Crochet and Knitting for a Sorta-Newb

So, for the last few days, I've been fiddling around with yarn, because my mom and sister have been knitting scarves in mom's new looms. I randomly picked up knitting needles, and quickly got back in the rythm. It made me think of an idea I had to make a plushie of my fursona. The thing is, knitting focuses on large areas of rectangles, at least for a beginner. So I switched to crochetting, and after a couple tutorials on adding and subtracting stitches and circles, I got started on some practice yarn.

Shaping a semi-reptilian head in miniature size was trickier than I had thought. The entire first day of crochet was spent crochetting the first 4 rows over and over again, trying to get the right number of stitches to make the shape I want. Then the next few days were pretty straightforward as I single crochetted the neck and torso, throwing in a 14 stich long slipstiched chain for the arms. I went to Mochaels and got white, black, and dark red yarn, along with some stitch markers, which are the best things I've ever used. Now I have a couple inches of torso to go before I have to figure out the legs and tail.

I also cleared my library account of fines, and found 4 or 5 books on amigurumi or plushies that look great, among another 20 other books I put on hold. Not all of these were on crochet, but I can't remember them right now.