Modeling the head, neck and shoulders

I started trying to model my head, neck and shoulders a few days ago, but had a lot of trouble doing it, and a few other people said the same to me. It turned out that the tutorial was the best way of doing it. Here is my version, of 17mins of that annoying american voice, condensed!

1. Draw a sphere from the side view. (that way the poles are around where the ears would go. This is because the poles are an awful mess of triangles, which you need to get rid of anyway)
2. Squash it, and move it into place. You probably only need to scale it on the one axis, which is the left to right sides of your face.
3. Use the modifier Edit Poly, that allows you to edit it as a Poly, without losing the original Sphere type object, so you can still control the amount of segments easily.
4. Adjust the amount of segments, to match the amount on the edges of your face. You need to same amount to stitch them together. (It should be an even number, keep in mind that you will only use half, and then mirror it just like the face.)
5. Now select the polygons that you want to remove. This should be all the triangles around the poles, the ones in the same place as the face, the left half, and whatever else you dont need. You are only trying to get a rough shape here, imagine a mohecan/mohawk haircut area.

Then by copying vertices, and creating polygons, stitch up that area, and you should get a basic head shape. The tutorial uses the left reference and draws more red lines in photoshop for topology guides, but it depends on what you find easier. I just went in, did it by eye, and used the left view to get the shape. Then theres a lot of tweaking to be done, but just using soft selection and the relax tool will work to get the right shape. I'll cover the neck & shoulders later.