I Created An Account Where Professional Artists Recreate Children’s Monster Drawings Each Week (20 New Pics)

March 17, 2022

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I’m a full-time professional illustrator with 45 children’s picture books under my belt. “Monsters Go Night-Night,” a book in which all of the characters were inspired by monster drawings produced by my 5-year-old son Elijah, was released in 2016. I encouraged artists to modify the original kid drawings in their own unique ways and share them on social media to celebrate the book’s release. The response was so positive that I renamed the challenge “Monsters Go” and continued to post a new monster prompt every week for the next three years, with all six of my children contributing. During this time, I began a new personal project called “Monsters Go,” which I kept referring to.Instead of several artists drawing from a single monster prompt, I, as a single artist, would redraw many monsters submitted by many kids in this round.

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Prompt By Kid-Artist Evie, Fan Art By @Davepryor72

From 2017 to 2018, I got almost 20,000 designs from children and redrew 300 of them. In 2019, I finished the online challenge to redraw my own children’s monsters. When the epidemic struck, however, I began receiving regular requests from artists, who were looking for both joy and creative inspiration in these trying times.