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Basicly this is just to double check to make sure we got everyone.

Account name: Wolfen Akari
Past experience: Private use art, Wolf Home pose color customs.
Programs: Photoshop Elements
Why you want to work at SandPaints: I have wanted to work for Sandpaints since I found the thread! I love to color linearts, and I can color a lot of things at once and get them done quickly.
Practice image provided:
One: http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj25/WolfenAkari/hiringedittemplateCOLORcopy.jpg
Two: http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj25/WolfenAkari/Dragonbabydemo02copy.jpg
Three: http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj25/WolfenAkari/Dragonbabydemo03.jpg
Four: http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj25/WolfenAkari/Dragonbabydemo05.jpg
Other examples (optional):
My personal character ref images:
My art: http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj25/WolfenAkari/WolfenAkaridragon.jpg
Not my art: http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj25/WolfenAkari/WolfmeREVISEDCOLORScopy01.jpg
How much time would you have for the shop?: I'm available every day during the afternoon and nights, and on the weekends. ^_^
How long did it/each one take you to finish?: About 20 minutes for the dragons, five for my wolf ref, and about 40 minutes to color my dragon ref.
Refered By: Myself






The extra images are both of my personal characters, the wolf line art is of my personal, spiritual self and the dragon is my own art. Please, do not steal these characters, it will make me cry.

Wolf lineart is copyright to it's maker, listed on the image.

Account name: Syaoran-Puu
Past experience: Netopir, Sentinels /SotfW , Silver Lining and Chipmunks are some of my latest experience. Most have died, or I simply grew bored of the lack of opportunities to hold and participate in events.
Programs: Photoshop CS3
Why you want to work at SandPaints: I love this store, I am a secret stalker half of the time but have stopped by a few times. The lineart is beautiful and I would love to test and improve my skills here.
Practice image provided: I have only done one sample because I was excited about entering, I shall produce more and edit this (hope that is ok).
Demon Dragon // Lineart Just incase you want to see how 'smooth' my edits are.
Other examples (optional): Riku // Cloud // Jack Sparrow // Chipmunks 1 // Chipmunks 2 // Ammy // Wolf.
How much time would you have for the shop?: It would depend on the week, I am a Science teacher so sometimes we have busy weeks. That said I have weekends, plus a couple of hours a night. I work quickly so I should be able to be very active. I would give clear notice if I needed a "hiatus", however I can not forsee one in the close future.
How long did it/each one take you to finish?: Sample one edits (lineart): 5 minutes
Sample one colouring: 60 minutes (lots of details in the scales)
Other (optional): I have had lots of experience setting up events in stores I have helped run raffles, treasure hunts, triva quizes, RP contests, Team contests and Auctions/Flatsales. I have lots of ideas that are "unique" that I would love to bring to the store in the form of events, and would even love to do lots of free events to encourage activity and to get a good hold on the lineart and the community of Sandpaint.
Refered By: Syaoran-Puu (myself)


Application UPDATE!!! (Page 21)
Just thought I would share the new features of my application form with you all.


Practice image provided:
Emo (For Miroke)
Night and Day
Alruna Rose
How long did it/each one take you to finish?:
Emo edits: 2 minutes
Emo colouring: 30 minutes
Night and Day colouring: 10 minutes
Alruna Rose edits: 25 minutes
Alruna Rose colouing: 10 minutes
Other (optional): I have experience of producing graphics, and would be more than willing to put these to use for any events and stuff that I help at for free. Here are a few new examples from Soquili [o1.][o2.] I can do lots of different style banners as well.

Account name: Mobster Goose
Past experience: A guest colorist for Jokoa` and a Full time colorist for Forest of Tranquility
Programs: Photoshop 7.0 and CS3 (lulz why do I still have 7.0? XD)
Why you want to work at SandPaints: The question is why WOULDN'T I want to work for SandPaints? XD For starters the shop is just amazing. I mean omg! The lines are just simply gorgeous! I don't think I've seen such great quality lines in some time. It's good to see that there are still some shops like this out there. Another is that I'm just itching to color these lines! Haha silly I know but they are so pretty~~!! <333 Third, I know I might not be the best colorist in the world but I can say that I have improved a lot over the past year. The shop Jokoa` that I work for has helped me so much in the improvement process. I love the lines and I love to color and edit them. I strongly believe that I will only improve even more coloring these lines as well since they really are that amazing and because I love them so much!
Practice image provided:
[1] [2] <- - there might be more XD And I might trash the second one. Idk. >: I know I want to get a heavy edit one in there P:
Other examples (optional): [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]
I dont know why I put so many samples up. owo;;;; I think it's because I find it hard to decide what exactly to use. XD
How much time would you have for the shop?: Haha I can actually tell you my class schedule for next semester if you wanted it. XD But when I'm not at school or at work(only like 2 days a week) I'm home on my computer. So any and all of my free time is spend on gaia to be honest. My time zone is in EST. Oh and pretty much every two weeks my friend comes back from her college so almost every 2 saturdays she steals me for the day. XD;
I consider Jokoa` to be on a hiatus since the owner and normal colorists arent there so the shop is kind of deadish. The Forest of tranquility one is slow to begin with so there isnt a problem there either.
How long did it/each one take you to finish?: I dont remember. ;w; After I finished the 1st one I realized I forgot to time myself. It didnt take me long though. owo;
Other (optional): For experience I can safely say I set up and ran 2 holiday events. Both were for Jokoa`. This past Halloween event and the last Christmas one. I did the best of my abilities holding an event without main mule access. I think we did pretty well despite the fact how I could change the main thread title. Thank god for event mules right? XDD I'm also about to set up a mini thanksgiving event and will be holding another christmas event. XD So more event experience is coming. <3
I also set up the Forest of Tranquility's Halloween event. I only set it up though, I didn't actually run it.
Since I held 2 holiday events I can say that I have held a variety of different things, from keeping track and updating raffle lists and pets, opening and closing and sniping guard watching auctions to holding several kinds of flatsales, games and the like as well. I don't think it makes a deference or not but I also helped create the guild for FoT. XD As in all the forums and whatnot. Actually... now that I think about it I think I technically created the guild. XD I believe I typed all the info in all the forums.
Refered By: Myself

