Ecorche sculpting is a time honoured method for learning to understand sculptural form from the inside out. In this free 10 minute tutorial, Ryan Kingslien uses ZBrush 3.1 to create the muscles most responsible for both the form and the function of one of the most complicated and difficult to sculpt parts of the human body: the face.

I had the privilege to attend a class by Ryan Church a while back. The tutorial below is his painting process and what I'd learn from the class.

Evoking feelings is probably the most challenging aspect of painting. However, there are many subtle methods you can use to give a painting that special feel you’re looking for.
Mood refers to the general effect of a painting, with all the elements coming together to arouse emotions and stimulate thoughts. There are quite a few ways of creating mood, including subject matter; scenery and composition, to name but a few.

People have been asking how I am going about to paint hair for quite a while now.
First of all, I am crazy about hair. I seriously love spending hours on painting it so this method might not be the one for you. However, every tutorial out there helped me develope my own way of painting and this might as well be in part useful and adoptable for your own needs.

Art theory is somewhat a science to a special degree. There is a lot of logic and physics you need to know in order to really understand what’s going on. I also think that there are certain rules to why an illustration works or works not.

Sketching in Adobe Photoshop (custom brushes, useful shortcuts)

3D Modeling and texturing, making fur in Softimage XSI Lesson (step by step): “Ferret Making Of" by Sebastien Gaucher.