Will AI Replace Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators?

Use materials such as pens and ink, watercolors, charcoal, oil, or computer software to create artwork.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Integrate and develop visual elements, such as line, space, mass, color, and perspective, to produce desired effects, such as the illustration of ideas, emotions, or moods.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Confer with clients, editors, writers, art directors, and other interested parties regarding the nature and content of artwork to be produced.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Maintain portfolios of artistic work to demonstrate styles, interests, and abilities.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Market artwork through brochures, mailings, or Web sites.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Study different techniques to learn how to apply them to artistic endeavors.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Monitor events, trends, and other circumstances, research specific subject areas, attend art exhibitions, and read art publications to develop ideas and keep current on art world activities.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Photograph objects, places, or scenes for reference material.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Model substances such as clay or wax, using fingers and small hand tools to form objects.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Create sculptures, statues, and other three-dimensional artwork by using abrasives and tools to shape, carve, and fabricate materials such as clay, stone, wood, or metal.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Set up exhibitions of artwork for display or sale.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Render drawings, illustrations, and sketches of buildings, manufactured products, or models, working from sketches, blueprints, memory, models, or reference materials.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Shade and fill in sketch outlines and backgrounds, using a variety of media such as water colors, markers, and transparent washes, labeling designated colors when necessary.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Frame and mat artwork for display or sale.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Submit artwork to shows or galleries.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Submit preliminary or finished artwork or project plans to clients for approval, incorporating changes as necessary.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Collaborate with engineers, mechanics, and other technical experts as necessary to build and install creations.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Cut, bend, laminate, arrange, and fasten individual or mixed raw and manufactured materials and products to form works of art.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Provide entertainment at special events by performing activities such as drawing cartoons.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Develop project budgets for approval, estimating time lines and material costs.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Create and prepare sketches and model drawings of cartoon characters, providing details from memory, live models, manufactured products, or reference materials.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Create finished art work as decoration, or to elucidate or substitute for spoken or written messages.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Create sketches, profiles, or likenesses of posed subjects or photographs, using any combination of freehand drawing, mechanical assembly kits, and computer imaging.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Trace drawings onto clear acetate for painting or coloring, or trace them with ink to make final copies.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Apply solvents and cleaning agents to clean surfaces of paintings, and to remove accretions, discolorations, and deteriorated varnish.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Collaborate with writers who create ideas, stories, or captions that are combined with artists' work.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Brush or spray protective or decorative finishes on completed background panels, informational legends, exhibit accessories, or finished paintings.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Teach artistic techniques to children or adults.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.