This Is Crazyto Be A Graphic Artist

Gameglitch · Very bored Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 211

Read this job offer at the job bank for a graphic artist.
You have to do [i]all[/i] that stuff and go though [u]all[/u] that schooling, and pay [b][u]all[/u][/b] that money for the schooling just for 9 dollors an hour to start. Some one can be a manager at McDonalds in the same price range, and dont have to pay a red cent for all the schooling. There was one job offer that would only pay up to 10 dollars an hour.

Here is the link:

http://jb-ge.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/ShowJob_en.as...urce=JobPosting

To be a graphic artist, the pay don't seem all that great for all the stress you have to go though... Wink

infurno · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:30 pm Post subject:

I'm in collage for Design Technology Digital Design. Modle making and Exhibit design is the Big money maker they wan't PPl who do that kinda stuff. and Electronics is another big one.
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Fayore · Moderator Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 6195

$30,000 CDN per year? No thanks. :/
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fallenangel · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:12 pm Post subject:

Artists are at the bottom of the food chain because we put ourselves there. Artists are making the same wage they did 30 years ago when all other professions have gone up.

And it's entirely because artists are so eager to undercut each other and make art worthless. If everyone demanded to be paid what it's worth, there wouldn't be that problem. Instead, you've got artists willing to work for $5 an hour just to have a job and kids on the internet doing things for free, just creating a new generation of people who don't think art is a valid product.
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mevv · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:07 am Post subject:

So true. not many appreciate good art. what do they think, that it grows on trees. Someone has to make those images with their own sweat and tears. I try real hard to draw some of my art and expect to get what I deserve.

The only thing I don't ask to be paid for is making an avatar for someone. they're so easy to do and most are just made for some other image or official art work. Paying for that doesn't seem right to me.
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flcladd1ct · Member Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 45

Work in the art field is thankless, difficult, and you don't get paid squat.
People are never artists for the easy money. People are artists because we have a driving ambition to be. We *can't* do anything else and ever possibly be happy.
And as for the schooling and all the money and everything...well, sure, you could possibly teach yourself everything, sure. But when you're a professional artist you are selling a product, and that product isn't your art, its [b]yourself[/b]. That little slip of paper you get from your school of choice marks you as a "quality" product, it indicates that you are willing to do the work. Its not a new concept, after all way back when if you wanted to be an artist you had to apprentice with someone else, after all.
*shrug* And with some areas of art you really [i]do[/i] need to get that knowledge from somebody else, fields like animation or computer graphics that are changing and evolving constantly.