Hello! I joined your site a little over a week ago and have so far fallen in love with it! My username is Void (#14766)

I've been playing various pet and game sites on and off for years, including neopets, gaiaonline, flight rising, subeta. I have not done any art for game sites themselves, but have always enjoyed these sort of games.

Sylestia has captured me in a way no other pet site has before, however. The breeding and battle system are by far the most satisfying i've encountered, and i've been more than enthralled with how various aspects of the game is handled, such as the ability to make new pets with easily accessible items (essences), the various mutations that change the personality and theme of a single species vastly, and the gameplay itself. I was pretty instantly hooked.

What excited me the most, however, is how open the staff are about taking mutation and gene suggestions, as well as allowing people to purchase custom mutations and genes which would be added for everyone in the game. I adore this system, i adore how everyone's contributions benefits the entire community instead of those who can just make it through a paywall (such as flight rising and subeta's custom item/pet features... I am not a fan). Being a kid who grew up with little money to spend on online games, I've come to deeply appreciate how accessible everyone is to everyone.

And so, I quickly submitted my mutation design for the spring contest within hours of it being announced.

http://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=10723&page=3#23

I was pretty saddened to see I could only submit one design for the contest, as I have many more.

I did some searching around on tumblr and came across the post Vella made to announce Sylestia was hiring. I was pretty excited by it!

Here is my portfolio.

http://nullverse.tumblr.com/

There is a link to my deviantart gallery if you would like to see more of my work.

I feel my personal strengths would be to design mutations and genes as well as human avatar clothes and accessories. I can also do pet work, such as designs and art, and if you need to give me "art tests" for anything, please request.

This portfolio is mostly personal work. All the character design is my own, save for the pokemon and starbound fanart, and the anthro fox commission.

I'm skilled with Photoshop and I understand the basics of how breedable pet systems render the generated pets with layers. If taught Sylestia's specific methods, I could easily adapt and learn. I have done 3D mesh and texture work for the game Second Life and I am educated on many different image-related terminologies and methods, such as TGA alpha masking, layered shadows and highlighting, PSD adjustment layers, etc.

Also I doubt it would apply to Sylestia, but i am also skilled in Blender and 3D-Coat, knowing how to build low-poly and mid-poly models (game-ready and optimized) and to unwrap UVs and rig meshes to animation skeletons.