If you just finished your education in the fine arts and are equipped with the skills necessary to start working, it’s time to think about where can you ply your trade. It’s not just about what you want or what you feel comfortable with drawing, painting or illustrating, but what’s available. If you check freelance websites, you’ll see that the market is flooded with starving artists. While some might not be quite up-to-par with someone who has great talent and an education, thousands will get the job done, quick, and cheap. So, how do you stay competitive and cut-out a niche for yourself to where you can grow and still earn enough for rent?
One good answer is to look for employment where others aren’t. See, artists are needed in all kinds of fields because they provide a crucial tool needed to sell services or sell people on an idea, and that’s the visual presentation. Most people’s imaginations are lacking when it comes to expressing themselves, let alone visualizing stuff. That’s where you come in, as a visual communicator. Sure, you might not be able to express your artistic vision, but you can still do what you love and get paid for it.
Here are a few sectors where you can enquire about a job.
Online Casino Gambling
If you’re thinking – what am I going to do for an online casino? Well, they have games, don’t they? Have you seen some of them? Today, reels with cherries, bells, and sevens are no longer a thing, no, no, no, nowadays it’s all about super-advanced slot games. Ones that have specific themes, characters, stories, skill-based bonus rounds and more. The themes are very appealing for players and when they are combined with the casino bonuses, they create the perfect gaming experience.
Of course, someone has to come up with the visual aspects of the games, paint the backgrounds, create the character design, and do the reel symbols. With the way this field is growing and the number of games that are coming out, you’ll have your work cut out for you.
Law Enforcement
Who says that you can’t stop crime with a pencil? You can. Someone has to create sketches of suspects based on eye witness testimony. While you might believe that police use software for this kind of thing, the truth is that they still rely on artists. If they don’t, you can try out for a job as a courtroom sketch artist. You know those drawings of court proceedings you see on the news or in the paper. Someone had to be there and do those. That could be you.
Presentation Storyboard Artist
While storyboard artists are mainly associated with the motion-picture industry, as people that in collaboration with the director map out how things will be shot, recently there’s been a whole different sector of work that has opened up for these artists. There are more and more conferences, events, speaking engagements taking place now than ever. People pitch all kinds of things in meetings, and salespeople rely on visual props. So, there’s a big market for drawing slides that will be used in power-point presentations.
