Question, how do you do the image where it's: click on me! Because thats fasinating and I wish to know! If thats alright.
Thank you! It’s quite simple, actually!
All you have to do is draw the main part of the illustration with white and leaving the background transparent. I will note that this trick doesn’t work with tumblr’s dark themes, but that’s not really something I can solve. Most people use the default theme, so it should be fine.
First, do your drawing! To make your life easier, put a dark colour background on a separate layer, I used dark grey. This is so you can actually see what you’re drawing.
You can see I have some “grey” areas that I used as shading. It is, in fact, not grey, but white, on a separate layer at a lower opacity (about 70% here). This is because any colours other than white will show up and ruin the surprise.
Next, after you’re done with your drawing, hide the dark grey background layer and export your drawing as a transparent .png file.
Finally, resize the image so that it is 540 pixels wide. This is because bigger or smaller images will cause Tumblr’s compression to leave some artifacts around the image and that will look ugly (not to mention, ruin the surprise.)
(screenshots of what 1000 px wide vs 540 px wide images look on tumblr’s dashboard.)
That’s all! Now you’re ready to post cute lil surprise images :)