Hi /agdg/, I'm a competent programmer and I feel fairly confident in my ability to make a game by teaching myself various engines through tutorials online. I also have a couple of ideas for games which I think could be interesting.
Trouble is, I am no artist. In fact, I'd argue I'm one of the worst people you could pick to make art. I can just barely scrape together some passable environment tiles, but I just cannot do character design, art direction, etc.
What resources are there that I can use? I've tried searching for sprite databases, and although the one in the sticky seems alright, I'd like to have a large variety to choose from if possible (I understand that this is difficult given that I'm too dumb to make my own art). Are there any other fairly sized websites hosting sprites that you don't have to pay for/are dirt cheap?
Thanks for your help.
PS: In case you're interested, the current project I'm planning on building is a kind-of single player, top down RPG with a Star Trek kind of thing. You play as a ship commander and have interpersonal relationships with your crew which affects their ability in combat, out-of-combat events, etc. I'd like to make it somewhat freeform so you can be a pirate, law enforcer, diplomat, miner, trader, etc. This image is my sketch for the combat window and is approaching the limits for what I'm capable of producing graphically in GIMP (ships are plagiarised from google images)