Art Survey Demo: Zen Doodle Grid Portrait

I created this demo for my High School Art Survey class. This is a challenging but fun project that many student have enjoyed over the years. The subject matter is on my daughter Brianna. I started by drawing a grid on the photo (6x8) and paper (12x16) I drew a light line drawing of the portrait and then added different zen doodle designs in each square that represented the value of I saw in the photo. It was a lot of fun.
Photo of my daughter
This Art Survey demo of my daughter. I chose an interesting photo with lots of different values and textures.
STEP ONE: Gridding out the photo
On this step, I took my 6' X 8" photo and drew a grid of 1/2 " squares across it. and made 1" squares on my 12 X 16 paper.
STEP TWO: Line Drawing
In this step, a very light line drawing is created using the grid as a guide to make sure the proportions are correct.
STEP THREE: Zen Doodle
In this step, I used different Zen Doodle designs in each of the 1" x 1" squares. I made open designs for the light values and tight designs for the dark values.
STEP FOUR: Adding ink
I used Micron pens to start adding in the values. I made sure to look at the values on the photo to make sure the designs followed the values that I see.
FINISH
I fine tuned the drawing by adding smaller lines to make darker values were needed.