Darktiste Sketchbook

[EduardoGaray]

i understand that fear but, when you are just starting, its much, much better to use traditional tools.
Why? well, as you said, painting and drawing with a real pencil and real oils/acrilics/etc... is more difficult.
You dont have all the fancy things photoshop has, you cant use ctrl+z, you cant make zoom and so on. But because of that, you will actually learn 100x times faster.
I always used traditional tools like pencils and oils, i only went for digital painting when i realized that i really didnt have money to keep buying supplies haha.
You could say that digital is faster and much cheaper than traditional, but thats useless unless you have good fundamentals.

I suggest you to take a book/video about drawing from life, get a big drawing paper and some pencils and start making life drawings every day.
I spent a whole year drawing fucking fruits and greek statues in art school, but it was worthy.