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Excelsior In Space

Excelsior In Space

Medium
Digital & Editorial
Dimension
2272 x 2475 px
Date
December 2025
Project
The Fantastic Four: First Dreams
Description

Every invented world needs one object drawn carefully enough that you believe the rest of it. The Excelsior is mine. A swept silver hull with blue wingtips, engines lit orange, crossing the curve of the Earth with a small hard sun behind it and two planets holding their distance. I built it as a digital illustration so that it could be reused across the whole project rather than redrawn each time, and it later ran in the artbook beside its own specification panel. Part of The Fantastic Four: First Dreams.

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.
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The First Dreams artbook open flat to a spread headed From Explorers to Protectors, with two columns of text, captioned suit diagrams and the Excelsior illustration beside a technical data panel.
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The Fantastic Four: First Dreams

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Gouache portrait of Jack Kirby in blues and teals, hand resting at his cheek, against a ground patterned with four-pointed stars.
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Jack Kirby

March 2026
Gouache portrait of Stan Lee smiling in blues, in dark-framed glasses and a shirt patterned with circled number four motifs.
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Stan Lee

March 2026
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.
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The Baxter Building & The Excelsior in Perspective

December 2025
Alcohol marker, acrylic and coloured pencil still life of the Fantastic Four uniform, a blue suit with a circled four, a white glove in the sleeve, grey boots and a buckled belt, against cream with turquoise stars.
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Fantastic Costume

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Oil painting on canvas of an open hand held palm out with the thumb tucked, hand-lettered four three two one we have lift off, with the First Steps logo at lower right.
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‘Four’ The Stars

November 2025
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.
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Prepare 4 Launch

December 2025
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.
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NY Times Cover

December 2025
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.
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Look Up To My Heroes

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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.
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Four Fingers

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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.
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Excelsior In Space

December 2025
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.
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December 2025
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.
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First Dream

March 2026
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.
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Fantastic Four Flyers

October 2025
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.
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Happy 4-4 Day

April 2026
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.
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Message from Marvel's First Family

December 2025
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.
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The Fantastic Four: First Dreams Artbook

December 2025 - Ongoing
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.
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Stan Lee — A Hero Beyond All Superheroes

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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.
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Look Up To My Heroes

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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.
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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.
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Excelsior In Space

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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.
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44444444

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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.
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First Dream

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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.
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