Welcome to the forum.

For a newbie to trad I would suggest no more than 40-45lb draw weight at their draw lenght, stay away from short bows (no shorter than 64" for a long bow 60" for a recurve), long bow or recurve is a personal choice.

Get form down first before worrying about anything else.

If you shoot a compound now then your draw lenght will be about an inch shorter with trad gear. So if you say have a 28" DL ona compound it will be about 27" on trad.