Drawing every day is a discipline that I probably wouldn't have adopted without digital equipment. Like most codgers of my generation and background, drawing, to me, involved marks on paper or perhaps parchment. Drawing produced tangible results--you could hold the drawing in your hands, smell the ink (or smear it!). But daily drawing with traditional materials required a certain degree of preparation, appropriate pencils or drawing implements, and so on. Digital drawing seemed promising. It is considerably more convenient--computer on, program booted, draw. No cleanup. Save and power down.
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But digital drawing requires learning a completely new tool, a new tool
that is not simple nor easily employed without significant commitment. Depending on the computer program, the platform (PC vs. Apple), drawing tablet, and more, it may take months to years to advance one's traditional drawing skills into the new medium.
My current equipment is a PC with a Wacom display tablet. I run several different programs on my desktop, including Sketchbook and Paint. These digital drawings were all done using that setup.
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