Top Professions in Art
Love Art? Create a career out of it! Read on to know how.
I love art. I know art. For as long as I can remember. From age 2.
I was never interested in sports. I wasn’t interested in studying. I wasn’t interested in singing or dancing. I loved reading books and I loved art.
I wanted to be either a painter or a fashion designer or an author when I grew up.
But you know what the sad part was, art was not a profession in India. It still isn’t considered a profession. Maybe by people in my generation but definitely not even by one generation above mine.
So, let me tell you all something. Love drawing, sketching, sewing clothes and sculpting? You can be a professional designer or an artist! You don’t have to be an engineer or a doctor if you don’t want to. But you might have to update your skills a little bit.
Love Sketching/Drawing/Painting?
Awesome! Keep doing it! Sketch, draw or paint as many pictures as you can.
When you just start doing it, copy someone’s art. Trust me, it is okay.
Next, try the same but modify it the way you want to and add your personal style.
Next, sketch or paint everything you lay your eyes on.
Now, go sit in a room and draw anything that comes to your imagination.
Practice. Practice. Practice. And save all your sketches. Don’t throw them or give them away. It is not free!
Do you know what you can study to become?
Movie/game layout artists
All that you see on top are done by layout artists. Yes! They work for Disney. You can work for Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks, EA and other such animation and game industries. Cool, right?
Comic book artists
Now we all grew up reading Archies comics, Tinkle Digest and Marvel comics. Don’t you wish you could make those characters come true with your art?
Now add some digitization to your art. Create art on computer using tools such as Adobe Photoshop and what can you become?
Graphic Designers
You can work by creating movie posters, event posters, book covers, newspaper ads, magazine pages, logo designers and the areas you can be a graphic designer in is limitless.
Photo editor
You can makes images look flawless and imaginative! You can work as a photo or video editor in movies, photo shoots for magazines, newspaper, wedding, graduation and again the areas are limitless. Just learn Adobe AfterEffects, Premiere Pro or Final cut Pro for editing videos.
You know those gazillions of apps and websites coming out? You know who can design them? You! Yes you!
UI/Product Designer
Join a program to learn graphic design, color theory, layout design, design principles and much much more and you can be a UI or a Product Designer in a company like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Uber, Tesla and basically any company you want to work in.
Because it’s not just software developers who get jobs everywhere and who get paid a lot, Product designers do too.
And you thought art couldn’t be a career, eh!?
Animator/VFX Artist/ 3D Modeler
Learn Autodesk Maya, Houdini and other video graphic tools with/without a bit of coding and you could be an animator, Visual Effects artist, Computer Graphics person. You can make animation and Sci-Fi movies, games and cartoons.
Painter
And it is pretty obvious that you can be a painter. The different kind of paintings you can learn are: charcoal, oil, watercolor, acrylic, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Tanjore, glass, fabric, pot and I am sure there are many many more. You just need to join a school and learn it professionally.
And..
Fashion Designer
You can design clothes, shoes, bags, accessories. For men, women, teenagers, kids. No matter what industry rises or fails, the fashion industry is just going to go higher and higher as people are getting more fashionable everyday. It is not just an essential anymore. It is a trend. A class. So, get styling!
Industrial Designer
We use products. Products run our lives. From a tooth brush to a car, you can design anything you want to. You might need to know physics and maths but hey there are products where you don’t have to. You just need your imagination. Like building toys and sculptures. You do need to have a sense of shape, size and structure but that’s what school is for.
Architect/Interior Designer
Every damn person needs a roof over their head. No matter how rich or poor, big or small, lavish or simple. You can design houses, buildings, offices, museums, parks, theme parks, stores, theaters, bus stations. Phew!
The moral of this article is, ART IS EVERYWHERE! Art can be a career, it can provide gourmet food for your stomach, glass roof over your head and a prada cloth over your body.
You just need to explore and stop thinking art as just a hobby.
Recommend this article if you liked it and if I feel people found it useful, I will make detailed and more informed articles for each of the above sections. Hey I might even have interviews from professionals who do the above things.
All the above images are from Google images. None of it is mine.
Good luck! Get Artsy!
