Inkscape has been a steep learning curve for me. Finally, I broke down, and started watching the videos instead of thinking I could probably just learn it, as it is a modern program, and ergo, pretty intuitive. I started with the below, which has been transformational in how I can play on the glowforge.
Made the little thing on the bottom right corner as a pre-holiday idea, in under 10 min. Woot.
I teach a couple of classes on lasers & design for my local Makerspace and use Inkscape just because it’s free (the MakerSpace does provide access to Adobe products but only on our machines). Since I can’t require the students to buy a tool like AI or Corel (I really prefer Corel), I teach Inkscape even though I use Corel primarily for my own work.
I use Inkscape as well. I’m enjoying classes on Lynda.com. They’re not specifically Inkscape, but they explain things well enough that I’m starting to make some progress.
This is a LONG inkscape tutorial, but I learned a LOT from watching it. I’m not into prop design, but it showed me how to “trace” an image and adjust the vector lines appropriately