CALL FOR STAFF APPLICATIONS

Want to join the team of Redline Artists? Here’s how!

If redlining art seems like a fun and fulfilling experience for you, then you can apply to be one of the artists on the team! A Redline Artist will look at the submission box, choose an art piece that they feel comfortable redlining, draw their corrections on top of it, and then post it to the blog alongside the original. They can also reblog useful art reference posts to the blog or create tutorials and post them here!

This is a volunteer position, meaning that you will not be paid, and it means that your obligations to the blog are also voluntary. There’s no minimum-posts-per-month. If you apply and get in, you can redline whenever you have the time to do so, since you are the one offering up your advice for free.

In order to apply to be a Redline Artist, you have to have some prior experience in art. Read on if you think you might be interested!

• You must be at least 18 years old
• You need to have a tumblr account
• You need to have made at least 6 drawings/illustrations in the past 12 months.

In order to see if you’re a good fit for the Redline team, it would help us if you were to send us some examples of your work in an email. Please read the below instructions carefully - although your ability to read instructions does not make you a worse or better artist, it does help us decide whether you should be trusted to politely and maturely critique someone’s work.

If this all sounds good to you, here’s how to apply!

Please send us…

• A link to your tumblr where you have plenty of your drawings posted (doesn’t have to be your art tumblr, it can be personal, but make sure we can easily find your drawings)
• What area of expertise you feel is your strongest point (gesture drawings, cartoony things, realistic landscapes, etc)
• At least 3 ATTACHED examples of your work, including…
• A full-body drawing of a human
• A full-body drawing of any kind of animal
• A realistic drawing/sketch or study of something (traditional or digital) to show that you have a grasp on ‘baseline’ anatomy. (Read below for details)
• Your redline of ONE of the following drawings:

Attach examples of your art AND a redline of one of the drawings above, and…

*please write your tumblr username in the email subject!

At the moment we are also branching out into things like Twitter and YouTube, so your willingness to help out in those fields will also help out a lot! (However, this is in no way a requirement to apply, it’s just a nice thing to mention if you happen to have an interest in it.)

F. A Q.

Q: Do my example drawings all have to be realism?

A: No, not at all! They could be semi-realism or be leaning more towards an anime style or a cartoony style. However, they should show that you understand how the baseline anatomy works. So for example, drawing something like Jake from Adventure Time would NOT be good for showing us whether or not you can draw a dog. But if you wanted to draw Tramp from Lady and the Tramp, that would be adequate.

Q: Why do I have to include realism in my examples? That’s not my usual style.

A: Although we all have specific styles we fall back on, because this position requires the ability to help people with “standard” anatomy, we would like to know that you can go back to basics and give them help that is broad-range and applicable across a variety of media.

Q: Do the drawings have to be full-color?

A: No! They can be black and white or cleaned up sketches. As long as we can see it clearly, you’re good.

Q: Do all my example drawings have to be from the last 12 months?  

A: Nope! You can send us older examples. The only thing we ask is that you have drawn SOMETHING in the last 12 months. They don’t all have to match the description of the examples.

Q: Can my examples be nsfw?

A: The examples can have artistic nudity, but please don’t send us examples of porn. 

Q: Does my redline need comments?

A: Nope, just the redline is fine! We just want to see an example of how you should adjust/critique the work if you were to become a mod.

Q: What increases my chances of becoming a mod?

A: Being positive, professional, and putting your best foot forward!

Q: I sent an application email to the blog before and didn’t get accepted. Should I reapply?

Yes.

So, what are you waiting for?

Send all emails to: theredlinestation@gmail.com (emails to the old submission address will be ignored). We will review your application over the next few weeks and reply to your inquiry by our decided deadline.

We look forward to hearing from you soon!

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