If he can not pixel art for shit, but has a burning in his crotch to develop the vidya?
You do what I did, and arbitrarily restrict yourself to a limited set of options that force you to be creative within the restraints of your personal ability.
Little 4 Eyes was created as it is for two main reasons. First, I was tired of having large grandiose project ideas that I had little prospects of completing given my everyday time constraints - so I forced myself into a very simplistic design and fought every urge to increase it's complexity. Secondly, I hate having to produce so many assets (art, sound, etc) for the more "beautiful" games (or seek assistance from others to produce them) - so I deliberately chose something simple and restrictive enough that even I couldn't run out of motivation and get too lazy to finish spriting it.
8x8 pixels x 2 colors (for actors, transparency doesn't count since it's on a white background anyway). I dare you! And, if you want to increase the scope of your restrictions to include more colors - it's not like you wasted a lot of effort, right?
Or you could use my tileset, hah.