>>7725889 (OP)
I'd say a lot of kids are a lot more talented in their youth than we used to be - I think that's because of the abundance of good resources at their finger tips.
I only had the shitty books that my mother picked out for me, that were of no real help - Legitimately, if I had loomis and knew how good of a resource he was, I'd have been better off.
There's also their cheaper tablets. I at one point had a tablet, a cheap one, but it had CARPETING material in the drawing area - if you think that would be abysmally shit to draw on, you'd be absolutely right.
These days you can get a perfectly adequate drawing tablet for $50, no problems.