Looking for some advice under the heading Graphic Design for Dummies

....am hoping this is the right place to ask some questions. I'm looking for a user friendly graphics design programme that will allow me draw my designs and save them as an svg file. Paint does not do that

Now I downloaded Inkscape, found my way around it, plugged in my graphics tablet and thought away I'd go. I'd be able to 'trace' the image into Inkscape - this however is not working. the page shown in Inkscape is much smaller than the page I'm using to trace even though it's set to A4 and I'm tracing from an A4. When I draw the image it takes up the whole screen instead just on the page, and it's impossibe to go back to the starting point without ending up at the other corner of the screen. The 'pen' is jumping about the screen.

Now firstly if anyone actually knows what i'm talking about please don't use to many technical terms when replying....keep it in laymans terms.