I need some tips on making textures.
(Especially heads)
And can someone provide me the grid thing (The thing that coordinates where I color at)

one sec, i'll edit into this post now

several tutorials covering the basics: http://forum.toribash.com/forumdisplay.php?f=510

That link doesn't really help me..
How do people make Layers (Like where it looks like something is over something but still visible. (This problem has been getting me stuck at head making(

in the future, use google for the absolute basics
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=layers+gimp
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=layers+photoshop