My first man....... but not my last i'm going to bone him later

The model started life as the box that you can see at the top of the image. You can just about make out that it has 3 length segs and 2 height segs. I then deleted polygons where the arms legs and head would be. By extruding edges I created one arm and one leg and also the head. Then in the top viewport I sliced a line straight down the centre of the head. After deleting any polygons on the limbless side of the head, I used the symmetry modifyer to mirror the arms and legs to the other side. Then I applied a mesh smooth to do exactly what it suggests! and I also used a turbo smooth which just gets rid of any rough areas and makes it look more like skin.