Being a Commercial Artist

Authors Note: This is a piece about Commercial Artist that I wrote for computer publications class, we researched a publishing career and we wrote about their job as a Commercial Artist is.

            

 Commercial Artist exercise their artistic skills to promote companies and non-profit organizations. They develop design plans for CD-ROMs, websites, logos, and printed ads and also create backdrops for movies and television shows with input from the producer. Commercial artist work mainly alone where they design computer generated graphics, and develop ideas for posters and signs, or they are a part of design teams , where they have many designers put in their ideas to create a piece of artwork for the business they are employed for.  Necessary attributes to be a commercial artist along with any other artist are good coordination through their hands, eyes and fingers. The key to being a good commercial artist is to have a good sense of color like with any of artist.  

          

  The education need to be a commercial artist is either a high school diploma or a bachelor’s degree. Along with that education courses that would enhance their career opportunities are commercial art in college, geometry and art in high school for obvious reasons. The income for a Commercial Artist is depended on their education and experience with more experience the higher income the average commercial artist can make $54,000 a year in the state of Michigan it varies from state to state. The income probably would not be the same in Wisconsin. The commercial art industry is expected to grow by the year 2014, 160 annual job opening will be expected which is quite a lot, and again it varies by state.

           

The Job of a commercial artist would be a very though job and sometimes rather effortless. Though a commercial artist has an annual salary that is quite good I would not like to have a job like this because of the long hours and having to work with design teams where not all of us might agree. But some of the intrigues of the job are being able to work alone and the low education qualifications and again having the good annual income. Although it sounds like a fun and good job being a commercial artist does not appeal to me, I would not like to be a commercial artist.