Well, I can tell you what I use, if thats any help? Since I do nothing else but traditional.

• Mechanical Pencils with 0.5 mines (HB & H) for Sketches and the likes. I rarely use HB anymore though, since it smears to much for my taste! only use it for concepts and stuff that doesn't really matter :P
• Sakura Pigma Micron Pens (works best for me) for inks
• Anything that Copic produces (but its pricey as hell QwQ I only use them for commissions / gifts for very dear friends)
• Inks that are also nice: Staedler pigment liner, Faber Castell Ecco Pigment, Edding 1800
• Gel pens from Sakura (I only have the white one tho)
• Coloured pencils from Faber Castell (I use the Polychromos, but I think the others work very well for beginners too, any cheap brand will do for practicing)
• For paper I dont use brands, but I make sure the surface is smooth and at least 150 g/m² (the one I used for our trade was 190 g/m² and cost 6€ / 50 sheet) so copics dont bleed through and it doesn't get ugly bends that easily
• for Acrylic stuff I use Lukas Studio

I dont know if that helped any? I never read any books on it, but I read lots of tutorials a few years back, on deviantArt mostly. I can't remember which tho....
...tip-toes away

I would recommend not using Copics since they are not permanent. Use the best quality stuff so it lasts and if you use good materials you get better results. I only do traditional and would recommend Acrylics (Liquitex and Grumbacher are both good) if you get the large basic tubes they are just as good as the smaller more expensive tubes. Watercolor colored pencils are great and work well with Acrylics. Prisma Colors are good. Micron markers are color fast and waterproof and come in many sizes so I recommend them as well. Bristol is good paper to start. Canson paper or board are my favorites. Tutorials...I don't really know of any but several of the traditional artists on here have done step by step examples of how they work. Looking at these and practice, lots of practice!

I find a lot of time the exact quality of the medium doesn't matter too much starting out but can make a difference later when you're really got a handle on it and are tuned into the subtle differences in how they handle.

Stuff I use! :
-Prisma pens - these are expensive and are similar to copic markers
-Prisma watercolor pencils - I like these, they're more fragile than they used to be and not as well made anymore but they are great with watercolors cuz they'll blend
-Dixon Ticonderoga pencils - these are generic 2b but they are well made and have the best erasers of almost any pencil out there. Most people swear by em.
-Micron, staedtler, and sharpie pens of all sorts - permanent, generally non smudging (except you micron), and work well with most other mediums
-Generic ball point pens - I sketch with these all the time
-multipurpose printer paper- I'm a poor college student, it works
-Canson brand sketchbooks- not too expensive, really nice paper, I wont buy any other brand really

I use markers mostly, so most of my advice will be geared towards that. C:
I like Copics, they're expensive, but my favorite for shading dark to light. I lay down the shadows first, then add the lighter colours. Prisma is good for this method too. I don't recommend any colours by prisma that use yellow, though, because they aren't archival and over time bleed out.
When using ink make sure you choose one that won't smart our bleed when you use them with markers.
Fire accents of white, you can grab a decent gel pen from a scrapbooking section in most art stores.

Hope that helps!

I'm no help lol I honestly just use whatever I get my hands on XD but I typically work with graphite