"Howdy-Ho, Vector-eenos,"
When I First started using Inkscape a few months ago, I searched for a tutorial that would help me understand how to accomplish something with Inkscape, a practical tutorial. Maybe I didn't search hard enough, but I found very few of them at the beginner level. When I start to learn something new, I like to have a goal in mind, so I have something to work towards.
Well as luck (or God ;) would have it, an opportunity surfaced for me, I was invited to contribute an icon to the pool of candidates for the Ardour free DAW (http://ardour.org)
"This is my chance to write a tutorial at the same time, so others could benefit from my learning experience", was the thought. So I snapped some screenshots, fired up vim, and lo and behold, here I am writing this letter.
My tutorial is illustrated and available at : http://bennyp.no-ip.org/new/inktut.php
Feel free to share it and change it under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license 2.0 (Canada) If you wish to link to it, that's no problem either, although it's preferable for me that you mirror it instead.
Enjoy!!