For this reason painters hardly call themselves eshi, but they often call themselves 'ekaki' (a painter) or 'eshi no naka no hito' (literally means "a person inside eshi") instead.
よって絵師自身が「絵師」と名乗ることはほとんどなく、「絵描き」「絵師の中の人」などと自らを呼んでいることが多い。