This week for the These Dads Are Doing It Right series I want to highlight dads who are bonding with their kids through art. These creative dads are doing really cool things with their kids. Check out their work. In addition, if there are any other dads that you think we should check out, leave their name and info in the comment section below.
Creative Dads Bonding With Their Kids
Thomas Romain
Thomas Romain is an anime artist who transforms his sons’ doodles into professional illustrations. He created the “Father and Sons Design Workshop,” where his children have complete creative freedom to design robots, aliens, and hybrid creatures. His children create the original concepts, while Romain refines them using his industry experience. The project highlights the creativity of children and the collaborative bond between parent and child.
Tom Curtis
Tom Curtis uses Photoshop to recreate his sons’ imaginative drawings as realistic, sometimes hilarious, 3D images and animations. He and his son created the website, Things I Have Drawn. Therefore their site imagines a world in which the things kids draw are real. What started as a silly little project between dad, Tom, and his 6-year-old son, Dom, soon had Dom’s younger brother, Al, joining in the fun, and more recently has turned into something much much bigger, with parents sending their kid’s drawings in from all over the world.
Fred Giovannitti
Fred Giovannitti is a dad who takes his children’s line drawings with him on business trips and colors them using pencils or an iPad. He does this to create a shared bond through a multi-step collaboration. When he’s not traveling, Giovannitti lives in Delaware with his wife and two children. He has started experimenting with coloring his kids’ drawings on his iPad using the ArtStudio app after snapping a photo of the line drawing.
Rob and Georgia
Rob and Georgia are a father-daughter duo who work together on hyperrealistic charcoal drawings. Their artwork is focused on animal conservation, with Rob teaching Georgia the technical skills of drawing. In addition you can see their work over on social media as @robartstories. They collaborate on every piece, using a subtractive, “negative drawing” technique to create high-contrast art, often focusing on subjects. Check out their work over at robharrisart.com.