Creating Comics Module -Two Options

I have two options for medium-term projects. I have been researching the painter Vermeer, with a view to a possible graphic novel about him. Alternately I could go down the route of a collection of stories about different artists.

In terms of the semester one project, I have two main options: a chapter from the start of the Vermeer project, or the expansion of a story I am currently working on about the painter Uccello. 

The latter I am working on as a four-page to put in for the Observer graphic short story competition:  in that format it is dense in both visual and narrative terms, so I would wish to at some point expand it.