commercial artist

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   an illustrator who is supported by advertising

   Broaderillustrator

Questions about commercial artist

What does commercial artist mean?

commercial artist means "an illustrator who is supported by advertising".

Is commercial artist a common word?

commercial artist is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.