Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators

No automatable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as durable (65%).

• Submit artwork to shows or galleries.
• Frame and mat artwork for display or sale.
• Confer with clients, editors, writers, art directors, and other interested parties regarding the nature and content of artwork to be produced.
• Maintain portfolios of artistic work to demonstrate styles, interests, and abilities.
• Study different techniques to learn how to apply them to artistic endeavors.
• Develop project budgets for approval, estimating time lines and material costs.
• Render drawings, illustrations, and sketches of buildings, manufactured products, or models, working from sketches, blueprints, memory, models, or reference materials.

• Use materials such as pens and ink, watercolors, charcoal, oil, or computer software to create artwork.
• Market artwork through brochures, mailings, or Web sites.
• Photograph objects, places, or scenes for reference material.
• Submit preliminary or finished artwork or project plans to clients for approval, incorporating changes as necessary.
• Integrate and develop visual elements, such as line, space, mass, color, and perspective, to produce desired effects, such as the illustration of ideas, emotions, or moods.
• Create sculptures, statues, and other three-dimensional artwork by using abrasives and tools to shape, carve, and fabricate materials such as clay, stone, wood, or metal.
• Collaborate with engineers, mechanics, and other technical experts as necessary to build and install creations.
• Cut, bend, laminate, arrange, and fasten individual or mixed raw and manufactured materials and products to form works of art.
• Provide entertainment at special events by performing activities such as drawing cartoons.
• Set up exhibitions of artwork for display or sale.
• Model substances such as clay or wax, using fingers and small hand tools to form objects.
• 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.
• Monitor events, trends, and other circumstances, research specific subject areas, attend art exhibitions, and read art publications to develop ideas and keep current on art world activities.