Ryan Maloney recommends an iPad with Apple Pencil as the best setup for digital art, then walks through alternatives he's tried: a Wacom Intuos tablet, an LG monitor, and a Wacom Cintiq Companion that he used for most of his books.
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Digital art recommendations for people just starting off. My favorite is an iPad with an Apple Pencil. It's a super smooth drawing experience and I just love the portability. I throw mine into a Sketchboard Pro. Not a sponsored post or anything, but I put it in my website here. Here you can get like 10 or 20% off. I reached out to them to be an affiliate. Let me show you some other stuff that I draw on. Wacom Intuos. I'm sure I'm saying that wrong. Connected to my laptop. Then I draw on the LG widescreen monitor, and I used to draw on this thing, which is a Wacom Cintiq Companion. I made most of my books on this. It's a full computer and uses a Wacom pen. Can't open it with one hand. All right, there we go. I've used pretty much everything, and it all comes back to just the iPad is the best thing that I've, I've used so far.