Spreading my talents

Im wanting to spread my talents into different areas of CG than just animating. I origonally got into CG for modeling charcters and creatures, I still have a passion for creating characters so i decided to dive into it....My first model since school a horse. I created it because I wanted to animate a good, apealing horse. And I tried to model it so that I could do a lipsinc with it if I chose to. One of my friends is rigging it, so soon I will find out if I accomplished what I set out to do. I feel that more work could have gone into the maine and tail. It took me 2 weeks to compleet the body and 4weeks to compleet the head.....remember first model since school....