Several things....as with Butterflyfish - I'm having trouble deciding what shape I should begin with

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I'd like to see tutorials on how to do a house(interior as well), a sea shell(conch style)in addition when you are modeling a tree & you want to use alpha planes for leaves how do you place them on the tree in Hex to get good coverage?
Also how to get better control over the tools in general. For example when using the sweep tool any slight movement of my mouse gets me some hideous shape that ends up covering my whole workspace LOL. I have to slowly inch my way back to some normalcy.
More basic how to's
Also, I prefer mine in printable format, having to toggle back n forth between video & workspace I find myself loosing interest.
Ditto JohnnyRoy as well.
Thanks