Hm, well! Amateur artist here with five years digital experience under my belt :3

For many years, my process was to draw something on paper, and then scan it in and colour it digitally using GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). GIMP is a nice piece of software made even better by it being FREE. While the actual drawing tools are a bit lacking, it's got a nice range of colouring tools, filters and manipulation options, which make it great for touching up picture.

If you're looking for pure digital, I suggest looking at PaintTool SAI. While it costs somewhere in the region of £30/$50, you can get a one month trial of it free and it's pretty worth it, and will pay for itself through commissions in short order. SAI is made for tablets, so don't get it if you don't have one - when you do though, the stabilisation, brush and texture features are pretty damn great for starting an image from scratch, and it's my main art program now (I still use GIMP at the end, for finishing off the image with my signature and bits of lighting).

As for tablets, you don't need a big fancy one to do good art. I suggest looking at Wacom, and something in the £50/$80 and up range. As long as you draw with your pen and it comes up on screen, that's all you need; a large, flashy one with price in four digits may look enticing, and my well be worth it, but it's best not jumping in on the deep end I'd say :P I've got one that cost about £50/$80, and it's suited me fine for a good half a year already.

Hope I could help :3

Yeah, I was looking into SAI and GIMP already. :P I've used GIMP once before, I think for making a pixel thing, idk. If I have it was a looonnnnggg time ago. Like, 6-7 years.

All I need for a tablet is something with pen pressure. I've heard Wacom is very good, so I'll look into it. ^.^ Thanks~

Then yeah, something in the range I said should be plenty. Don't get too overwhelmed by choice, though; they all do pretty much the same thing anyway, and if you just want a tablet for drawing, then you'll be fine with pretty much any of them :P

Okay, cool! :D The things I want most are the undo button and layers.

Because then I don't have to redraw the entire thing if I mess up, lolz. xD

Gotta agree with Canidae. Any tool can get the job done. You should check out Huion tablets, they're a pretty good, non-overpriced alternative to Wacom. Also, I recommend that you get a pretty large tablet since smaller ones can hurt your wrist if you use them too long, at least in my experience. Ouch.

I use Photoshop for my artwork, so of course I would recommend it to you. Photoshop CS2 can be obtained for free, actually. You can download it at Adobe's website. It's intended for people who already bought Photoshop CS2, but you're still able to download and fully use it without being one.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/comput.....shop-for-free/

Probably the most prominent difference between SAI and Photoshop is that SAI has a line stabilizer which straightens out your wobbly lines. Pretty good if you want clean lineart, though I do recommend practicing making clean lines without any help.

A completely free drawing program is Fire Alpaca, it's a lot like SAI, though a bit behind. It's friendly, easy to learn and certainly worth checking out if you're starting to get into digital art!

http://firealpaca.com/en

Oh, cool! I'll definitely check that out. ^.^ I would like any program that has the perks of editing and layers. :P