Wanted: tutor

So, I'm taking a drawing class (it is actually soul destroying for me, but I'm manning up and doing it).
Now I need help with Illustrator and Photoshop. Any one want to offer me tuition? I will pay in beer or money, and I promise to be a good student.
The end goal is to be able to have a web comic up sometime next year.

The City Lit does a good 2 week (2 sundays, 6hrs each) intro to Illustrator for £82 if you don't find someone to help

linky http://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/Visual_arts/Graphic_design%2C_DTP%2C_illustration_and_cartooning/Illustrator%3A_an_introduction

Learning to use any design software is by far the best/easiest to do on the net. There a zillions of forums & tutorials out there with clear videos demo's and people happy to help you with everything.

Learning to use any design software is by far the best/easiest to do on the net. There a zillions of forums & tutorials out there with clear videos demo's and people happy to help you with everything.

+1
And music software too, there are usually tutorials from the people who even wrote the actual program, you don't get a much better teacher than that

lynda.com is great! Paid membership tho, you can find plenty of free samples or full vids on torrents...

Thanks all. Sounds like the net is the best way to go, and Eggpie offered to supervise if I fed him beer.
Sweet.

Nhatt - if you're looking to use the software primarily for illustration then try and get a wacom tablet

http://www.tabletworld.co.uk/

it'll be a lot more intuitive for you.

If you want to have a session with illustrator one evening then I'd be glad to help - the interweb is great but the tutorials are very 'sequential' and sometimes it helps to just be able to say 'how do I do this?' rather than ploughing through hours of tutorials

I've got quite a few books you are welcome to borrow also, if I manage to get down to my parents this weekend I will happily lend them to you in exchange for a pint or two ;)

The Adobe "Classroom in a Book" range is a great way to get up to speed from scratch - you can go as fast as you like and then use them for reference when you forget stuff later... cheaper than signing up for a course?

If you want to have a session with illustrator one evening then I'd be glad to help . . . .

. . . he spun me the same line to me a few months back, I was beaten, tied up and taken to his cave, after the drugs kicked in I remember very little, just vague visions of a man in a Mexican wrestling mask eating a sausage.

that wasn't a sausage…

I have a wacom tablet, I've just never used it. I would love to take you up on your kind offer, I'll have a chance to play around a bit with some tutorials this week, then I'll send you a pm to ask what your favorite beer/sausage is.