Where a drawing artist can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a drawing artist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Drawing artists express concepts by providing a drawn representation corresponding to the idea.
Also known as illustrator, street artist, artist, cartoon artist, visual art expert.
Professionals 30 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: artistic painter, 51%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A drawing artist needs 19 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- draw up artistic project proposals communication, collaboration and creativity
- perform ideation activities communication, collaboration and creativity
- select subject matter communication, collaboration and creativity
- create original drawings communication, collaboration and creativity
- develop visual elements communication, collaboration and creativity
- use traditional illustration techniques communication, collaboration and creativity
- select illustration styles communication, collaboration and creativity
- create digital images communication, collaboration and creativity
- use digital illustration techniques working with computers
- create sketches communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a drawing artist does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- illustrator 56% covered · difficulty 48.2
- street artist 53% covered · difficulty 51.8
- ceramicist 49% covered · difficulty 55.4
- digital artist 44% covered · difficulty 59.5
- video artist 40% covered · difficulty 63.3
- glass artist 34% covered · difficulty 67.8
- sound artist 34% covered · difficulty 67.8
- community artist 31% covered · difficulty 70.3
- photographer 19% covered · difficulty 79.3
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Drawing artist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a drawing artist’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.