Here's an example of my latest attempt at the face tutorial. I'm just barely into Step 3 "The Details" here, but by this point, Litst's faces are starting to take shape and as you can see, mine looks like an alien. I have a LOT of trouble with the mouth and eyes, as you can see. Any advice is very welcome.

Getting back to the Vertex Modeler, I often have trouble adding vertices. Droping one in the middle of an existing edge and creating links between existing vertices seems to work just great. Every now and then though, I'll want to add a point off of existing edges and link it to existing points. I use the poly line tool for this and then link the new point in as needed. Occaisionally this even seems to work, but much more often it seems that the new point has no influence over the model. Is this not the right way to add new points?

I don't know if I just don't have enough skill with them yet, but I have a challenging time making much from Carrara's metaballs. (I do do a good candle with dripping wax once.) Even when I do get something close to the shape I'm looking for, I have a hard time getting the edges nice and smooth no matter what I put the fidelity at. Maybe I just don't have enough experience with it though, which is very possible.

Any chance you could give a few details about that hand of yours Kix? What shape did you start with? How did you do the fingers? Any other tips?