here is a semi tutorial , just the image set for a work up for the head in the shot below, this is how i work in cs2 with out line art, , i rough things up first to get placement then i refine to make sure i have things in the right place and away we go , paint , ok there's more to it than that , but ill have to take some time out to explain it in detail if anyone's interested, man being altruistic takes effort;)
click the link since its rather wide and would throw out the page settings in most browsers
http://homepage.eircom.net/~defcombeta1 ... %20one.jpg
this is where the image is at the moment, the bg is damn rough right now and need heavy refining to make it work but there's something there i feel
hope you get to look at this steve , it should give you some ideas etc , you never know since i think you got a tablet dont you .
j mac