WordNet
commercial artist
n. an illustrator who is supported by advertising
Usage examples of "commercial artist".
You were no good as a commercial artist, and you were no good as a serious artist, and you were no good as a husband or a father, and your great collection of paintings is an accident.
When he was thirty, he gave up a good job as a commercial artist and went down in the world, deliberately downward in income, prestige, and tension.
Gordon Meyers was a printer and a lithographer, Joanna was a commercial artist.
An amateur photographer or commercial artist with good processing equipment can make passable phony identification papers.
Pollock started life as a commercial artist and changed to real estate.
I wanted to try to be a commercial artist-not enough mobility to make it.