Just simple little things will get you started, it worked for me!
When I
first started to produce Ganis I just played with the frames and different objects (Placing random hats everywhere and stuff like that).
I eventually moved on to start adding sprites in (Adding guns/weapons) as before, just mucked around a bit to try and hook on to what's happening, during this time I did have Ace Ciprioni (Current Gani Admin of the time)helping me, I eventually got the hang of it after a couple weeks, doing about 3-4 random ganis a week.
Then yeah, I started to produce proper work.
But if you EVER need Gani help, PLEASE PM me! Haha I'm willing to help you anytime!
(also check out these tutorials:
www.graalganis.weebly.com <- I made that one
www.era-go.com/ganis <I belive VeriApples made that one)