JM_Zen everyone has to start at some point
You don't suck, you are just starting to build a foundation is all, and taking your time and learning the skills and the things that work best for you with repetition and such will lend to creating a solid foundation.
really really
oh... something that always that was said to me many times growing up
: can't never did and quit never will :
stick with it, you've a desire or you wouldn't have started and you pretty much show in this thread
that your not flippant about learning
Online Tutorials, Magazines, Books, paper, pens and pencils, computer paint programs, editing software
paxx has the right of it I am thinking also