Thoughts while researching facial topology best practice

To begin with, researching facial topology seemed daunting, it didn’t seem like there was much information on the internet. If you type facial topology into Google, you don’t get much, the next point of call Wikipedia wasn’t much help either, only explaining the mathematical meaning of the word topology. It was on the right track as it explained about spatial properties, but it wasn’t in the context of modelling. Modelling is very mathematical in its process, and spatial awareness was important. Wikipedia only gave geometry information, there is a fine line between geometry and modelling, but there was nothing on the website that was relevant about art. A lot of information of that page went over my head.
While researching facial topology the blogs I came across seemed geared towards helping other people learn rather that portraying an excuse to show off an artistic ability at a specific medium. This was a new experience and one quite far removed from researching something on fine art or Photoshop art. This could be due the inherent lack of knowledge in most people about 3D modelling; it appears the medium has drawn to it a small group of artists that enjoy teaching and sharing the skills needed rather than using it as a platform for recognition. There seemed to be a great comradely between different model artists on the blogs, there was sharing of knowledge and skill. I feel that this is due several reasons; it’s a new art form and so not many people know how to do it, although it is directly related to physical modelling it is difficult to do, it is not as intuitive as painting or drawing or even physical modelling. This is because thought always has to be given to what tool is used, how strong and what size it is.
While searching through a few different blogs I even stumbled across a fellow student in my class, asking for help on a blog, several bloggers were attentive, giving information happily.
After learning about 3D modelling it became easier to search for relative information as it was possible to search for key words used within the industry, like “Sub-divide”, “Edge Loops” and “Poles”. The Student resources folder on the University computer network was also helpful in its content.