Going through my youtube art video tuts I saved I found Stick To Figure, a process that seemed to agree with me. I spent some time fiddling with it and I think it might be a good way to do figure drawings for a while.
Using paint splatter textures and layer styles to create random planets.
UPDATE: Replaced a lot of little pictures to one that I will update as I go.
Slowly getting to grips with painting on the Surface. But have this nagging feeling that I should work on fundamentals.