I'm finding I can get my concepts down but I'm such a noob at the photoshop tools that I can't get a good finished product. I'm checking out the idrawgirls video tutorials and also looking at the FZD tutorials on youtube, but it's slow progress.
Things so far are looking pretty soft, lacking distinction of form. You need to start thinking of things in planes, as a collection of surfaces. Polycount is one of the best places to learn this (at least, for me it has been), because folks here are constantly showing work that essentially breaks down the middle steps of…