Hi PakeyShakes, 

If you're looking for Unpaid opportunities you might have better luck in the "Unpaid Work" section for job postings.
https://pixelation.org/index.php?board=14.0

Good luck on your search for an artist! 

As an aside I found that giving the shadows an angle, but making that angle different to the angle of the grass, helped "lift" the leaves from the surface.

I like the shapes of your grass leaves!

I'm pretty new to this myself, but I'd say you probably want to increase the dynamic range of the palette. Get some brighter greens in there, and some darker greens. Same for the stone.

With some darker greens you can start to place shadows under the leaves. This will make them pop out and look more 3D. With a brighter green you can add some points of highlight to emphasize the angle of the light source and give the leaves more substance.

I have a couple of questions:

 - What angle are we looking at this from? Directly above? At a 45 degree angle to the ground in the traditional RPG style?

 - Where's the light coming from?

Also, do you want to talk about the stone tile?

So I'm very new to pixel art. I've looked at a course or two on Udemy and I've been fiddling around with background tiles for a while (the usual: grass, rocks, that kind of thing).

I felt like I was making some headway, so thought I'd have a go at some character animation.

This is my first attempt at a spaceman. He's small as I want the pixels to look chunky in the final game. This cycle contains run, jump and idle. The animation frames were inspired by the walk and jump cycles in a Preston Blair book on cartoon animation (you can find the cycle images all over Google as well.)



This is an earlier iteration without shading, and just the run cycle.



So questions:

 - It all looks very simplistic, and the shading seems uneven between the head and the body. How can I better shade the character to be more space-suit-like? (I'd like to keep a slight orange tint to the player, as the majority of the environment will have an orange hue.)

 - The game concept involves the suit sometimes being empty, controlled remotely by an AI (in game of course. In reality the player is always in control.) In this case, a "breathing" style idle animation doesn't really make sense. What else could I use for an idle animation to add interest? Breathing seems to be so ubiquitous.

 - I'm not overly happy with the "Jet Set Willy" style side-on idle. What kind of poses are there that aren't the "overly dramatic 45 degree to the camera posed" look?

Hi, my name is PakeyShakes and I am looking for an unpaid 2D artist to work on a horror game I am currently making. If I am able to, I may pay you a small sum.
 
Here is an example of what you may be drawing for the game, something like the art style of the 2016 hit game 'Stardew Valley', click the link for the example:

Character - https://stardewvalleyinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Skirt-Dress-For-Farmer-Mod3.jpg
Food - https://stardewvalleywiki.com/mediawiki/images/3/34/Collections_%28Cooking%29.png
Tools - https://stardewvalleywiki.com/mediawiki/images/f/fb/Axe.png , check out this page (https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Tools) for some more tools.
Environment (Outdoor) - https://stardewvalleywiki.com/mediawiki/images/6/60/North_town_villager_pathing.png
Environment (Indoor) - https://www.destructoid.com/ul/345495-review-stardew-valley/tavern-noscale.jpg

If you accept this offer, you may be working with me for a month (maybe even less if you're quick at drawing). After that month, I will keep working on the game without you but I will use your art for the game that you made. The game will take about 6 months to make, but I don't want to tire you out, so I'll just be working with you for a month and use your art from that point.

I will credit you in the credits at the start of the game and the end.
Your portfolio doesn't need to be the most impressive thing, but I just want something similar to the art style I just informed you of. You don't even need a portfolio, but you need to prove that you can draw something like the Stardew Valley art style.

This will greatly improve your portfolio for other projects as well.

If you have any questions, please ask.
If you're interested, reply.

Thanks.