I don't wanna tell you how to do YOUR game, but could you please put in the game the art for the early game enemies and gear? until now we don't have the "pair of bandits" or the image for most of the gears MC uses...
First - I started by saying "I don't wanna tell you how to do YOUR game", so take all this a a suggestion.
Second - I know he buys art for the game, and BECAUSE of this, wouldn't make more sense to buy FIRST the art for the most viewed/most played parts of the game? like the pair of bandits we fight since in-game day 4.
Third - wouldn't gear (very small images) cost way less than characters? therefore be able to get more done with the money available?
Fourth - I want to support him, I've been playing this game since the middle of last year and haven't loose a single update, but right now I'm unemployed so I just can't.
Not everything is a criticism...
Doing old art means I won't have current art and my recent approach to the game is I want to have sprites for the newest events. Whenever one of my artist will have some free time to fill one of the lacking sprites we are going to do it.
On icons work a separate artist who was feeling more comfortable with items like fruits/potions than an equipment itself, that's why those were handled first. He is slowly starting to work on equipment, so there will be more and more of them in time.
And those artist have their own lives, their own projects, they can only give me that much every month.