Patch modelling is confusing!!

Yes, not going to stick much up as it's just a flying visit, but I thought I would update. Got the basic structure of the body (minus hands and feet) built. Needs a lot of work...but at least the base is there:

Then I started thinking about the head..."Oh dear, I've never really built a functioning head before...where do I start?!" I tried continuing with box modelling, but I couldn't seem to get the loops and bits right. I tried nurbs, and sub divisional surfaces all with no joy.

And finally I found a tutorial that has helped a lot!! It's actually a tutorial for making a "Dobby House Elf" from Harry Potter, but it has nice images that explain the process of head building using patch modelling. It's insanly confusing when you start, but it seems to be working for me so far. This is the progress at about 45 minutes:

It's not much I know, but when you think it came from a single plane and i've just been extruding and such, AND it's my first go at it, it's not all THAT bad!