I've decided it's probably best to find good books for both Illustrator and Flash, since I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed by them at the moment. My Inkscape drawing technique doesn't seem to port to Illustrator very well at all. My usual strategy of drawing a rough sketch version then overlaying it with a highly vectorised shape that I hand mould into the right proportions doesn't seem to work very well in Illustrator, as I haven't found a functional equivalent to the node tool for manipulating shapes at the most fundamental level. I'm sure it can be done, as Illustrator artists make art like that all the time, but I haven't yet figured out the best strategy for doing that yet. Hence my desire to hunt down some good instruction manuals to help speed up the learning process.

More on this (and my PC not being up to spec for Bioshock) at trazoi.net