Don't let Spyder deceive you; he absolutely loves me. I am definitely not a visual artist though, my MS paint work is worse than big dog Wu'Tang over there.
rollin5k once drew an awesome image for one of my RP threads:
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Aeoleoana (vowels) is a tremendous artist and created a lot of great sigs back in the day, i know she used to do some work for hire. Give her discount code FILBUSLUVSU
Also, Alexnoshinku draws some pretty nice anime style stuff.
Good luck pal!