so what do you use to model. My friends use ZBrush.

Blender. I've used zbrush before, and it's great for illustration work or creating static meshes I find, but if you want to animate it, using a zbrush model can be a nightmare because of the intense number of vertices it generates. @.@ Blender has a sculpting feature which works similarly to zbrush, though I usually prefer to plot out my points by hand.

cool, I tried blender once and failed hard. :/

I've also used Maya, and actually, I hate it compared to blender. It's crash-tastic. :/ For modeling characters, I'd have to say Blender is the way to go.

I guess I need to practice Blender more. I'd like to render my own characters in 3D instead of having friends do it for me based on my art.

Your Lizard girl looks alot like my lizard girl (with a few head fin differences).

Well, she's supposed to be an anthro dragon, not a lizard, really. xD I created her a few years ago... As a character, she's been around for a long, long time. c: I should redo her someday... I don't think I did her justice the first time around.

Blender is great, I have to say. There's a few things here and there I wish it would do - like caustics... But for a free program, I can't complain. C: