Scanner

I love to draw. I really do. Lots of people my age say that I could be a professional, but they typically don't know what they're talking about. I appreciate the complements and all, but I'm not NEARLY good enough relative to my age to work towards being a professional artist. Also, I'm a complete novice at all these digital coloring programs like Corell Painter that are so popular nowadays.
Matter of fact, I'd practice more with this sort of program if I was able to scan my hand-drawn stuff onto the computer so I could touch it up and make it shine there (I'm much worse at drawing things strait onto my computer than on paper and I just plain don't like doing it). Trouble is, good home scanners are really hard to come by. I've got 2, and neither work at all. They're fine printers, but the scanning feature is worthless.
Why I'm sort of thinking about this is I'd like to try animating something frame-by-frame in black and white on paper. Could be a good learning experience. This will never happen, however, if I don't get an actually good scanner. Blah.