I stumbled upon these over at the Tech-GFX.net forums and thought it could really help out some folks here who are beginning in the gfx world. I highly recomend everyone (even i read it over and tried some new things) check out the text tutorials, as I see everyone in SRF can improve on text.
http://www.tech-gfx.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=4234
Check em out, oh and Im not just here to plug Tech, but I have learned so much from those guys, and been given some really cool opportunities to improve. If you want to get better in the GFX world, I highly suggest you go scope it out ^^
Cheers!
Riz