Starting with children’s sketches of monsters, artist Dave DeVries illustrates them as realistically—as far as comic books go—as possible.

The project, titled The Monster Engine, has DeVries rendering stick-figure outlines given to him by children in florid 3D detail. In most examples, the outline of the original characters remain unchanged; DeVries only fills the shapes in with color and texture.

DeVries said his intention was to combine “adult experience with childhood creativity”, using his skills as a professional artist to flesh out the vivid imagination of a child.

“A child… ignores the idea of mass communication by creating images solely from his or her mind,” the artist wrote on his website. “Often, a parent must ask the child to describe what exactly the young artist is drawing.”



















[via Design You Trust]


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