Science Fiction Art

The Alien by Spencer, Grade 6

Moon Creature by Amara, Grade 6

Alien Fish by Andrew, Grade 5

Do you enjoy drawing robots or space ships? Do you sketch aliens in your notebooks? Have you illustrated a story or dreamed of doing the cover art for a favorite book? Have you done a sculpture with a science fiction theme?

Here's your chance to share your talent and imagination! We plan to post one piece of art each week and then move each piece into this permanent online gallery.

Submitting a piece of art grants Science News for Kids permission to post it on our Web site. The contributor will be acknowledged by first name and either age, grade, or city.

Please submit artwork to Julie E. Czerneda. Include your first and last names, age, grade, and mailing address. Also include a note of permission from your parent or guardian. Art can be either scanned or photographed with a digital camera and sent electronically to scifizone@snkids.com. Or it can be mailed to Julie E. Czerneda, Science News for Kids, 1719 N Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20036. If you enclose a self-addressed envelope, we will try to return all artwork, but we can't guarantee it.

Guest Artist: Kenn Brown

About the artist

Kenn Brown is a Canadian science fiction and fantasy illustrator whose first published work was with Adbusters Magazine back in 1995.

Kenn grew up in the suburbs of Toronto being woken up at all hours of the night by his father to munch down popcorn and watch such science fiction movie classics as Them, When Worlds Collide, and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Despite his nocturnal diet of great science fiction and horror, he managed to graduate from high school with honors and went on to spend 4 years studying illustration and design at the Ontario College of Art and Design.

Shortly afterwards, Kenn moved on to Vancouver, British Columbia, where he has lived (on and off) for the last 10 years. He spent some time working on video games in Las Vegas and hanging out on the beach in Los Angeles, returning to his beloved Vancouver to pursue his goals as an independent artist.

About the image

The illustration was made with 3d Studio Max (modeling and construction) and Photoshop (Digital paint and image manipulation tool). It was created to accompany an article on great visionaries who are going to help change the way we live and was originally published in Business 2.0 Magazine.

The visionary in question is Cynthia Breazeal, who is the director of the Robotic Life Group at MIT's Media Lab. Her goal is to create social robots that can interact with people as teachers, doctors, and friends.

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