Have you considered gesture drawing? If you've never heard of it, it's literally looking a nude model for a set amount of time (Anywhere from 1 minute to an hour) and just trying to capture to pose and essence of the model. If you don't have any classes or groups near you (which I strongly recommend) then try the link below.

artsyposes.com (It's down right now but it's an excellent site)

If you need help with anatomy, you just need to know where everything falls in place in the body, and eventually, the rest will just come to you, but the site below is good for this kind of stuff. It has both male and female models, and a few exaggerated models.

http://www.posemaniacs.com/

For facial features, there's plenty of tutorials out there, but learning structure is most important if you want to eventually learn to do expressions.

http://catalog.nucleusinc.com/image.....oked/9300W.jpg


As for digital art, I recommend GIMP if you don't have photoshop. It's probably the best if you want to do digital paintings, but that's just my opinion, since it's free.

http://www.gimp.org/

Oh and remember, if you can learn to draw realistically, when you stylize, it will look much better!

Good luck!

thanks for the advice. i looked into gesture drawing and i'll try it, but i don't know any groups/classes where i live. i tried gimp... still need to get a tutorial for it. thanks again :D

You can try to go to  thefurryartacademy
They have a lot of tutorials there.