We're putting tentative feelers out to hire again, so we thought we'd toss up a thread and see what falls in!

At the moment we're looking for interest and may hire up to two colorists.
This thread will stay open until April 9th at 11:59PM EST.

Colorists:
All colorists hired from this thread will start as Guest Colorists, with the possibility to become full time later. These particular hires will start as coloring pets/familiars only, with the potential to color kin for limited opportunities on request, and with the potential of promotion to kin colorist down the line. All colorist work must be approved by blue before it is sent out, and Guest Colorists cannot do official edited work. Sometimes, Guest Colorists might be asked to contribute to major thread events, submitting on-theme pets for contests, raffles, dice games, or freebies. They will receive any applicable profits for their work, as well as staff credits that can be applied toward free pets/kin.

In the following post, we will offer tools necessary for applying to join our team!

COLORIST APPLICANT INFORMATION:

For the purpose of hiring, we're offering up two templates for you to play with: The Lynx and the Swan. Click their images below to download them for use:
These templates are very different from what most adoptables artists are used to: they do not merely use shading and multiply layers. Instead, layers must be recolored by hand and markings applied either with masks or the eraser tool. As such, we strongly suggest you use Photoshop, but other programs may work as well, so long as you can output your files to a .psd format.

More information about how to use the templates can be found in this post in our long-closed Color Your Own Event, where we go into the methods we use. You can also stop in on any of the artists' streams, and are welcome to ask questions during as to our process!

If people are looking for more help with their coloring, here's [uid]blue[/uid] being extremely nerdy while explaining how to do a bunch of things, including:

1) how to make palettes from a photo
2) how to make palettes using gradient map layers
3) how to unify colors in your kin
3) how to make layer masks
4) how to use/layer layer masks
5) gradients/ombres
6) making/cleaning up markings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFu-4eP ... e=youtu.be

It is important that you pick colors by hand and use our method.

It is impossible to get breedings to look right using the classic templated multiply layers method, so you must play with layer masks to be a colorist at Matope!

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In order to apply, you must take the templates in the post above, and make at least six samples. Ideally, we'd like to see two sets of three (three moths / three tortoises), where each set is based on a theme.

If you'd like a little inspiration, you can choose from the following themes for your kin, or pick one (or more!) of the following inspiration themes:

Crystal Gems
Paint Splatter
Topography
Goth Fashion

Any color palettes from this site

If you're interested in applying, please fill out and post the following form.
Please do not post it until you have completed samples.

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[size=180][b][color=blue]! COLORIST APPLICATION ![/color][/b][/size] 
[b]Your username:[/b] 
[b]Are you in our Discord?[/b] This is required for planning!
[b]Relevant experience:[/b] 
[b]Do you have reliable internet?[/b] 
[b]Are you familiar with Matope?[/b] 
[b]Samples:[/b] Two sets of 3, each on a theme, please, with the theme next to them!

! COLORIST APPLICATION !
Your username: SkylerKarashi
Are you in our Discord? Yes I am!
Relevant experience: I'm active in a few other shops as a participant, work as an artist in another shop run by Lirilei, and created a closed species of my own, working as an artist there. [Though it got no where near as big as Matope.]
Do you have reliable internet? Yup!
Are you familiar with Matope? I can admit that I'm still learning, butI think I've also learned a lot since starting. :3
Samples:
Color Palette!
Paint Splatter!
Goth Fashion!
Color Palette!
Color Palette!
Color Palette!

! COLORIST APPLICATION !
Your username: seru_ame
Are you in our Discord? Yep!
Relevant experience: I'm an illustrator, I make adopts for sale, and have been making pixel bases for myself to practice on for a bit.
Do you have reliable internet? Yes
Are you familiar with Matope? Fairly, I'd say
Samples:
Gothic Fashion
Gemstone
Palette from site provided
Palette from site provided
Topography + Palette from site provided
Paint Spatter + Palette from site provided

! COLORIST APPLICATION !
Your username: AstoriaFallen
Are you in our Discord? Yes!
Relevant experience: I'm a colorist in Soquili and I've colored in other shops in the past, this is my first experience with pixels.
Do you have reliable internet? Yes
Are you familiar with Matope? Familiar, yes. Def no expert though
Samples:
gothic fashion / color palette
paint splatter
topography
Color Palette
amazonite (gemstone)
color palette / paint splatter
color palette & gothic fashion
I was trying to do gothic and paint and it turned into a murder swan

! COLORIST APPLICATION !
Your username: Kalahari
Are you in our Discord? ya
Relevant experience: uhhhh fudging around with digital art for like.... 15 years now
Do you have reliable internet? ya!
Are you familiar with Matope? oh yeah
Samples:
Theme: favorite colors

Theme: color palette

Theme: color palette

Theme: color palette

Theme: color palette

Theme: pastels, a bit of topography

! COLORIST APPLICATION !
Your username: kuropeco
Are you in our Discord? yap
Relevant experience: 5+ years of coloring on Moonshop templates, 10+ years of coloring various Gaia pets, 6 years of coloring adoptables
Do you have reliable internet? yes
Are you familiar with Matope? no yes
Samples:

- crystal gem (angel aura quartz)
- just a cool color palette
- topography

- just a cool color palette
- just a cool color palette
- paint spatter (feat. Lisa Frank)

! COLORIST APPLICATION !
Your username: Fasti
Are you in our Discord? Yes
Relevant experience: I've been playing around with digital drawing programs for about 10-15 years. I like working with patterns and symetrical things. I have experience in coloring adopt bases and drawing my own adopts. I have a few years of experience with pixel art, nothing professional, just trying a little here, testing a little there. Here is the Link to my marktplace thread, otherwise I haven't had any experience with coloring pixel art bases until now.
Do you have reliable internet? Yes
Are you familiar with Matope? I've been here for 2 years, but I'm still finding things that are new to me.
Samples:

Color Palette
Color Palette
Color Palette

Color Palette
Color Palette
Color Palette & Paint Splatter
Gothic Fashion

! COLORIST APPLICATION !
Your username: LOLLI qAq
Are you in our Discord? Yeah
Relevant experience: 10+ years coloring in various Gaia B/C places, 5+ years dolling experience before that, and I like to learn new art styles so I'm constantly just making things
Do you have reliable internet? Yup
Are you familiar with Matope? I mean. Yeah?
Samples:
- Goth fashion
- Crystal gem (Amethyst)
- Palette

- Goth fashion
- Crystal gem (Pearl)
- Palette