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

−Already happening(5)

• 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.
• Use materials such as pens and ink, watercolors, charcoal, oil, or computer software to create artwork.
• Confer with clients, editors, writers, art directors, and other interested parties regarding the nature and content of artwork to be produced.
• 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.
• Create finished art work as decoration, or to elucidate or substitute for spoken or written messages.

~Within reach(11)

• Maintain portfolios of artistic work to demonstrate styles, interests, and abilities.
• Study different techniques to learn how to apply them to artistic endeavors.
• Submit preliminary or finished artwork or project plans to clients for approval, incorporating changes as necessary.
• Create sketches, profiles, or likenesses of posed subjects or photographs, using any combination of freehand drawing, mechanical assembly kits, and computer imaging.
• Develop project budgets for approval, estimating time lines and material costs.

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+Out of reach(12)

• Photograph objects, places, or scenes for reference material.
• Set up exhibitions of artwork for display or sale.
• Market artwork through brochures, mailings, or Web sites.
• Cut, bend, laminate, arrange, and fasten individual or mixed raw and manufactured materials and products to form works of art.
• 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.

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