Hey, people... Youre getting something wrong here. While MS Paint is *hard* for classical art, it is very good and very handy for pixart. And this is example of (very food, I must say) pixart. Also, drawing tablet isn't changing much, because you're mostly working on actual pixels...
Paint is as good as any program it's just more time-consuming
Not even a little. You can make some really cool stuff in it if your patient but it doesn't compare to GIMP, photoshop, or any other few hundred dollar graphic design program.
These are really nice and i could see them being used as game art.