Figure Drawing - Marathon to Final Project

This semester i am taking figure drawing from the wonderfully talented Karen Azarnia. For final project we are going to be exploring the idea of narrative in a piece of work. In preparation for the final she has had us pick an artist or artistic style we like and either copy directly from that artist's work or copy that style into a piece of our own. Her rational behind this exercise is for us to take an artists/artistic movement we like and break it down and kind of discover it hands on. We had to produce one piece a week and it could be any size, but she did specify that she wanted the final piece to be on a large scale. So what i chose was the artistic style of comic books, in particular the simplified shapes and forms of Seth, Craig Thompson, Daniel Clowse and others from the D&Q posse. I decided to start off doing direct copies so i chose to work with Seth's graphic novel Clyde Fans No. 1. Since i missed a week due to my grandmother's funeral i ended up turning in the following two pieces. One is a copy of the cover and the other is a copy of i believe page 5 in the book. I chose these two piece because 1) i really wanted to work on portraiture which is my biggest weakness and 2) i really liked the flow of movement in the second piece and the lack of dialogue.