Maya is great 3D Animating software with respect to its tools and commands which it provides to its users. The method of teaching being used here is the most appropriate for the online students of Maya or those who study Maya on the internet.
In this free video tutorial lesson of Maya 8.5 you will be taught about how to draw and design 3D complex polygon characters in Autodesk Maya 8.5. First of all set your menu set to polygon and your shelf tabs should be open and view should be perspective view. A tip is being told in this tutorial and is also being described here is that using move tool you can move any surface of a 3D model inward or outward a surface. Watch this video tutorial on basics of complex 3D polygon modeling in Maya 8.5.