If you're a beginner and have never used a tablet before, I would probably recommend a lower end tablet, like the intuos small (back when I started the equivalent line was called the bamboo and the intuos were the high end ones lol)
I have a slightly older intuos, and well. It's a piece of crap. The build quality is poor, with a back panel shifted out of place that will NEVER go back in, however, I think this newer line seems to have fixed most of the issues I had with mine, plus I've been using mine for 4 years now and while it's being a bit dodgey, it remains, useable. Since you're a traditional artist, I think the main concern I would have is work area. The starter level tablets are SMALL and if you're used to a minimum of a4 you're likely going to experience very bad wrist cramping from the minute movements.
I think it also depends on what you want to do. Do you want to simply edit your traditional pieces? sure the intuos should be ok, you won't have quite so much repetitive strain.
I've been using wacom products for about 8 years now and I guess what I can say is : they work. Is using one of these starter tablets a fun experience? no, not really. Does it do the job? Yes. A more expensive tablet will not do the work for you either, so building up digital art skills on a cheaper tablet before taking a dive into something better is the best course of action in my mind.
I would suggest getting the 60 dollar tablet (but look around you may find cheaper, mine was I think 40 on amazon) and using it for a few months. Right now I use clipstudio paint, and its a very fun program to use, but if you wanna try something free, fire alpaca is, ok, not great, but good enough to see if you want to invest more money in digital art.
I think since you've a basis in traditional art, you will actually take very well to digital art. A lot of people who start out with digital get spoiled by shortcuts and don't form good technique - not that I can say I'm better, I'm one of those people lol! I suggest looking at speed draws of digital art to get a good idea of how people do it. One of the artists who really helped me understand digital art was Kawayoo, and looking at his speed draws I learned a lot. Also, coming from traditional art, you would like clipstudio paint, it has a lot of digital brushes that imitate real life art mediums, like pastels, different types of paints, lots of options. I recommend it. I got it on sale for 25 bucks. It's normally 50 but a few times a year it goes on sale. If you're poor like me, I'd use a free app, and get it on sale ^^
On my end, I'm saving up for a cintiq16 asap, because I'm sick careening my neck up to look at the screen, as well as the tiny surface area of my tablet. My series of cheap wacom tablets have served me very well. But oh boy.... basically, its like how medicine tastes bad but it still fixes you, a starter tablet is like that for digital art skill.
