I've been drawing manually since I was in 8th grade. Never went digital. Never will. All I can say is that when drawing people, do a base outline of the figure, then work on the different areas separately (head, torso, arms), and good luck on the hands, bc those are a big pain in the ass (for me at least). And also, if you are doing a drawing with people far away in the background, don't worry about detailed eyes, just make a curved line for the upper eye lid, and draw a half diamond as the eyeball/pupil. [spoiler]A good sketching/drawing kit should have pencils ranging from 5H to 6B or 8B, charcoal pencils, woodless pencil (optional), art knife, kneaded and standard erasers, those little rolled up paper sticks (for blending), sandpaper stick, sharpeners (preferably), and straight charcoal sticks. This is my kit, and is honestly pretty basic. My drawings usually look like shit bc I actually can't do anything artistic, but if you want to sketch/draw, even badly, you gotta have the right stuff.[/spoiler]