I decided to go with Adobe Illustrator for my artwork. I am relearning the program, and so fourth. I will likely post things up here, and I welcome any sort of tips or etc. We all learn from each other, and I look forward to trying to grow with this community. It's just a lot to start with at first.
I spent last night playing more with building backgrounds so that mine didn't look so sloppy. I also learned to save things as PNG files for clarity sake which could be some of the sloppy pixels I saw or smears. We learn :)