Just Amazing… Very Nice Collection.

Really neat! Love the comparisons.

wow thats so cool, I saw this first time.

Cool, but some of the little kid ones are obviously not drawn by children. the faces on some have 3-dimensional features that a toddlers mind could not articulate on paper with a drawing.

Wow, you were a great artist when you were young. What happened? LOL Kidding. Very inspiring work.

it is very good idea and the turned is very good and amzing

So cool these draws!

great stuff! -to anon- you must be confused…

Why are all the super heroes so thin, like super models..

brilliant work…….jus awesome……hats off to u and children who helped u with it……still speechless!!

At least Kimberly is a better speller than you!

to first Anon – how are any of the children’s drawing *not* children’s drawings?

not to mention that you’re wrong… toddler’s CAN have an idea of dimensionality … although i didn’t really see any dimensionality (3D kind) in any of the toddler drawings… were you thinking that the one’s made by an adult artist were made by children?
maybe next time read the caption? =]

I like the childrens’ drawings much better. The way he colours them seems to alter the innocence of how child creates a picture. Kids draw the way they do because it is what they are capable of at their age and they believe they have accurately depicted their subject. His renderings seem rather frightening, though his work is still very interesting and I appreciate how he worked with what he saw in the child’s drawing and gave it depth. Its cool but slightly uncomfortable as though looking at a crazy dream or odd night mare.

This exploitation of child labor has to be stopped!

What a great way to get inspired!!

Pure sense and brilliant works. thanks

To the silly Anon above…many of the kids were 7. That is hardly a “toddler”. None of these drawings are beyond what even a mildly talented 7 year old could draw.

Love the comparisons, great stuff!

This is interesting, however, the fact that the artist took a somewhat disturbing angle to the drawings turns me off. Adults often have a way to mar the creativity and innocence of a child’s art.

Joanne – I find it odd you call children ‘mini-artists’….seems to take something away from what they create. In fact, I would say they in some way more pure than adult artists.

Hanky got a Spanky!! Hanky looks like he’s got two spankys… That child draws a penis fairly well.

those are incredible

Love these, so so cool!!!

very nice collection… just wonder if the last one about the “Spanky Hanky” isn’t the childs (parrot like) memory comming out on paper… as if to say that his mother was yelling this to his father the night before??!!

Children’s artwork is so amazing, this is really interesting stuff.

Great work! I’m still amazed!!

these are sorta scary. a little psychotic if you ask me

I find nothing at all exploitative about this art project. The artist is playing a wonderful “what if?” game of re-envisioning what a child’s drawing might look like if they possessed more mature graphic skills. I thought he kept true to the intent of the drawings. If they seemed too scary to some of the viewers here, look again at the child’s drawing and notice the cues he picked up. When kids draw pointy teeth and spikey hair, they are drawing monsters. Devries just pushed them forward in the direction they were already going, and if it scared and disturbed you, GOOD!, you got the intent of the kid’s drawing as well as Devries’.

As for the kids’ drawings that did not have obvious cues to monsterdom, I agree that he could have opted to use a less lurid palette and push them in a more positive direction (for Wonder Woman and Catch, i.e.)

Nice & Amazing

Awesome how the imagination of a child becomes a reality by the hands of a artist.

xendlessxurbiax needs to read the opening statement. The children drew their picture first.

“idea of creating realistic paintings from children’s drawings”

I enjoyed both artist’s rendition; but I feel that the children showed another emotion, such as love and friendship, and the monster artist changed into something wicked and scary.

very good, great imagination in kids mind

I think I see a lot of stereotypes playing out here…. first off, as a little girl, not all of my drawing were full of sunshine and butterflies. When something scared me, or made me feel insecure, I would often try to draw my boogeyman. Also, these are all obviously done by children, just look at the crude brush strokes. Toddlers are creatures of imitation to learn, so if they had seen someone draw a face with three-dimensional attributes, they would do the same. I was overall impressed with this artists ideas, and felt that each and every picture was a vivid recreation of the original. This ability allows for adults to pay closer attention to what we can learn from the artistic musings of children. Too often these drawings would be dismissed out of hand.

