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It's no surprise you get no answers...

You don't offer compensation (that i can uderstand), no promise of an interesting work, classic gameplay, and who could ever want "exposure" from doing some bits in an ugly game ?

Honestly, that assests are ugly. Most people here are far better than you at "arting". Asking them to assist you on menial tasks within this style feels bordeline insulting :).

Put your pride aside, and offer freedom on the main part to the guy... Or do it all by yourself.

and find somehting interesting to do/say with the gameplay.

It's fine to ask artists to work within an existing style, since it reduces the amount of reworking old assets that the artist would have to do to get the game looking consistent. However, because it does impose an extra limitation on the artist, you have to be really sure that you really want the art style to be what it is now. In your case, I find it difficult to believe that you wouldn't be open to trying other looks for your game (unless you already have 90% of the art made).

Since you're not paying, I think you should expect that you'll likely end up working with multiple artists who each contribute a little bit instead of staying to the end, and who probably won't give you a consistent style even if you asked them to.

If you haven't already, you should make a full list of art that needs to be made, grouped in sections that must be consistent (for example, you probably want all the item-use effects to feel consistent and all the UI to feel consistent, but you could get away with the item-use effects not being in quite the same style as the UI). This would let you assign well-defined work to an artist in small, manageable batches. It'd also do wonders for measuring progress, and most people like knowing how well they're doing and how close they are to finishing.