How To Find a Job as a Visual Artist

First, you can sell your masterpiece online. Second, start your own mini-business and initially cater to your friends. In the beginning, you incorporate art into your friends’ daily needs and lives and they will soon spread the word to their friends.

An animator is a visual artist who designs multiple illustrations that will be created into movies or the like. You can find a job working in films, television, as well as online media production companies. Monster.com and Careerbuilder.com post job opportunities for animators online. Entertainmentcareers.net is also a good site to visit. The best thing about it is you do not have to be a graduate of a 4-year degree in animation; you just have to possess superb drawing and visual art prowess. The salary is good, and there are always opportunities everywhere.

If you can and know how to, creating your own line of anime or cartoon series will be an impressive addition to your resume when scouting for jobs. Post your resumes online, as there are many prospective clients who are looking for VFX or visual artists who will do certain jobs for them at a lower price. For many new VFX artists, this deal is already sweet as pie! You must be ready with samples of your work, as your client or your future employer will want to take a look at these. Have as much knowledge in as much software and equipment as you can, as the frenzy out there is very competitive. So go work on your skills while you are still scouting. Adobe After Effects, Lightwave, and Flash are just some of the software titles you should familiarize yourself with. Watch as many films as you can and critique them. Work with your skills as to what could have been done to make it a better film. Intern somewhere and test these skills. Internships might lead to a job. You can go to an art school like the Born Artist Academy, which also has workshops. This is good if you think you’ve lost your inner artist and want to regain it. Bornartistacademy.com is the site to really check out.

Then we go to your masterpiece itself. When you are looking for an artist canvas, you have to keep this in mind: Stretched Canvas VS a DIY stretch canvas. It can be expensive to do it on your own as a stretched canvas is stretched on a frame with some kind of gesso applied to it so you can paint on it immediately.

If you are a woman looking for inspiration from your co-woman artists, then you should check the works of Anastaise, Baldassare Castiglione, and Constance Mayer.

For more inspiration, you can check out the sites of Artist Gallery and Paint Artist. The former has lots of artwork that you can base your own upon. Nicolas Abraham, whose work is comparable to that of Picasso, Matisse, and Modigliani, has paintings of Runway Models, Opera Greats, and women and children.