They illustrate magazine and newspaper articles. Their work can involve drawing, sketching, painting, lettering, and retouching photos, making charts, designing logos. Illustrators, including medical and scientific illustrators, illustrate articles for professional publications and books. Fashion illustrators specialize in drawings of children's, women's, and men's fashions. Cartoonists draw newspaper comic strips, political cartoons and comic books.
Animators draw a series of pictures that are put onto film to make animated cartoons.
Commercial artists prepare illustrations and designs for ads and displays. They illustrate magazine and newspaper articles. Their work can involve drawing, sketching, painting, lettering, and retouching photos, making charts, designing logos. They work closely with printers and typesetters. Graphic art technicians work in all phases of printing and graphic arts, including typographical layout, lithography, photoengraving and other graphic reproduction.