GIMP & Concept art Issue

[Jokuri]

Well, first of all, hello everyone, this is my first post.

I know i'm very young to start working on these complex forms of art, but i just want to get involved into any form of art, art is just my passion! but there's something that blocks me. In the following video, a girl gives a tutorial on how to do concept art.

http://cgcookie.com/concept/2011/10/...1-foundations/

I've been following the steps until i figured out she's using one of those stylus to draw from a tablet to a computer, and as you can see she activates one 'Pressure' checkbox so the color gets darker depending on the pressure she's putting on her pen, and how am i supposed to do that without a pen and one of those screens?. So i'm asking one of these 2:

1.- How to make a effect like the one with the Pressure checkbox without having to use a pen and one of those screens.
2.- Another way/guide/tutorial to concept art, always with GIMP (Photoshop is too messy for me)

I would also be interested in knowing how much do those equipments cost (preferently in euros), i tried searching on google but i don't even know it's name and describing it gives me nothing... or is it like a common table with an application for it?

[Elwell]

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthr...g-Info-UPDATED!!

[Jokuri]

And what about a way to concept art without one of those tablets?

[-j@y-]

You can always get a cheap-o tablet like a medion or aiptek or whatever, they work decenct for the price, around 50-60 bucks. Is there any reason your concept art has to be done digitally? A good drawing can go pretty far.