I enjoy drawing and use a [Wacom Intuos Pro[M].](https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pen-tablets/wacom-intuos-pro) It's the current gold standard for drawing that people aim for. You can buy some used ones from ebay to play around wThat's the quality standard people go for. It is an adjustment to use a tablet because you hold the pen in your hand and look at the screen, but it's nice because you can experiment and play with colors without messy paint. You can also buy the screen tablets, but I haven't forked the cash out for those yet. Alternatively there's tablets, and one of the iPads is very popular but I don't use it. As far as art applications I recommend Clip Studio Paint Ex. It does have japanese cartoons to advertise it but it is an excellent program to use and there's a huge portion of jewtube videos with it being used. It often goes on sale for a good price at 50$(?) and it's based in Japan, (same with the Wacom tablet.) Also there's a whole lot of drawing and art tutorials on jewtube, so it's well loved by a whole lot of people. There's also Procreate, but I don't use it but it has a more of a classical painterly feeling to it. I wouldn't get photoshop to do art in, they overcharge and always try to sell their cloud/membership/bs. A lot of people are moving from it because of that. Learning art, I'd recommend [Marc Brunet](https://www.youtube.com/c/bluefley00) if you're interested in drawing human characters. He really breaks things down well for beginners + advanced and his art looks pretty good. He used to work for Blizzard and taught art.