How do they match: Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators

  • Collaborate with writers who create ideas, stories, or captions that are combined with artists' work.
  • Create and prepare sketches and model drawings of cartoon characters, providing details from memory, live models, manufactured products, or reference materials.
  • Create finished art work as decoration, or to elucidate or substitute for spoken or written messages.
  • Create sketches, profiles, or likenesses of posed subjects or photographs, using any combination of freehand drawing, mechanical assembly kits, and computer imaging.
  • Cut, bend, laminate, arrange, and fasten individual or mixed raw and manufactured materials and products to form works of art.
  • Maintain portfolios of artistic work to demonstrate styles, interests, and abilities.
  • Provide entertainment at special events by performing activities such as drawing cartoons.
  • Render drawings, illustrations, and sketches of buildings, manufactured products, or models, working from sketches, blueprints, memory, models, or reference materials.
  • Render sequential drawings that can be turned into animated films or advertisements.
  • Shade and fill in sketch outlines and backgrounds, using a variety of media such as water colors, markers, and transparent washes, labeling designated colors when necessary.
  • Study styles, techniques, colors, textures, and materials used in works undergoing restoration to ensure consistency during the restoration process.
  • Trace drawings onto clear acetate for painting or coloring, or trace them with ink to make final copies.

  • Draw detailed or technical illustrations.
  • Conduct research to inform art, designs, or other work.
  • Present work to clients for approval.