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Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators
Create original artwork using any of a wide variety of media and techniques.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Use materials such as pens and ink, watercolors, charcoal, oil, or computer software to create artwork.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Integrate 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.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Confer with clients, editors, writers, art directors, and other interested parties regarding the nature and content of artwork to be produced.People already use AI for this at work
- 04Maintain portfolios of artistic work to demonstrate styles, interests, and abilities.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Market artwork through brochures, mailings, or Web sites.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Study different techniques to learn how to apply them to artistic endeavors.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Monitor 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.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Photograph objects, places, or scenes for reference material.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Model substances such as clay or wax, using fingers and small hand tools to form objects.Mostly human for now
- 10Create 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.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss36%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
43%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 63% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 70% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Model substances such as clay or wax, using fingers and small hand tools to form objects.
- 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.
AI tools for your work
Official connectors that let an AI assistant work inside the apps designers use. Each is made by the app’s own maker.