Goes to show we were all born creative, just look at those children’s drawings they’re hard to comprehend they are so creative

What a wonderful idea!
Am very impressed!
Maybe I should take another look at my kids’ drawings

Marco

great idea,great art & talent

very nice kids poster.
i love owl……………….
send me owl poster for me owlmuseum,
thanks

First off I LOVE this!

Just genius!

However I’m bothered by all these people tearing the adult down without even knowing any of the details and making a basket load of assumptions.

First off about how the artist made the pictures scary…Kids see some scary stuff, why do you think they’re afraid of monsters? They have pictures of them in their heads. When I was 10 and younger most of my art was snakes and swords drawn as scary as I could. From 11-15 when I wasn’t drawing cars and babes like all the other cool kids I was drawing stick men dying horrible deaths in huge endless traps that guaranteed nothing but death by dismemberment, smashing, burning or something else equally horrible.

To those saying the kids drawings are better…I’m sorry. No. They’re very mediocre drawings. Not to say they’re not interesting or I don’t like them I’ve just seen much more creative and much more talented artists. The adult on the other hand was able to look at a kid’s drawing and have the imagination to turn it into what he did…that’s some insane talent!

brilliant ~ thank you for putting these up on the net

i think these are wonderful! adults showing love for their children.

Shutup Dede “Oh blah blah the great art of a child “blah blah” Dede get a life

These children draw waay better than me.. and im 22… haha

I’m struck by how all the images are horrific, or negative.
Children use art to tame their fears and empower themselves. I love that. And love the drawings.

I’m just startled by how there’s no gentle imagery here. (Not blaming the kids!) But our culture.

Way, way too much TV. I’ve seen stuff on daytime TV I know incredible numbers of little 3 and 3 and 4-year-olds are absorbing unprotected. We’re numbed to the damage it causes them.

that anon guy is an idiot, toddlers aren’t 6 years old, they’re like 2 and 3… If you had read the paragraph explaining the artwork, you would have noticed.
i really love this, it is very inspiring.

the avatar for this comment i’m making kinda looks like one of the drawings.

I think that its funny, adults look at it as either simply scribbles, or amazing art. The artists themselves see it as a christmas present

I absolutely love these. My VERY favorite would have to be the wierd cat. :]] You, and the children, did great. :]]

What a very cool idea! I love that the kids are providing the inspiration for the adults. The results look great.

Why do so many of theses pics look scary? (both kid’s drawings and the artist’s version)

The idea is pretty interesting. I’ve never seen such illustrations. But some of children’s drawings are so much scary. This is what too much TV makes with children. Anyway I enjoyed to see this unique collection of illustrations by Dave DeVries

Igor
Artist and illustrator from Ukraine

Amazing interpretations…and a bit creepy! I love looking at children’s art. It’s amazing how such cute, innocent drawings can be so cleverly twisted into such horrifying creations.

Simply a great way to spend time while eating your cereal. And I wasn’t even eating my cereal!

I think these are amazing, and I can’t stop looking at them. It bothers me that people are so caught up on how “scary” the pictures are. To me, the disturbing nature of the images comes from our judgments. Children don’t censor their imaginations like adults do, and some really wild stuff comes out. That is what innocence means to me.

They made me look twice…and three times…and more. I’m overcome with a sort of nostalgia….they are actually triggering a visual memory of what it was like to imagine things as a child. The manner in which these pictures are rendered is strangely familiar.

Sure, they are dark – but not entirely. And I think people underestimate children. We don’t like to imagine that they are anything other than light and joy, and that we become corrupt as we get older…but it is really our judgments of ourselves that make us corrupt. I think these pictures are valuable to help us remember what it was like to be a kid, and to help us understand them as whole human beings again.

Anyway, enough of this rambling. I just wanna say – AAAMMMAAAZZZINGGGG!!!! Thank you for this! This has inspired me to try it out myself on a couple of my own old childhood drawings.

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Great. very inspirational collection. All those draws done by kids? Its really great they work well. Nice thoughts and sketches. It will very useful for kids and who people want to start drawing. Thanks a lot.

My daughter 5 year old daughter says the baseball looks like a fish with metal teeth, the one with a black dress looks like a ballerina creature, Big Moth looks like he has to keep his mouth open all the time, and Weird Cat looks kind of like a cat.