A Mycena Cave artist creates art assets for the site which can include art for site events and activities, coat and item sets for monthly or seasonal release, sprout, custom, or edit queue orders, and game-related art. Much of the time, artists are creating either equippable items or unedited or edited pets. Artists are carefully selected based on their experience, artistic ability, ability to execute the Mycena Cave style, and on conduct and professionalism. Artists are expected to create art contributing to the overall feel and look of Mycena Cave, and extending it with their own personal and professional touch to the site.

At this time, we are looking for general artists with excellent communication skills who are interested in helping out in various different areas, including queue and event artwork. A willingness to collaborate on projects with other artists is also preferred.

Listed below are our expectations for a Mycena Cave artist:

• Artist must be at least 18 years old
• Artist conducts themselves in a professional manner
• Artist exhibits confidence with their artistic ability
• Artist responds to and incorporates critique into their work
• Artist has the time and the motivation to work on Mycena Cave regularly
• Artist meets deadlines and follows instructions
• Artist communicates effectively and professionally with Mycena Cave players and staff
• Artist is willing to use echoes, staff forums, and staff discord to communicate with staff
• Artist is friendly and gets along with Mycena Cave players and staff
• Artist keeps staff-only information in confidence
• Artist mimics the Mycena Cave style willingly and effectively
• Artist uses SAI, SAI2, Photoshop Creative Suite, or Clip Studio Paint Pro/Ex
• Artist is familiar with clipping, masking, layer effects, group folders, and .psd and .png file formats

A site artist has access to a variety of art-related tasks consisting of different levels of creative input from the artist. Coat and item creation will form the bulk of an artist’s weekly work. Periodically, an artist will have an opportunity to create other, miscellaneous site art and graphics as needed during events and activities. Some art tasks allow for artistic freedom—for example, designing an Out of the Shadows set is usually done by the artist who claims the slot. Other art tasks have more specifications—for example, an artist may take a custom order with a mock-up attached, and the artist strives to make the custom to those specifications.

An ideal candidate will be flexible and industrious, willing to collaborate with the team to meet artistic goals and often balancing multiple projects at a time. Creation of event, seasonal, and queue related work will have hard deadlines which will need to be met. In addition to artistic ability, effective time management will be a valued skill in a potential candidate.

 

Before you apply, be sure to ask yourself why you want to be a part of the Mycena Cave team. While Mycena Cave is a fun hobby for many of you thinking about applying, it’s important to realize that joining the staff team would lead to a dramatic change in the way you interact with the site and community, making it much more like a job — and as with any job, there are both positives and negatives to consider.

• Artist will bring their coat and item ideas to life
• Artist will be matched with a staff artist mentor to help guide them and integrate them into the team
• Artist will receive compensation per completed task as an independent contractor of Mycena Cave (see sample compensation rates here)
• Artist will become part of a close-knit staff team
• Artist will help glitch and Myla make informed decisions about site policies and site directions

• Artist may feel a strain on relationships with non-staff friends because they will know information that they can’t share
• Artist may feel more stressed because they may have Mycena Cave art deadlines on top of a busy schedule
• Artist will be held to a high standard of conduct. This includes forums, chats, and echoes, as well as anywhere else they are recognizable as part of the Mycena Cave staff
• There is an increased likelihood of being a target of harsh off-site critique by the community because the artist is more visible

Our hiring process is broken down into several steps:

 

Please complete your application here. All applications must be received by the end of the day on August 31st (23:59 Server Time).

IMPORTANT: In order to keep the application process as fair as possible, please do not post or otherwise show off the contents of your application during the initial application period to community members or staff publicly or privately. Once we have posted that we’ve moved to the application round two, submissions may be shared.

You can review the content of the application below, but you will need to complete the application using the Google Form. Any applications received via other means will not be looked at.

Feel free to ask any questions you may have regarding our application process or expectations in this thread! You may also echo Myla with questions.

Can a joint account apply / Can two potential artists file a joint application?

We require that applicants apply as separate individuals. A player from a joint account may apply, but we do require that staff not have joint accounts and so the applicant would need to separate into their own account at the trial artist phase.

What does the full application timeline look like?

We expect that we’ll be selecting trial artists in early October. That gives applicants a full month to apply to round one, two weeks for round two, and two weeks for round three with some extra time between the rounds for the selection process.

Do I need to be an active member of Mycena Cave to apply?

No, though applicants should be willing to make it a part of their routine since we expect staff to log in regularly.

 

Good luck to everyone applying! I’m really excited to see who joins the team. ouo

Yeah good luck, I would probably attempt if it wasn’t thank to my art-laptop showing colors off ( screen got an odd blue hue to it o matter what I do to light and color settings making it hard to draw something that doesn’t look bad on other screens ) ^^;

Good luck to all applicants! ^-^