making my own figures

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So, as an artist, my big aspiration (for now and however long it takes for it to pass) is to get good at sculpting, specifically action-figure type sculpting.
Do any of you have any guides or tutorials from people in the industry? I'm curious about what materials, tools and methods sculptors use when they make figures. I thought since you lot seem to be heavily into this kind of thing, you might have stumbled across something like this before.
Thanks!