- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who draws or paints apparel and accessory illustrations for newspaper or related advertisements. Responsibilities include:
* Positions garment, accessory, or model to accentuate desired sales features.
* Renders drawing of garment or accessory, complementary articles, and background, using various art media and materials.
* May use models, props, and settings to accentuate subject materials.
* May draw lettering.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who designs art and copy layouts for material to be presented by visual communications media such as books, magazines, newspapers, television, and packaging. Responsibilities include:
* Studies illustrations and photographs to plan presentation of material, product, or service.
* Determines size and arrangement of illustrative material and copy, selects style and size of type, and arranges layout based upon available space, knowledge of layout principles, and esthetic design concepts.
* Draws sample of finished layout and presents sample to art director for approval.
* Prepares notes and instructions for workers who assemble and prepare final layouts for printing.
* Reviews final layout and suggests improvements as needed.
* May prepare illustrations or rough sketches of material according to instructions of client or supervisor.
* May prepare series of drawings to illustrate sequence and timing of story development for television production.
* May mark up, paste, and assemble final layouts to prepare layouts for printer.
* May specialize in particular field, medium, or type of layout.
* May produce still and animated graphic formats for on-air and taped portions of television news broadcasts, using electronic video equipment.
* May photograph layouts, using camera, to make layout prints for supervisor or client.
* May develop negatives and prints, using negative and print developing equipment, tools and work aids to produce layout photographs for client or supervisor.
* May key information into computer equipment to create layouts for client or supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who designs art and copy layouts for material to be presented by visual communications media such as books, magazines, newspapers, television, and packaging. Responsibilities include:
* Studies illustrations and photographs to plan presentation of material, product, or service.
* Determines size and arrangement of illustrative material and copy, selects style and size of type, and arranges layout based upon available space, knowledge of layout principles, and esthetic design concepts.
* Draws sample of finished layout and presents sample to art director for approval.
* Prepares notes and instructions for workers who assemble and prepare final layouts for printing.
* Reviews final layout and suggests improvements as needed.
* May prepare illustrations or rough sketches of material according to instructions of client or supervisor.
* May prepare series of drawings to illustrate sequence and timing of story development for television production.
* May mark up, paste, and assemble final layouts to prepare layouts for printer.
* May specialize in particular field, medium, or type of layout.
* May produce still and animated graphic formats for on-air and taped portions of television news broadcasts, using electronic video equipment.
* May photograph layouts, using camera, to make layout prints for supervisor or client.
* May develop negatives and prints, using negative and print developing equipment, tools and work aids to produce layout photographs for client or supervisor.
* May key information into computer equipment to create layouts for client or supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who draws or paints illustrations for use by various media to explain or adorn printed or spoken word. Responsibilities include:
* Studies layouts, sketches of proposed illustrations, and related materials to become familiar with assignment.
* Determines style, technique, and medium best suited to produce desired effects and conform with reproduction requirements, or receives specific instructions regarding these variables.
* Formulates concept and renders illustration and detail from models, sketches, memory, and imagination.
* Discusses illustration at various stages of completion and makes changes as necessary.
* May select type, draw lettering, lay out material, or perform related duties.
* May be identified according to specific style, technique, medium, subject material or combination of variables.
* May draw or paint graphic material and lettering to be used for title, background, screen advertising, commercial logo, and other visual layouts for motion picture production and television programming and be designated Title Artist.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who creates illustrations, graphics, and three dimensional models to demonstrate medical or biological subjects, using variety of artistic techniques. Responsibilities include:
* Develops drawings, paintings, diagrams, and models of medical or biological subjects in fields such as anatomy, physiology, histology, pathology, or in surgical procedures, for use in publications, exhibits, consultations, research, and teaching activities.
* Completes illustrations in pen and ink, oil, monochromatic wash, watercolor, carbon dust, and mixed media.
* Constructs or advises in construction of models in plaster, wax, plastics, and other materials.
* Devises visual aids, such as films, video tapes, charts, and computer graphics, to assist in teaching and research programs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who creates illustrations, graphics, and three dimensional models to demonstrate medical or biological subjects, using variety of artistic techniques. Responsibilities include:
* Develops drawings, paintings, diagrams, and models of medical or biological subjects in fields such as anatomy, physiology, histology, pathology, or in surgical procedures, for use in publications, exhibits, consultations, research, and teaching activities.
* Completes illustrations in pen and ink, oil, monochromatic wash, watercolor, carbon dust, and mixed media.
* Constructs or advises in construction of models in plaster, wax, plastics, and other materials.
* Devises visual aids, such as films, video tapes, charts, and computer graphics, to assist in teaching and research programs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, develops, and prepares illustrations of scenes and backgrounds against which action is filmed for use in motion picture or television production. Responsibilities include:
* Reads script, reviews working drawings, conducts research and consults with art director to develop illustration ideas.
* Performs duties of illustrator to render illustrations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, develops, and prepares illustrations of scenes and backgrounds against which action is filmed for use in motion picture or television production. Responsibilities include:
* Reads script, reviews working drawings, conducts research and consults with art director to develop illustration ideas.
* Performs duties of illustrator to render illustrations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sketches likenesses of criminal suspects, according to descriptions of victims and witnesses, and prepares schematic drawings depicting scenes of crimes. Responsibilities include:
* Interviews crime victims and witnesses to obtain descriptive information concerning physical build, sex, nationality, facial features, and related characteristics of unidentified suspect.
* Prepares series of simple line drawings conforming to description of suspect and presents drawings to informant for selection of sketch that most resembles suspect.
* Questions informant to obtain additional descriptive information and draws and verifies details of features to improve resemblance of conception to recollection of informant.
* Measures distances and sketches layout of crime scene, or develops sketches from photographs and measurements taken at scene of crime by other police personnel to prepare schematic drawing of scene of crime.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sketches likenesses of criminal suspects, according to descriptions of victims and witnesses, and prepares schematic drawings depicting scenes of crimes. Responsibilities include:
* Interviews crime victims and witnesses to obtain descriptive information concerning physical build, sex, nationality, facial features, and related characteristics of unidentified suspect.
* Prepares series of simple line drawings conforming to description of suspect and presents drawings to informant for selection of sketch that most resembles suspect.
* Questions informant to obtain additional descriptive information and draws and verifies details of features to improve resemblance of conception to recollection of informant.
* Measures distances and sketches layout of crime scene, or develops sketches from photographs and measurements taken at scene of crime by other police personnel to prepare schematic drawing of scene of crime.
Industry:Professional careers
