Have a look on https://sketchmob.com/ , has many different artist with a variety of styles and price ranges. I use this site a lot. Source: over 1 year ago

If there's a particular artist whose style you like, see if they do commissions. Maybe try searching for the characters on DeviantArt to find an artist who already has a familiarity with the franchise. You can also get art done from sites like Sketchmob (though, you may need to find some reference photos to give the artist an idea of what you're thinking, I'm not entirely familiar with the procedure there). Source: over 2 years ago

What's more important is this beautiful work of art! We have an excellent piece by "mapo_tofus" on sketchmob.com of Lucina playing the clarinet. I essentially held an amino poll with 5 characters to potentially be drawn playing the instrument, and Lucina won, and I actually wanted Lucina to win anyway, although you might be disappointed when you find out who she won against. Source: almost 3 years ago

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Hell, games would still be made if there was no games industry at all. Free open source games are a thing. And there was a time, not so long ago, when people were just making experimental games for fun and releasing them for free. Games like Spelunky and Sky Rogue started out as free games made by hobby coders. Cave Story and all the Kenta Cho shooters are still free to this day. Source: about 3 years ago