[RodgerTheGreat]

I'm a programmer and an artist- my art is mostly done in traditional media like ink, which I consider close enough to paint for comparison. If you pore over my photobucket (http://s280.photobucket.com/home/RodgerTheGreat/index) you'll find a blend of my drawings and screenshots of projects I've worked on.

I think part of this comes from my interest in video games. If you find yourself working as a one man show you'll quickly start developing skills with pixel art (or modeling and texturing if you work in 3D), much as programmers interested in webdev frequently start to pick up skills in graphic design. It would be nice to collaborate with other people and outsource some of these skills, but at the end of the day the best way to get precisely the results you have in mind is to be able to build every component of a project.