Good luck. Don't be afraid to ask questions of other digital artists; I've found that many are happy to help and advise.

Wish you the best of luck and God bless Alex.

Well for line work I've found Paint Tool Sai is great as it runs all lines as vectors that you can adjust at every anchor point.

get a glove to use with your tablet

What kind?

3 fingered gloves?

Hes talking about a silk glove. I have one, for my drawing monitor. Its great! It can help your hand mive across the tablet it glides real smooth and it minimizes the mess on your tablet.

Heck it allows me to make something like this
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/46071482/

Heres where you can buy one
https://www.amazon.com/Parblo-Two-F...../dp/B018VASU3O

digital art is fun - get some software like Krita (which is free) which works great with stylus/digitizer drawing

oh and make sure to map one of the buttons on your stylus to CTRL-Z, so you can undo bad strokes

Ouch

Yes! More Alan and chip soon. Soooonn....

Wow!
You really like those two!

They're a good couple

My vote is for Clip Studio Paint. The I terrace is very similar to Photoshop, bit everything is customizable- *everything* . Put menus or tool pallettes where you want them. Combine tools. Create your own custom brushes. Download thousands online. It does the best job I have seen in reproducing traditional materials to the point it would be difficult to tell the difference between pure digital and scanned traditional.

I have a Cintiq and love it. Picked up the One recently for doing digital art at cons, so will see how that plays out.

A glove can be useful to help glide over the surface, bit these displays also get warm as they run from the backlight. Not uncomfortable, but you do notice, so a think cotton glove might help if you find that to be an issue.

A hand held programmable key remote can greatly help. I have the Tab Mate designed for Clip Studio, though there are universal ones like XP-Pen that work as well. Having functions you commonly use in your non drawing hand really helps. Functions like: Undo, Rotate Canvas View, Zoom in/out, Eyedropper color select, Scale Resize/transform, Move Canvas View, Select/Deselect. I often don't have to touch a keyboard except for file name entry during a drawing.

My condolences.

Hope you find the journey fun.

Practice at using it with basic motions and habits you have with your traditional medium. Make sure you are able to hold the tablet in a comfortable position for you to draw, be it in your lap, your desk, or propped up at an angle like a canvas.

Also find a software you are passingly familiar with the basics to start with or one you see is popularly suggested, paid or free all that matters is the time you spend getting to know it to make the best use of it. Be sure to learn how they set up all their key bindings and key strokes of options that you will frequently start using (Undo, delete, brush, paint bucket, select, marquee.) so you can set up buttons on your tablet and pen to make those most used options more readily available without needing to navigate your menus as much and can focus on drawing.

Also learn to play with the settings on your tablet pressure sensitivity till you are able to recreate the brush strokes you get out of your traditional pens and practice at recreating your line confidence.

With your chosen software, start looking up further tutorials on the settings of tools you want to learn about and practice with on youtube. To expand what they can do for you.

Thanks bud!