We need a player avatar

I had some old art from the previous version of the game, but it really did look dated:

After a couple more hours of searching I found these nice characters:

https://free-game-assets.itch.io/fantasy-game-main-heroes

She looks great and I think will fit in the game nicely.  After buying and downloading the spritesheet, I tweaked a couple of the animations so that I had the four that I would need: walk left, walk right, walk up, and walk down.