Ookay. Than I tried to get a job at Allods team/mail.ru. When I did the test task for the first time I got rejected with some really good comments why. So I had to practice on my weak spots which were: materials, surface detail and quality of a normal map. Here are some works I've done back than:
So do you want to do character ( or weapon) design only, or are you wanting to also do modeling? Here's some links that might help out some with the figure. they've got lots of poses you can study and use as reference. These aren't necessarily just straight forward poses you'd use for a character sheet, but they can help…