Creature Modeling

Is there an existing tutorial on creature modeling and made with blender version 2.45 or higher?
If not, could someone make one, that shows you how to make somthing like this?:

http://files.turbosquid.com/Preview/Content_on_10_19_2006_18_08_03/1.jpg70c8ed5f-6309-4c9a-904c-1caf223d222bLarge.jpg

Thanks,
|HH|Dreamz

There are some nice articles in these Blender Art Magazine issues.

http://www.blenderart.org/issues/