I've edited the handle because the dragon head was barely visible so i prefered something that actually change the silhouette. Also made an emissive mask. To be tweaked...
Topology is almost everything. Just almost :P Anatomy/Proportion is. Depends though on what characters you want to do; aliens, monsters, animals, people or dragons.
can't wait to see all the halloween pictures, especially Paul's dragon and Jon's predator costume (will it be finished?). Here's what I got done on the Tiki head: