Art directors plan visual presentations of a client's message in pictures and designs.
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. 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.