Furthermore, this course does not cover rigging or animation. It ends with a static, posed render. Rigging is covered in follow-up CG Cookie courses. Consider a game studio hiring a junior character artist. They don't ask if you can sculpt a bust. They ask if you can model a character with clean topology that doesn't crash the render engine or distort during animation.
If you are tired of your characters looking like melted plastic and want to build models that move, breathe, and animate cleanly, this course is your starting line. CG Cookie - Introduction to Character Modeling in Blender
For many 3D artists, character modeling is the holy grail. It sits at the intersection of technical skill, anatomical knowledge, and artistic expression. But for beginners staring at a default Blender cube, the gap between "I want to make a character" and actually rigging a finished model can feel impossibly wide. Furthermore, this course does not cover rigging or animation