If not, great. If you are, stop it – especially if you’re considering art school yourself. Nothing could be further from the truth.
There is always a need for art in our society.
Graphic designers will always be needed for corporations, entrepreneurs, musicians, and politicians who need branding (or rebranding), as well as filmmakers (for movie posters).
Digital media artists and web designers will always be necessary – the Internet will forever grow as long as new servers are being built; and entrepreneurs, corporations, schools, etc. will always need blogs and websites built, new social media accounts branded, and CMS (content management systems) built.
Also, thanks to our very vain culture, digital artists will always been in demand for photomanipulation for print publications (gotta have that “beautiful” cover shot). Vanity aside, they’ll also be needed thanks to our ever-growing self-publishing industry: indie authors need professional book covers to compete with the traditional market.
Traditional artists also have incredible value.
Skilled sketch artists are always in demand for storyboarding films and games, as well as helping our criminal justice system in identifying culprits.
And don’t forget the comic world. Pencilers, colorists, and line artists make comics the fantastic medium it is – they give the story its immersive body. The proliferation of web comics has increased that demand as well.
Painters are equally necessary in the film and gaming industry for matte backdrops, character design and prototype modeling, world/realm designs, and much more (just ask Yoshitaka Amano, official artist for the Final Fantasy series).
