Practice and play with it. I have had Poser for over a year and a half and have yet to put anything in the Gallery. There are also sufficient free resources (figures, props, conforming clothes, whatever) to at least get familiar with it before throwing large amounts of cash at it. Paw through the tutorials and try to work them into your scheme, but don't try to do everything at once and don't expect to match people here overnight. (I played with the walk designer and animation for several weeks when I got this machine in Oct 2000, but nothing was worth showing off, I was just playing with it.) You don't say how long you have had Poser (and the various bits you have purchased), but the "art" is not in how many bits you have, but how you put together what you do have.