In literature, vignettes are short scenes or sketches that include a character and provide some information about it usually by focusing on one aspect such as personality traits, values, ideas, etc. Because of this, vignettes often represent scenes or sections of a complete plot and are widely used in theater or cinema. Additionally, some vignettes can focus on different elements and not only characters as they can describe places, objects or ideas. Thus, the ones that are short character sketches are vignettes.
Well it seems the 18x48 is bigger so personally id buy the biggest one but im not sure of how much money your willing to spend on this so if you want the cheaper one go with 12x30