Can someone help me with a question? I did the cartoon dog model as the tutorial shows...even with a little of my own touches as far as appearance goes....but I seem to be missing the poly trick....that is to say...i can create a model looking just like the tutorials...or just like the image plane I may have up....but when it comes down to the smoothing...or subd modifying....my model loses it....

I guess my question is....when creating polygons and splitting polygons what is the general rule as far as shape/size/postioning? is the objective to create 4 sided polys all as straight in a row as possible on your model? Like building blocks? Apologies for the rather NEWB question.... I hope it makes sense.

eg of what I was experiencing...