Yeah I know what you mean, altough I dont draw anatomically correct figures alot, I still draw them sometimes because I know I will forget if I dont (happened before ).

I've read those loomis books before but it was a while back and altough I already have this book about anatomy by Christopher Hart (just really basic stuff in there) I think I'm just going to read those loomis things again sometime soon cause there's alot of usefull stuff in there.

As weird as it may sound, that barbarian is the first piece I've fully coloured in all the time I've been drawing (other than crayon, pencils and stuff when I was a kid),also the devil doesnt count since that's just using a filter and 3 different colours For some reason I just hated colouring :s, untill now

The reason I tried colouring like that is because of this http://www.3dluvr.com/content/article/49
I read that about a month ago and decided I really want to be able to do that too. I know I can, I just need some practice