[abledon]

Also, great artists steal:

Find a work of Kandinsky or Picasso you like and try to transfer it into blender using the same geometry shapes the artist is using.

Then add your own twists , extra light nodes / special displacement textures / flying haiku texts going across screen at appropriate times hah

[dragontamer]

Or more seriously, use "MakeHuman" to make a base human model, and then modify it to fit your needs.

http://www.makehuman.org/download.php

There's lots of ways to "steal legitimately". In this case, the human model and bones model are all set.