Thank you, James Kei

On recommendation from a friend, I decided to check out James Kei's 'Digital Figure Painting' tutorial from the Conceptart.org/MB website.

http://dvd.massiveblack.com/downloads.html#manchess

It was a great tutorial and he really does spell out the process he goes through in layman's terms. If digital figure painting is your thing, definitely check it out - its worth every cent of the $15USD it costs to download. Support the community that supports you artists!

Here are my results, I painted this while watching the tute, pausing it every now and again to catch up. Approx 2.5 hrs painting from google reference (cheers to whoever took the photo), good fun, and I didn't zoom in once!