I'm currently working on Westward, a multiplayer 2D online game where the players have to collaborate to conquer and settle a continent. Here is the link to a still very basic yet functional demo .

I seek the help of artist(s) to help define the artistic style of the game. At a high level, this would involve deciding between pixel art, "hand drawn" or other possible styles, and to try to find a "tone", a "vibe" that should be felt throughout all the visual assets. At a lower level, it would involve deciding how to express this vibe, deciding on how the buildings should look, the characters, the scenery, the battle system, the UI, and all other visual aspects of the game, working out the details, the colors, the scales, etc.

To be clear, I'm not looking for someone to make all the visual assets yet, I seek someone to make a few drafts to help decide how they should all eventually look! (But obviously, the person(s)
helping me at this stage would be first on the list for making them down the line.)

In practice, I'd like to collaborate with someone to make two or three template pictures which would feature several different elements of the game. A kind of style palette representing samples of game elements in the chose style. For example, a scene representing a few characters and buildings together, another scene representing a battle as it may look like in the game, another one representing some menus, etc. Fake screenshots if you will. We could iterate on these templates until we converge to a nice, distinctive and coherent style for all game elements.

These templates could in turn guide the creation of all the actual, final assets when the time comes. They could also be used to express what the game will be about and will look like, long before the demo reaches that point.

I have already started collaborating with an artist on some assets, but I'm eager to collaborate with multiple persons in parallel on this, to explore different styles and find exactly what I'm looking for.

If you are interested, get in touch and we can work out the details! If it's not quite clear, feel free to let me know and I'll try to clarify.
Btw, if what I'm asking has a specific name, I'd love to know it!

A short reply to say that I have received a lot of proposals. I'll reply by e-mail to every single one of them but it may take me a day of two. :)  If you don't get a reply after more than a week, I may have missed it, feel free to contact me again!