iPad mini for starting out ?

I want to create stickers and have a website to sell all of them. I also want to dabble in bookmarks...

I’ve been considering getting an iPad mini 7 with a Apple Pencil pro for being able to create digitally but I’m worried that my art will not come out as authentic like on paper and will have this ai look to it ..am I overthinking it or should I just stick to paper??

I love the idea of proceate still though because it sounds so much easier to design and print out, and i won’t have to carry around so much weight of materials.

let me know your thoughts /opinions.