Friday, October 7, 2011

COVERED! Fantastic Four 51



I finally got around to working on a submission for the fantastic COVERED blog, where artists do their own cover versions of comic book covers.

Click HERE to see the final Feltem cover-version of Jack Kirby's cover for Fantastic Four #51.

Below you'll find a few close-up views in all their fuzzy goodness.























Here's Sue Storm. Yes, I'm aware of the blow-up doll resemblance. It wasn't intentional.
















And the lighting leaves a bit to be desired, but here's the final completed real thing:




















Er... No pun intended.
Posted by dcmackinlay at 8:08 PM

4 comments:

  1. AlanOctober 20, 2011 at 3:39 PM

    I have to know how you do this. Do you have a "how to" page or more info anywhere?

    Beautiful work!

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  2. dcmackinlayOctober 20, 2011 at 4:41 PM

    Thanks for the comment, Alan. It's done with Needle Felting - You basically use barbed needles to stab at wool fibre and amazingly, it forces the wool to link together into something solid.

    I haven't done a how-to of my own yet, but I did post a video of another needle-felter showing her process, here:
    http://when2feltem.blogspot.com/2011/04/moxie-shows-you-how-to.html

    Hope that helps!

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  3. Troy LittleOctober 21, 2011 at 5:03 AM

    Awesome, I'm totally going to do this cover thing!

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  4. FrostOctober 21, 2011 at 12:39 PM

    Pure brilliance!

    When I first saw this on Covered, I thought the text and The Thing had been fashioned cunningly out of Cheez Curls.

    Then I took a closer look and realized it was wool ingeniously sculpted and teased. That is truly inspired. I admire and applaud the tilt of your mind.

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