Looking for 16x16 side view art/sprites

Looking for 16x16 side view art/sprites

I'm making a little open source demo (www.shadowtavern.com/wizzard), and although I have some placeholder art, I am in need of something that is either:

1) something not ripped (the player character)

2) better than my poor art attempt (everything except the player character)

I'm aiming for a classic 80's gaming type artwork, so a biped player character, and then, well, whatever is not the character - weirder and odder, the better - this is why I have chomping apples and walking gun robots. So whatever takes your fancy!

Oh, and the more colourful, the better :)

Restriction: everything is a maximum of 16x16, and this has now caused me a headache - the smallest walking characters I find here are 16x18 - 2 pixels too high!

For now, I'll settle for a player character, all I need are three side profile poses - stand, walk and fall/jump, but if people are feeling creative, that would be great!

If you have any questions, please ask! :)