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Your work can be featured in the Tumblr Radar!

Want to be featured on Radar (to the right of your dash on desktop), Staff Picks, the Explore page, and the Tumblr login page? The radar blog supplies these places with art from across Tumblr, ensuring you, the creator, get the credit and adoration you deserve. What are you waiting for?

🚨Here's how to get featured🚨

Submit your image (art, photography, crafts, anything you've created) along with a link to your original post of the image on Tumblr. Please make sure you are logged into your Tumblr account before submitting.

Submissions must be your original work. If we can’t easily tell whether or not the work belongs to you, we won’t share it. Submitting a post from your art side blog? Totally cool! Just mention that in your submission.

Images should be at least 500px wide (no blurry pics, please).

No text posts, please! We can only feature images and GIFs. 

Because the Radar reaches an international audience, we don’t feature art that heavily depends on text. 

No gore, violence, or body horror, please! And we’ll be very careful to feature anything that might squick folks out (like bugs, or bones, or clowns).

Images should adhere to our Community Guidelines.

Please know that:

It might take a while for your work to be published. Please be patient.

Not all submissions will be published, and we can’t answer when or if your submission will be published to Radar.

We may share your work on Tumblr’s verified social channels (Facebook, Twitter, etc.). We will always credit you as the artist and tag your respective handle(s) where provided. By submitting your work, you agree to have your work featured on radar.tumblr.com and potentially across our social channels, with proper credit, of course!

bumblebees are going extinct and i think now is a time to let everyone know that pesticides aren’t the way to go. there are infact alternatives to pesticides that are cheaper and safer.

like caffeine! bees love the smell of caffeine, and it doesn’t hurt them. however every other dangerous bug is repulsed by the smell and wont eat your plants.

it’s that simple! it’s that fucking simple! all you have to do is get some coffee beans or whatever. put it in a cup. put some water in it. put it in a spray bottle. boom! that’s all!

What you’re experiencing is normal. Freelancing work tends to come in waves. When all that sweet cash is flowing in, thank the freelancing gods and stick it in a savings account. When work dries up, use that money to support yourself while keeping productive.

Some ideas for the dry spells: Sign up for some figure drawing classes. Give yourself a small series of personal illustrations to complete. Put together a zine with some friends. Update and streamline your website. Send out a quarterly postcard mailing. Research finances for freelancers. Take an online class.

As has been stated on this blog multiple times - the publishing industry works slowly, and sometimes it takes ADs months or years to find the right project for you to work on. It’s not a matter of whether they “like” you or not.

The only thing you can do in the meantime is continue to improve your work and promote yourself. In the long term, as you continue to build a reputation and steady clients, work may even out and become more predictable.

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Some sample pages from Andrew Loomis’s series on how to draw comics, 1939-1961, concerning perspective and composition. (The changes in font and layout stem from the fact the pages come from different prints.)

I tried to collect the most useful pages, but of course I’m limited to only 10 images per post.