Regular visitors to Bored Panda will no doubt be familiar with the incredibly cool drawings of Thomas Romain. He's a French anime artist living in Tokyo who's worked on popular anime characters from various series including Space Dandy, Basquash!, and Aria, but his best drawing ideas are the ones that come from his sons.
Working together in what he calls the Father And Sons Design Workshop, Thomas and his kids come up with an eclectic assortment of funny, creepy, and sometimes downright bizarre character designs. Well, it's actually his children who think of them, and then Thomas adds his professional touch to turn them into creative anime drawings - from one-eyed beasts and plant monsters to giant robots and pink-haired hoverboarders. Check out some of our favorite fantasy creatures below, and don't forget to vote for the best! You can follow them on Instagram and YouTube, and you can also support them and their cool characters on Patreon.
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I don't know which I admire more...the son's imagination or the dad's talent
That was my question as well. Both have such amazing talent. The child has pure imagination and is learning his skills so well. The father's skills are simply amazing and I would love to see some of his own ideas too. Simply amazing.
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All kids sometimes draw dark stuff like this. Isn't judge a book by its cover.
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I'm a huge anime addict n there's nothing better than the unthinkable and the best part about these drawings is the imagination of a kid with the artistic hand of an adult
The son has incredible imaginación and the dad is an awesome artist. What a fantastic team!!
AMAZING! All of them! I'm just.. speechless! https://usthosting.com
Why isn't this guy drawing his own comic strip, or comic book? His skill is exemplary.
I LOVED the first round & these make a double dose of fun. His son has a rich, vivid, imagination & talent. Another artist's occupation as a grown-up ???
Surely growing up around an illustrator makes you more imaginative. Also he probably copies his Dad's creations, as any child would.
Load More Replies... I WANNA BE A DAD LIKE THAT. (Not to mention that I'm a teenage girl with absolutely no talent, but one can dream.)
You can be a mom like him! Don't need special talents, but be supportive yo
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:o Waao he should really sell these to gaming companies to make their charakters more interesting. Would love to see these in a new Final Fantasy. *-*
Actually I'm not so convinced that those doodles are the kids creation. If you pay close attention there are small details in those drawings like the are with a really firm hand, and in other way they look like intentionally made like that.
Good eye, I think his father may have helped him drawing some of the parts... Like check out the hands of the electron monster on picture #11 and now compare these line with the faint thin scribbly lines on the monster's body.
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His son is progressing nicely. Won't be too long before he can produce work of his Father's quality. I bet they will have some other worldly looking collaborations.
I want to see all of them in either video games, cards and or cartoons/anime!
His son has a beautiful imagination, something that isn't common nowadays.
The imagination and talent you two have is absolutely unbelievable. I'm a little sad that there's no comic books or cartoons starring your creations!
What a great way to tap into yur "mini-me" mind's eye for fantastic double barrel creative fun. These are really fantastic & fun!
I think the pictures are scary but then I watch the news and it's in real life. Now THAT is scary.
Wow. That takes imagination and restraint, not to alter the original concept. And the end products look awesome. So cool!
AMAZING! All of them! I'm just.. speechless! https://usthosting.com
I think they're selling the kid short calling these "doodles", he has quite the imagination. His dad just simply polishes it up.
I draw non anime masterpieces, wish i could draw anime without it looking like a deranged furry
I'd love to see what he would have done with some of my childhood doodles - if only I could find them!
Is his dad an artist for Studio Ghibli?Holy s**t, some of these need to be animated
The son is the star of this. I’m someone who doesn’t care for children and am not easily impressed by them but this kid is literally amazing. I love his style, it genuinely speaks to me. He’s so creative on a level almost nobody is. His dad obviously is more talented at drawing and is more refined but the sons mind is lightyears ahead of most professional adult artists.
Very nice. I love the shading and highlights in the dad's work. (But I have to say to the person who titled this: as these characters aren't part of an anime, I'm pretty sure it's not appropriate to call them "anime characters". Maybe anime-esque characters, if you MUST.)
I LOVED the first round & these make a double dose of fun. His son has a rich, vivid, imagination & talent. Another artist's occupation as a grown-up ???
Surely growing up around an illustrator makes you more imaginative. Also he probably copies his Dad's creations, as any child would.
Load More Replies... I WANNA BE A DAD LIKE THAT. (Not to mention that I'm a teenage girl with absolutely no talent, but one can dream.)
You can be a mom like him! Don't need special talents, but be supportive yo
Load More Replies... :o Waao he should really sell these to gaming companies to make their charakters more interesting. Would love to see these in a new Final Fantasy. *-*
Actually I'm not so convinced that those doodles are the kids creation. If you pay close attention there are small details in those drawings like the are with a really firm hand, and in other way they look like intentionally made like that.
Good eye, I think his father may have helped him drawing some of the parts... Like check out the hands of the electron monster on picture #11 and now compare these line with the faint thin scribbly lines on the monster's body.
Load More Replies... His son is progressing nicely. Won't be too long before he can produce work of his Father's quality. I bet they will have some other worldly looking collaborations.
I want to see all of them in either video games, cards and or cartoons/anime!
His son has a beautiful imagination, something that isn't common nowadays.
The imagination and talent you two have is absolutely unbelievable. I'm a little sad that there's no comic books or cartoons starring your creations!
What a great way to tap into yur "mini-me" mind's eye for fantastic double barrel creative fun. These are really fantastic & fun!
I think the pictures are scary but then I watch the news and it's in real life. Now THAT is scary.
Wow. That takes imagination and restraint, not to alter the original concept. And the end products look awesome. So cool!
AMAZING! All of them! I'm just.. speechless! https://usthosting.com
I think they're selling the kid short calling these "doodles", he has quite the imagination. His dad just simply polishes it up.
I draw non anime masterpieces, wish i could draw anime without it looking like a deranged furry
I'd love to see what he would have done with some of my childhood doodles - if only I could find them!
Is his dad an artist for Studio Ghibli?Holy s**t, some of these need to be animated
The son is the star of this. I’m someone who doesn’t care for children and am not easily impressed by them but this kid is literally amazing. I love his style, it genuinely speaks to me. He’s so creative on a level almost nobody is. His dad obviously is more talented at drawing and is more refined but the sons mind is lightyears ahead of most professional adult artists.
Very nice. I love the shading and highlights in the dad's work. (But I have to say to the person who titled this: as these characters aren't part of an anime, I'm pretty sure it's not appropriate to call them "anime characters". Maybe anime-esque characters, if you MUST.)
