What 32 said, yeah. It's one of many, many ways you can pick up new ideas and techniques to run with! The basics are what you want to start with ideally, in my opinion, but there are many rules of thought and a lot of different paths you can take.
I started with mouse art, for example. Still primarily DRAW with a mouse even! There's a lot of benefits and drawbacks to the route I took, notably that I can't draw worth a ding-dong if I use anything other than a mouse right now. On the flipside, I'm pretty ok at drawing with a mouse.
Being in this weird place gives me a lot of impetus to encourage people to learn normal artistic methods first, since my over-reliance on the mouse has become such a crutch for me at this point in my artistic progression.