Like you say THX1138, a polar bear head isn't really hard to model a shape for. Whether the shape is correct is a different matter
Instead of finishing the modelling in a week and then having 7 weeks of texturing/shading I thought I'd push my modelling skills over 2 to 3 weeks, give the texturing a week or two and leave the last few weeks to finishing the shading and learning paintFX stuff

Whether it goes as smoothly as that is yet to be seen