[Rei]

Well, hmmm, I'm not a great drawer, but for a beginner having a piece of white smooth paper and a decent pencil is enough. I wouldn't recommend to start with colored drawings or inked works, because they require first of all the ability to draw in pencil.

If you want to learn, you can start by copying. Copying is easier than inventing and there's nothing wrong with it, anyways. Just copy from real life (people, animals etc...) or from illustraded books. It's good excercise to gain some ability. After you can manage to draw some basic poses, you can start with more complex ones. But depends which kind of things you want to draw. For example, if you want to draw people, it's very useful to start drawing separated body parts to understand poses, like drawing hands, legs and arms in many different poses, and then once you can draw them, it's good to start assembling those parts in whole figures.

This is how I see it, but I repeat, I'm not a good drawer