40 Artists Recreate Children's Artwork With The Most Amazing Results
Artist and children’s book illustrator, Aaron Zenz, published a book called "Monsters Go Night-Night" using his 5-year-old son’s drawings of monsters as inspiration. He calls these recreations his own fan art tribute to his son.
When the book was released, he invited other artists to re-imagine the monster drawings his son created in their own style. The response was astounding, inspiring hundreds of original pieces of fan art to share on social media.
Zenz dubbed the challenge “Monsters Go”, and created a Twitter account, Instagram account, and hashtag #MonstersGo in order to share all the fan art. This social media project was maintained via a weekly monster prompt, proposed by each of his six children.
During this time, he launched a personal project that he continued to refer to as “Monsters Go.” Instead of having many different artists draw from a single monster prompt decided by his children, he in turn would redraw as many monsters submitted by other children as he could.
Zanz shares that he received an astounding 20,000 designs submitted by children, and made 300 fan art pieces himself between 2017-2018. By 2019, he went back to his original model of having artists create their own fan art of his own kids’ monsters.
Then the pandemic happened, and everything slowed down. Artists, desperate for creative inspiration and joy, started requesting Zanz to revive Monsters Go.
Shortly after everything went into lockdown, the Monsters Go Instagram was brought back to life, complete with weekly prompts and showcased responses. Zanz, running low on his own kids’ monster prompts, began to pull from the 20,000 drawings submitted by children from his other project.
Kid-Artist: Ari
Fan Art By: @doodley_stew
Instagram: Monsters.GoKid-Artist: Leo
Fan Art By: @traeshaesthetics
Instagram: Monsters.GoKid-Artist: Kaira
Fan Art By: @hichiha_0031
Instagram: Monsters.GoKid-Artist: Harper
Fan Art By: @_the.tyler.wolf_
Instagram: Monsters.GoKid-Artist: Jonah
Fan Art By @happymonkeyshoes
Instagram: Monsters.GoKid-Artist: Kurt
Fan Art By: @craigcheape
Instagram: Monsters.GoKid-Artist: Atticus
Fan Art By: @revcruz
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Mercy
Fan Art By: @austinmills2664
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Brooklynn
Fan Art By: @volatilconcept
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Isaac
Fan Art By: @omar_ero
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Evie
Fan Art By: @davepryor72
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Carter
Fan Art By: @jazylhdraws
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Megan
Fan Art By: @handshooks
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Preston
Fan Art By: @aaronzenz
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Evie
Fan Art By: @ohalloren
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Liv
Fan Art By: @cozacana_
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Brianna
Fan Art By: @jawadog
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Gracie
Fan Art By: @slightly.life
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Mason
Fan Art By: @reinvanwykillustrate
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Jonas
Fan Art By: @streetfiedler
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Isaac
Fan Art By: @rambling_armadillos
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Carlos
Fan Art By: @martin_trokenheim
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Elijah
Fan Art By @davepryor
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Jae
Fan Art By: @dave.pasciuto
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Raelynn
Fan Art By: @purperoni
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Josiah
Fan Art By: @chibyversity
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Mason
Fan Art By: @barbara.knappe
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Kaiya
Fan Art By: @thehamofficial
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Aimee
Fan Art By: @tomabelillustration
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Luke
Fan Art By: @adamsanfordart
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Wolfe
Fan Art By: @g.s.artworks
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Heather
Fan Art By: @tobiasm.art
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Parker
Fan Art By: @illustrations.by.ellie
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Arie
Fan Art By: @mikebaldridge.design
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Lexi
Fan Art By: @danny.kneip
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Elyse
Fan Art By: @illustration_nerd
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artists: Lily, Evie, and Maggie
Fan Art by: @flyssann
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Gracie
Fan Art By: @tartessoatlas
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Maggie
Fan Art By: @kamethehermit
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Kid-Artist: Alan
Fan Art By: @aaronzenz
Instagram: Monsters.Go
Zenz created a video showing the process of creating Monsters Go Night-Night
Since the conception of the #MonstersGo challenge, Zanz estimates that over 1,000 artists from around the globe have contributed, and around 4,000 pieces of artwork have been created! What an amazing response inspired by the sweetest bonding activity between father and son.
Be sure to share with the artists and art lovers in your life! And you can follow or participate in the Monsters Go challenge on: Twitter | Instagram
