mayaniac: those are nice refs but their for high ooly models...u have any mid poly game model head refs......because that's what I'm doing

Yea I understand that perfectly, it's just that I reckon that you could make it a bit more "efficent" round that area, whilst keeping the same level of detial....

yea you are def right gster...I'm still working on it. Do you have any pointers for me (draw on my refs to show me ideas). As you know, this is only my 2nd model. Cheers...

This is how I would go about it if it was my model.

Just cleaned it up a bit really. I know that having all quads in a game environment isnt a requirement but if your planning on animating and/or sculpting out a normal map reducing the tris helps you out as they can possibly be a bit "lumpy" when sculpting.

thanks dude, ill work on it later on...