Wrong end of the stick

"This is a story all about how my life got twisted upside down, so if you'd like to take a minute and sit right there I'll tell you how I pulled out a large fragment of my hair." You can quote me on that, excluding the copyright.

So we have a typography brief and the idea is to make shapes and illustrations for characters of a selected font; I chose to use Garamond and Univers from a list of around 10 fonts.
It's all going good and I have the idea that I would like to make portraits of the font's creators using the font they produced, whilst only using the letters of their surname. (you'll see that this is where I went horribly wrong)

I stacked and built up letters to define facial figure and used larger characters for areas of colour or shading, this (unknown to me) was the exact opposite of what was on the criteria for a successful 'type' illustration for this topic.

I am rather happy how the face of Frutiger came out and mildly pleased with the portrait of Garamond so I though I'd share them with you lovely people, despite them being horribly cliché and incorrect for their purpose.

Just to you can understand what I'm getting at, this is more the direction I should of been heading; and honestly wish I had from the start as it would of saved me hours of time.
These are not my best examples but they are what I'm willing to share, not wanting to give an upper-hand to some of my more devious designer friends in this same situation. You know who you are. Just kidding.

p.s. not kidding