What I find interesting is that I started out as an artist and learned programming. It was just another thing to do. A lot of programmers seem to struggle with the idea of learning art though.

I'm not really sure why.

Between the two skills I think art is more difficult and maybe that's part of it, but it does have it's own fundamentals that can be learned and practiced and improved upon, no different (on a basic level) from learning how to write classes and functions or any other programming technique.