Hi! I'm a returning beginner to art here's little backstory. My way of learning art when I was younger didn't help me in the long run with improving my art and skills. I eventually experienced severe burn out and disappointment juggling high school and making art that wasn't appealing or improving so I dropped it. I'm a freshman in college now and I want to take my art and art learning more seriously, improve to the point I can make money from it, be proud of work, and actually retain what I learned instead of forgetting almost everything 2 weeks later but feeling a false sense of security cause "I already drew it so I can remember how to draw it later."

Unfortunately according to "Lesson 0: Getting Started

Required/Recommended Tools" it's highly recommended you use physical art supplies trying to learn digitally is like an uphill battle and the reasons they gave are good valid points on why to start out traditionally and work your way to digital. My problem with this is that I'm a freshman in college almost entirely dependent on my financial aid for expenses. I couldn't afford to go out and buy extra supplies when I still have to buy my other art supplies for my classes that unfortunately still haven't clarified if they're digital based or traditional since the last once was almost entirely digital. Long story short can I still be able to learn to drawing almost exclusively digitally? If you're wondering why I have a drawing tablet instead of a physical art supplies when at a glance a tablet seems more expensive it was a gift for my 17th birthday.

TL:DR I want to take my art learning more effective and serious but don't have physical art supplies only a laptop and digital tablet since I'm broke; should I still go ahead and start learning to draw digitally even if it's not the recommended way?