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Create original artwork using any of a wide variety of media and techniques.

Currently Employed: 41

Yearly Projected Openings: 0

Typical Hourly Wage: Not Available

Typical Annual Salary: Not Available

• Use materials such as pens and ink, watercolors, charcoal, oil, or computer software to create artwork.
• Integrate and develop visual elements, such as line, space, mass, color, and perspective, in order to produce desired effects such as the illustration of ideas, emotions, or moods.
• Confer with clients, editors, writers, art directors, and other interested parties regarding the nature and content of artwork to be produced.
• Submit preliminary or finished artwork or project plans to clients for approval, incorporating changes as necessary.
• Maintain portfolios of artistic work to demonstrate styles, interests, and abilities.
• Render drawings, illustrations, and sketches of buildings, manufactured products, or models, working from sketches, blueprints, memory, models, or reference materials.
• Create finished art work as decoration, or to elucidate or substitute for spoken or written messages.
• Cut, bend, laminate, arrange, and fasten individual or mixed raw and manufactured materials and products to form works of art.
• Monitor events, trends, and other circumstances, research specific subject areas, attend art exhibitions, and read art publications in order to develop ideas and keep current on art world activities.
• Create sketches, profiles, or likenesses of posed subjects or photographs, using any combination of freehand drawing, mechanical assembly kits, and computer imaging.