If you want to learn fingerpicking patterns, strums, and all the little things you can add to them, the best way to do it is to take guitar lessons--if you can't afford them, find someone you know who can play, and get them to show you how to do them--when you learn from someone who knows how, you get it a lot faster than if you are self-taught--most important, it sounds right--self-taught guitarists tend not to understand how to make what they're doing sound like real music--