[@Mae] AAAAH!  <3  Love the scene, love the lighting, love her..  [i][sub]aaahhhh[/sub][/i]

Honestly, tutorials are good for poses and stuff, and a little bit for technique, but you also have to train your eye to pick out the shapes of light and shadow.  I have seen a serious improvement in my technique  since I started doing that.  Granted, my pose and anatomy stuff still sucks, but I'm better at accuracy.  A bit.  Sometimes.  ^.^  And I understand it's useful for anatomy stuff too.

I learned a lot by watching other people draw, too.  so not just stationary tutorials, but video ones -- and livestreams of people just arting, where they're not teaching anything but you learn anyhow.