There's a colorist choice master list for breedings. I think it would be nice to have one for customs as well.
Personally, I think all the artists here are very talented. I wouldn't mind having my custom quests made by any of them. Even having the spot on the form for who I want to color my Soq seemed silly.
To me, this would allow colorists to pick up extra customs when/if they have spare time and not just breedings. Often customs are less work than a breeding and there might be more inclination to pick a custom if there's a little spare time than to try for an extra breeding with multiple soq to color and all of their stages.
This would also give the junior colorists the opportunity to pick non-edited customs to make for people when they had the spare time.
And it would let those of us who are funded and waiting put our forms up with the chance of getting a cc spot, not just the random rolling.
For those who want a specific colorist, there's still the normal custom openings to try for the colorist of choice.
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Add a Master Colorist Choice Customs List
Allows colorists to pick extra customs after their requirements are complete.
Works just like the Breeding MCCL - each person may have one post [posts can be deleted by staff for inactivity and then a new post could be made when the person returns to activity].
Limit each person to only two custom postings at a time - they must have the money to cover the custom.
A Custom is easier than a breeding to pick up for quick extra work.
Would give more people a chance at a custom.
Junior colorists could pick unedited customs to work on, giving them the option of picking up a few customs as well.
Would still count as a custom, putting the person getting it on the two month custom time out.
Do not allow cosplays on the Custom MCCL to keep from having an issue with 'dibs'.
Anyone chosen would have up to 72 hours to get the correct trade in or lose the customs spot and still be on the custom time out waiting list as a penalty for having a custom request open and not paid for. Exceptions for this would be made for those who are on hiatus and have that information posted in their sig and/or their profile.
Colorists and Staff would police their own ranks to ensure there was no favoritism. [possibly only allow a person to win a MCCL custom once a year - still have normal custom opportunities, but not from the mccl to help keep the chance of favoritism down].
Add a date stamp to the forms which can be updated once a month. If the stamp hasn't been updated in 2-3 months, staff removes the form.
Forms can include info like newbie, or low luck [allows for links to random custom tries and fails].
There could be a stat page for the colorists, listing the kinds of things they enjoy when making customs so that people can keep that in mind when making their cc post.
This is a BONUS for the COLORIST when they WANT to take on more work to allow them to CHOOSE something they will enjoy. It's also a bonus for us, who would get to see more customs being made. PLEASE try and remember this, be respectful, and work on things to help make this more feasible, not demand more stuff for yourself or complain about how unfair it all is.