Something else I wanted to share on the offchance it was helpful to anyone looking, is what I'm using for a sketchbook. I encountered a problem last year where the sketchbooks I was buying from a local art store were removed from stock. All of my sketching is done with a regular mechanical pencil, and paper with a lot of…
Started looking at some reference material and realised that I had tried to give him the body of a sprinter and that it would be more fitting if I tried to give him more of a marathon runner body. Tried doing a paintover where I tried to give a more slender look.
You need to research anatomy a LOT more. Upper-inner thighs should touch while standing Look at Olympic Sprinters (some of the best overall physiques belong to them and Olympic Lifters) For more on muscularity http://www.t-nation.com/tmagnum/powerfulImages.jsp It's an anatomy study, so get on it.
if you like to have a unique ground texture you have to cut the ground in pices and paint everything in a 3dpaiter wich is able to paint uv tiles or udims... (mudbox, mari,..) or you use a engine wich has terrain tools.... or a plugin for terrain creation like this here..…