So after a lot of hard (and fun) work in development I’ve finally gotten fairly close to the end of my application development..or so I thought. I’m developing a game for Android (but that’s irrelevant to this post). Up until now, the images/drawables I was using were placeholders that took 5 minutes in MSPaint to create. So, now that I have a working game, I started trying to create a visually stimulating game interface. In doing so, I have come to realize that it is really tough, especially since I have virtually zero experience in image design. Ultimately, I’m now questioning the ability of my game to be successful without a polished game interface that I feel most users would expect nowadays.

Are there individuals willing to collaborate on an application? Is there a community of designers that are content to do work and in return receive only their name attached to an application? Am I sunk unless I want to fork over a pretty penny to a designer? What options do I have and where can I go to put the “illustrations in my book” so to speak?

Thanks.