For the past few weeks I've been trying to figure out a good set of graphics which I can use to learn Aspire, rather than the usual way I do it by grabbing everything from Google! Well I recently finished a throwback to my youth by reading 'The Hobbit' by JRR Tolkien, and there was a picture at the beginning of each of 19 chapters.....I think we see where this is going....
...anyway, I took a (bad quality so auto-trace didn't work
) digital photo of each of the 19 pictures. I don't know if I'll ever get through them all, but I think if I do, I should have a pretty good hand on Aspire by the end. 
This week I managed to find time to do the first one shown below, and I really learned a lot. I'd guess about 8 or 9 hours in total. I'm not entirely happy with it, but I think its a good start.
The biggest thing I learned is that James's recommendation of opening two instances of Aspire is more of a necessity when creating something complicated with lots of components!
The working instance of this one has 9 components and 4 layers.
What I have taken to calling the draft instance, the place where I create all the components individually, in this case I had two different draft instances, the first has 2 components and 10 layers (And to be honest was a bit disorganised!), the second draft instance (Better organised!) has 16 components and 21 layers.
Anyway, enough waffle!!.....I thought it was about time I contributed something to this forum.
Any thoughts as always are very welcome, and any constructive criticism. I'd especially welcome any suggestion on modelling moss? 
L8rs.
