Are you an aspiring artist?
Do you love to paint or draw?
Enter the Star People Artwork Contest!
Entrants between ages 13-18 are eligible.
No purchase necessary. No entry fees.
Cash prizes. No AI generated artwork.
The author and the creative team for the Star People Trilogy are sponsoring an artwork competition to inspire young artists to pursue their creativity. The contest is occurring in conjunction with the release of the first book of the Star People Trilogy called, Star People: Mystery of the Hologram.
Selected entries will be posted on the official Star People website!
The first-place winner of the contest will receive $200, second-place will receive $100, and third-place will receive $50.
The school represented by the winning student will receive $250 to be used towards art supplies or equipment to enrich their art program.
Artwork created by AI or machine learning will be disqualified. Be sure to read all of the contest rules before you begin to create your entry.
Get creative, and have fun!
The objective of the contest is to bring a passage (see below) from the book, Star People: Mystery of the Hologram, to life through an original artistic creation. The scene takes place inside an Egyptian pyramid. Your artwork can have hints of ancient Egyptian art, or it can be completely in your own style.
You can use any variation of physical mediums such as acrylics, watercolors, and colored pencils or any type of digital art creation tools such as Pro Create, but absolutely no part of the artwork is allowed to be generated using AI or machine learning. It must be an original creation.
In the scene, the characters, Scott (age 15), Christina (age 15), and Brett (Scott’s younger brother, age 11), are taken by a friendly alien named Zula to a chamber inside the Great Pyramid of Egypt. Zula is unable to speak, so she communicates her thoughts to Scott via telepathy. Inside that room, Zula shows them a painting of the five beings that went into the creation of a sinister character in the book named Zarco. Zarco was created by extracting the DNA from five different sources: a dragon, a sorcerer, an Egyptian princess, an alien and a warrior from Greek mythology.
Your artwork can include any or all of the figures who are described in the following passage.
Below is the INFORMATION on which your artwork is to be based. It takes place at the moment the characters enter a room inside the gREAT pyramid.
Inspirational Information
The scene takes place inside a secret room within an Egyptian pyramid.
Inside the room Scott describes what he sees: “The walls and ceiling were covered with pictures of pharaohs and gods and goddesses. In addition to the larger figures, there were thousands of smaller symbols and animals. Scott could see dozens of shapes: serpents, falcons, lions, stars, boats, and suns, all carved into the walls and meticulously painted in vibrant colors.”
In the scene, the characters, Scott (age 15), Christina (age 15), and Brett (Scott’s younger brother, age 11), are taken by a friendly alien named Zula to a chamber inside the Great Pyramid of Egypt. Inside that room, Zula shows them a painting of the five beings that went into the creation of a sinister character named Zarco. Zarco was created by extracting the DNA from five different sources: a dragon, a sorcerer, an Egyptian princess, an alien and a warrior from Greek mythology.
The dragon breathes fire and is flying through the air. The mysterious sorcerer lived thousands of years ago and often hides behind his cape. The Egyptian princess is full of kindness and love. The alien is a Star Person with a glowing star in the center of his forehead. The warrior is a Greek demigod armed with a sword and shield.
There are lines that extend from each of those five beings and converge at the heart of a very powerful figure named Zarco. He has a human head, muscular arms and shoulders, with a dragon’s wings and is holding a bolt of lightning in his hand.
Your artwork can be of one or all of the figures who are described above.