aesthetic, I love that the story has sharpened focus—both in message and in plot, and I love the soundtrack. (I think I’ve listened to it all the way through about 20 times this week.)
For years, Captain America: The First Avenger has been my favorite Marvel movie, but Fantastic 4 is so much more vibrant, playful, and fun while still being just as emotionally effective. 10/10 Marvel movie.
This poster art is a bit of a departure for me as rather than be a fully hand illustrated piece it’s a mix of design, illustration, and photo paint over. It took me a few days to put together rather than weeks like my more fully rendered work. That being said, a good bit of effort still went into this but I do want to make it very clear that far less drawing and painting is on display here compared to my usual posters. It was an exploration of techniques and a deliberate choice to let some of the photo references do the hard work for me.
If I had more time to give it I’d keep polishing it from here.
Go see the movie!
