Marvel Comics Superhero Mural Optical Illusion

15 comments March 17, 2008 by Vurdlak

What you see below is the portrait of Marvel Comic's superhero, The Thing. I believe he is one of the Fantastic Four. This has to be one of the best examples of trompe l’oeil I’ve ever seen. The mural was drawn by Justen Ladda in 1981, at PS 37 in the Bronx - New York. If you jump inside the article, you can see more examples of Justen's work, along with “Side View” photos of The Thing and others to see how they were done. In my opinion this is truly awesome. I imagine a projector was used and the spots were filled in, which isn’t exactly easy, but probably easier than manually figuring out what paint goes where. Some guys, like the sidewalk chalk guy, seem to do it from scratch, which is definitely talented!

















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  1. Anonymous Kay  

    i love the top one...they all look so cool!

  2. Blogger Screaming Doubles  

    i want to know how to do those...
    seriously
    ive seen a whole bunch of them all over this site... and they are all incredible.

    Kay has the right idea

  3. Anonymous Anna  

    They are awesome!! I love the one with the circle, it's amazing!

  4. Blogger Harry  

    Some people can do it with extreme patience and incredible talent. But for the rest of us mere mortals, if you want to have a crack at it then you need to get hold of a projector and project the image onto whatever you're painting onto from where the final view point will be. Then just trace over the lines!
    Awesome site, awesome page today. Keep up the good work!!

  5. Anonymous Lumikinos  

    I love this kind of illusions! It's really nice start for a day!

  6. Anonymous Anonymous  

    I love them!
    Keep it going!
    <33333

  7. Anonymous Pedro  

    AWESOME

  8. Anonymous shannon  

    its pretty sweet!

  9. Anonymous stoop  

    i'm trying to get my head around the first one but i think my brain is will break :( the others seem to be easier to to see whats going on

    i reckon it's the pesky chairs that are confusing me!!

    great illusions today :)

  10. Anonymous Anonymous  

    Dude... sweet

  11. Blogger Andreas  

    the third is my favorite! great work.

  12. Blogger Rachel  

    Oh wow, these are amazing! The top one is so COOL!!!
    And I really like the one of the two figures looking in a mirror, I want to do something like that in my house.

  13. Anonymous Anonymous  

    wow..

  14. Anonymous Kevin  

    kinda cool....I'm sure I couldn't do that....nor would I have any need to. But it is better than some others I have seen.

  15. Anonymous Anonymous  

    Awesome I like the first one best the fly one was cool too



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