tutorials are cool but spend more time experimenting and learning - fail fast, fail often, learn from those failures. I recently saw a clip from a max tutorial that regularly used the model breaking mirror button (it screws up your normals) instead of the mirror or symmetry modifier. So tutorial dvds are not always…
Well, start off with what do you know, in terms of knowing how to use 3d modeling tools. Have you actually started working on 3d model and finished it. If you have: Than you know the basics of how things are done for 3d arts and how to use the tool. The rest depends on your practice and if you are working full time, I'd…