3 Panel Transformation

So I recently started a Drawing for the Graphic Novel and Narrative Storytelling class taught by Riley Rossmo, and our first assignment was to transform our partner in the class into something representative of them in three panels.  My partner really liked tarantulas and had kind of spiky hair that I thought would work well in the transformation.  I kind of like how it turned out, but I wish that I had used something other than graphite to color it in...