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Leave redistricting to the Legislature, but put a rule in place that once you start putting a district together, you cannot move out of the Township and County where you begin before the district has all the people it needs. Once you fill that township, you can move to an adjacent one, but not out of the County until it too is totally used up. I would also require that State Senate districts be comprised of exactly 2 Indiana House districts.
Each house district needs roughly 70,000 people. If you began in any township of Fulton County, you would stay in Fulton to get its 20,500 people. Then you move to a township in an adjacent County, say Pulaski. After getting its 14,000 residents, you move to Starke and pick up 24,000 more. The total is now 11,500 people short. You step over to Marshall and pick up a couple townships and you’re done.
History has shown that the Legislature can’t be trusted with this job so I support this effort. However, the chances that the Legislature relinquishes this responsibility are remote so your idea has merit. Start the process with the township in the center of the County’s largest City (or the most populous township). For Indy that would be Center, for Evansville use Pigeon, for Fort Wayne use Wayne. And then, as you describe, add other townships until the legislative District is complete.