Hand Photos
This is an example of how I created the portrait through photos of hands. Each hand has been cropped into a square to suit the features within the portrait which the square is covering. I then angled the hand to create a more realistic feature, not just static, allowing the hands to act like hair or different shaded areas like the nose or lips.
When put onto the grid, I then changed the colour of the photo to black and white, and also made the colour darker to represent shading within the portrait.