Please keep doing art. We need you so much more than another person slinging Javascript for adtech companies. Or at the very least go into design. Great designers can absolutely make or break a project, and don't need to know a single line of code.
Are you going to pay them six figures to keep doing art?
As a good designer, I hope so. I usually feel a good designer is worth way more than that.
Maybe I should try getting into that, it seems kinda soul deadening but it would be nice to make six figures off of my Illustrator skills for once. Where would I go to find people who want to pay me that kind of money?
Well the transition would be into UX design.
Just build something of a portfolio and start applying to junior UX roles. It will take a few years of experience, but senior creative directors can easily out-earn engineering directors.
I too encourage others to sacrifice their well-being for my vague sense of aesthetics.