Quote Originally Posted by Nayto View Post
Although a cintique (i'm assuming) is amazing, you can live without it and just get the wacom bamboo/intuos. If the problem is that you have to look at what your drawing, try doing some practice sketches of random things but try to look at the object while your drawing. Once you get the muscle feeling down, you'll find that using the tablet(not cintique) is just way easier than the low-tech sketch practice you were just doing.
Pretty much this D:, it's a little shaky to begin with but you'll be so surprised at how the feeling is just so natural after a very short time.