Dave Devries
New Jersey-based artist Dave Devries takes children’s drawings and re-renders them as amazing, surreal paintings of monsters and superheroes. If this doesn’t make you go squee, you have no heart.
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Jamie said | 10 May, 2008
If only I’d had somebody to reillustrate my childhood drawings, maybe my points would’ve been better understood. Drawing still isn’t my strong suit, le sigh.