Uh, actually, you can make an ear entirely out of quads in LW. My favourite way to do so is to make polygons to fit the revolving ear shapes with the pen tool, bevel it out and rotate it around. A bunch of those segments can then be merged together using the merge points tool.

Triangles look bad in subpatches when they intersect at odd angles. It's kind of like making a non-planar quad polygon, but really, it doesn't matter too much eventually. You can always change the subpatch setting to show how many polygons to display.

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