before jumping right into teh deep end with the materials, i wanted to see what areas of the model would be stretched, so i pressed "M" whihc opened the material box, i then pressed the small box next to where it says "diffuse" i then clicked "checker"

i then clicked and dragged the circle with checkard patten onto my model.

with this, i saw there was alot of stretching around the shoulders and ontop of the head.