realistic self portrait

for this project we had to copy a photograph of ourselves and shade it realistically using the grid method. first i took a photograph of myself, then i gridded it. then i took a piece of paper and gridded that. then i started shading with different types of pencils. the project relates to my life because it is a self portrait.

the materials used were black sharpie, 6h pencil, 4h pencil, 2h pencil, hb pencil, b pencil, 2b pencil, 4b pencil, and 6b pencil.

my project evolved from a piece of paper, to a gridden piece of paper, to a partly shaded piece of paper, to a fully shaded piece of paper. i don't have any next steps.