Account name: EvilMadness666
Past experience: WitW
Programs: PhotoShop 7
Why you want to work at SandPaints: I love the dragons here but the main reason is that I want to practice and learn more tricks in photoshop

Practice image provided: Sample1 Sample2 Sample3
Other examples (optional): CYO for friend, CYO, my art, WitW1 WitW2
How much time would you have for the shop?: about 2-3 hours a day the only problem would be time of the day. I live at GMT+1 time zone.
How long did it/each one take you to finish?:
Sample1 15min
Sample2 15min
Sample3 25min
Refered By: sbuggy166

Account name: bobfredgeorge05
Past experience: none
Programs: Photoshop CS2 and CS3
Why you want to work at SandPaints: To develop a better skill of coloring.
Practice image provided: [1] [2]
Other examples (optional): [1] [2] [3]
How much time would you have for the shop?: I would have as much time as the shop would need of me.
How long did it/each one take you to finish?: It took about an hour or more for each of them.
Refered By: wren152 told me about the shop hiring.

Account name: Cyrenofthesea
Past experience: Worked at another shop for a little while (approximately two weeks) before the owner disappeared and the shop died. otherwise little to no experience. =3
Programs: Photoshop Elements 4.5. =3 Hope it works? XD
Why you want to work at SandPaints: Because sandpaints is amazing, and id have fun just coloring such beautiful critters. =3
Practice image provided:
One, Two, Three, Four

Other examples (optional): (a couple i did earlier today for another shop)
One, Two
How much time would you have for the shop?: A few hours every weekend would be dedicated directly to the shop, probably more than that, possibly ti,e on the weekdays too. =3 im on gaia almost once every day for at least half an hour.
How long did it/each one take you to finish?: Its written beside them x3
Refered By: Myself. xD Cyren of the sea

Account name: Manda
Past experience: I own and color/edit for My Little Pony. I'm also a colorist at Cheetah!Run. Have guest-colored before for Walkers Glade, plus a smattering of other small shops here and there.
Programs: Right now, I'm using Adobe CS4. Also have openCanvas 4 Plus, which I use for some of the custom shading on my heavily edited Ponies
Why you want to work at SandPaints: I adore the lineart, for one thing~ Also, this place just seems like a really cool shop and I'd love to have some other lines to play with and be able to edit from time to time (Cheetah!Run doesn't allow many edits XD; )
Practice image provided: [x][x][x][x][x] .... The last two are edited, but I didn't shade any of them, per instructions. XD; Down below, though, you will see edited/shaded ponies. I also made the shading templates for my un-edited ponies and did the lineart for a couple of species~

Other examples (optional): [x][x][x][x] ((line-edits/template by me)) [x][x] (( both of those, lineart and templates in full done by me )) [x] (( normal lines, template by me )) [x][x][x] (( cosplays, custom shading ))
How much time would you have for the shop?: Mostly, I work during the week but if needed I could do simple things on weeknights. Most shop-stuff gets done over the weekend. For MLP, I pretty much have the shop set up now so work is spread out over a lot of colorists/guests so I don't have to do a TON. Mostly, I just have customs and breedings. We'll be doing something simple for Christmas/New Years there... and once the new year starts, we'll be having a FS each month with a different colorist per FS and some small thread-events and the like. Sometimes I run big shop events and those take a bit more time, but I should be able to keep up with both shops I think.
How long did it/each one take you to finish?: I think the 5 samples above took me abooout... 2-3 hours total~ For something more complicated than those and with templates to edit... likely no more than an hour/hour and a half to do one.

Other (optional): Ahm... see above? XD I run a shop of my own so I've got a lot of moderating experience and I've set up and run several events~
Refered By: Manda (saw thread title and came in)