Any tips on making a humanoid figure? (Progress so far included in post) Thread

This is all I can seem to do. Hands are a pest. His crotch is pointy and a face or detailed features? Doubt that could ever happen with my knowledge and current skills. I think I need a mentor.

It is not really a tip, but there is a free and very open software for human modeling.
Makehuman.org
It's what I use for my characters.

MakeHuman may give you the basic model to learn from to develop your model, if you want to make models from scratch.