hehe thank you
well, i am really low skilled artist to begin with, and my knowledge is not very great, but as much as i can tell you is to do your research. i became serious about drawing when i made an account here on deviantArt, before i didn't know a thing nor i was serious about drawing or improving my skills. month later i knew everything about digital art and month later i had my first digital tablet already.
so, what can i say to you? I am using tablet and drawing everything on a computer, and i do sketches with mechanical pencils on paper to practice my skills. I am drawing in Paint Tool Sai program, which is mostly for painting stuff, it doesn't have many options like e.g. Photoshop (but i use photoshop to edit pictures from time to time)
and also i can say is that it doesn't matter what medium you use as long as you practice and do what you love. did you see a deviant here who were drawing photograpic pictures with 6 different ballpoint pens? that's a skill
so, good luck and don't hesitate asking any questions