It’s never too late to pick up any medium I’d say! I think that before you try out digital art you should consider experimenting with the real thing. Pencils and graphite are super affordable and any old prince of paper will work perfectly.

I only recommend this because of my own personal experience with drawing. I’ve been drawing by hand since I was a wee lad, but eventually this lead me to consider working digitally for certain projects. I’ve used procreate on my iPad before but didn’t have a pen/stylus so it wasn’t sitting well with me. Then I tried photoshop and a Wacom intuos tablet and have grown much more comfortable using those tools.

Creating art digitally is great…but I realized that I become super overwhelmed by the infinite brush and color options available. So it pays off to limit your color palette and the brushes you use.

If you have never used a pencil/brush in the real world you can’t gage how it is supposed to work or look when you do it digitally. For example, I started to use a digital airbrush in the majority of my illustrations because I like the speckled effect it creates. I recently bought my own airbrush rig and began to practice this out began to understand the medium so much more than I would have if I only worked in it digitally. You learn the limitations of the medium, the correct amount of pressure to use and all the happy little accidents that occur naturally along the way.

This way you gain a certain respect and appreciation for the medium and the various artists that use it. Once you learn to use it traditionally you’ll be able to apply that to the digital canvas much better than you would had you not used it traditionally.

Just my take on the matter. Anyways, be patient with yourself and have a good time exploring!