| Top Tasks (Specific duties and responsibilities of this job.) |
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| Study different techniques to learn how to apply them to artistic endeavors. |
| Render drawings, illustrations, and sketches of buildings, manufactured products, or models, working from sketches, blueprints, memory, models, or reference materials. |
| Top Skills used in this Job |
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| Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. |
| Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
| Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
| Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. |
| Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. |
| Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others` reactions and understanding why they react as they do. |
| Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
| Operations Analysis - Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design. |
| Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
| Time Management - Managing one`s own time and the time of others. |
