Overview

This degree educates the students to become artists and to follow other practices that are aligned with the making of art. A Bachelor of Vocational of Fine Arts degree will often require an area of specialty such as acting, musical theater, ceramics, computer animation, creative writing, dance, dramatic writing, drawing, fiber, film production, visual effects, animation, graphic design, illustration, industrial design, visual arts, technical arts, interior design, metalworking, music, new media, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, stage management, or television production.

Career Scope

• ◉ Teacher : A candidate can choose to be an Art teacher in a school or an Art professor in a college. As a teacher/ professor, a candidate can train students in developing artistic techniques. However, for this profession candidates usually need to obtain an additional B.Ed degree (for school teaching) or a doctorate degree (for college teaching).


• ◉ Visualiser : A visualizer is a person who assists art directors in producing quick and high-quality artwork for presentation. A visualizer usually works in advertising agencies and helps in raising the bar on the quality of creative output for brands.


• ◉ Commercial artist : A commercial artist is a person who is employed to express the ideas of a client or employer. A commercial artist creates designs, computer graphics, video art, graphs, illustrations, etc. to make products or ideas more appealing and presentable to the public.


• ◉ Art director : An art director is a person who is responsible for the visual style and images in newspapers, magazines, and movie and television productions. An Art director usually works for advertising agencies and public relations firms. S/he creates the overall design and directs others who develop artwork.


• ◉ Story-board artist : A story-board artist has the responsibility of creating storyboards for ad agencies and film productions. The artist visualizes and sketches frames of the story. Storyboard applications that are typically used by artists are Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Storyboard Pro, and so on.
• ◉ Illustrator : An illustrator is an artist who creates two-dimensional images for industries such as fashion design, books, magazines, manuals, websites, etc. An illustrator uses various techniques to create visual effects such as the richness of colour.
• ◉ Curator : A curator is basically the manager or keeper of a cultural heritage institution such as a museum or a gallery. A curator has the basic responsibility for the acquisition, care, display, and interpretation of different artworks. A curator is also responsible for implementing and managing art exhibitions.
• ◉ Fabricator : A fabricator typically works in an art fabrication studio and provides services related to the production of technically difficult artworks.
• ◉ Cartoonist : A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in drawing cartoons and works for both print as well as electronic mediums. A cartoonist may work for different print publications such as newspapers and magazines. Some cartoonists may also work for television and films where they prepare model drawings and sketches of characters and also draw special effects for animation projects.