Wants to start anime figures

Since anime is fantasy, seems to me you should be free to do what you like.  http://www.nutsforanimefigures.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Here's a good site, to see how one artist does his work:

http://codyscoop.com/

Cody Kwok does fantastic work-don't be intimidated by the quality of his painting and composition.  He has a good tips section, and if you read the build notes that he has posted, you can see some techniques that are very useful.

Regards,

Brad

Another place to try is Planet Figure: http://www.planetfigure.com/

There's not a specific category in their forum for anime, but it's a forum for painters, and there are many posts (a search at the top level of the forum returned a good number of articles) asking about this technique or that, in which the poster was working on an anime subject.

Of course, as it is across the modeling hobby, techniques used in one subject are probably applicable to most other subjects.

Regards,

Brad