Noooooo! Not life drawing! I took a life drawing class a couple years ago and I hated it. I felt really uncomfortable for the model, if that's possible. I will agree that studying the real thing is valuable.

The ear work will be this weekend, probably a series of extrusions rather than two separate bridged models. Seems the more often I do things, the easier it becomes.

re: making my own images isn't that easier. I have very few friends, none of which would put up the humiliation of being an experiment. I even put an ad out on craigslist so that I could measure the people's proportions (I wanted to know where short people are short). In any case, I will photograph myself and reshape the mesh in my likeness so I can do all the things I wouldn't do in real life - like jumping out of an exploding helicopter.