I have relatively recently discovered, thanks to someone near and dear, the idea of streaming. So I tried all the cameras we have in the house: little webcam - probably antique, DSLR camera, pocket camera, small video camera, etc. They all have their problems. The image quality of the first is too poor, streaming with a DSLR ruins it, the pocket camera refused to cooperate and we do not seem to have the proper cables for the video camera that is probably too old for the task anyway.
So I did a few online searches related to streaming cameras and after several hours of interesting presentations and such, for a distraction, the near and dear showed me a game called "Passpartout: The Starving Artist". This made me think of a possible alternative to streaming drawing on an actual pad (with the problem of finding the right camera): a digital drawing/painting tablet that I can just connect to the computer and then draw 'on-screen'. So I looked up what the options are with that. All very interesting, of course. The decision is now: a camera or a digital drawing tablet - the cost of the ones I found most interesting is about the same.
One consideration is whether I will like drawing and painting on a tablet or not. Will it be a fun thing to learn to do until it becomes 'easy' and then I discover all the limitations of technology such as using a stylus instead of pencils, coloured pencils, small or medium or large brushes, pens and so on. I have no idea if any of that will matter. There is also the size of the tablet - how much space is actually needed in one line for the drawings I do? what is the reaction time between stylus and line? I have downloaded a drawing app on my regular tablet and have drawn with my finger and with the tablet pen and have found that joining lines to lines is dicey as is overlapping unintentionally - my finger and the tablet pen are both broader at the base than a pen, pencil or soft brush. Then there is the question of control of colour and mix of colour. On the app I have, there are nice transparency effects but it is very different from the 'real thing'. That can be annoying or it can be just different.
As a result of wanting to do one thing (streaming) I have become completely side-tracked from what I was doing (painting). I am therefore going to get back to painting - after about six days of traveling and visiting where painting was not an option - and make a decision of camera vs tablet by next Tuesday which is when I am scheduled to stream (or perhaps scream, if I have not decided).