Visit CG Cookie’s website, start a free trial (often 7 days), and go straight to the "Introduction to Character Modeling" course. Have your reference image ready, and remember: Every vertex has a purpose. Happy modeling, and keep your topology clean.
If you want to get a job in games or film, this is the method you need to learn. The course drills this muscle memory hard. Let us be brutally honest. This is an introduction , but it is not a first-day-in-Blender course. CG Cookie - Introduction to Character Modeling in Blender
The CG Cookie method is . You will use Ctrl + R (Loop Cut), E (Extrude), and F (Fill) thousands of times. It is slower. It is meditative. But the result is a mesh that deforms beautifully. Visit CG Cookie’s website, start a free trial
Characters are organic. They require an understanding of anatomy, edge flow (topology), and deformation. A single misplaced polygon on a character’s shoulder will cause a catastrophic "pinch" when the character is animated. If you want to get a job in