This comprehensive and verified employer competency list was developed from a modified DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) process involving business, industry, labor, and community agency representatives from Ohio. This competency list contains 16 units (with or without subunits), competencies, and competency builders that identify the occupational, academic, and employability skills needed to enter the field of commercial art. Within the outline are three levels of items: core (required, the basis for state vocational competency tests); advancing (needed to advance in an occupation); and futuring (needed to enter and remain in a given occupation 3 to 4 years from now). The units cover the following: (1) professional behavior; (2) safety procedures; (3) basic laboratory skills; (4) business forms; (5) basic drawing skills; (6) media exposure; (7) design; (8) hand lettering; (9) layouts; (10) production; (11) computer art; (12) screen printing; (13) specialized functions; (14) photography; (15) self-marketing; and (16) employability skills. (KC)