Almost ready to Roll?

So taking a few days to write up all 58 pages of Fabulae Orsa and the majority of its layout and dialogue was a lot more work than I thought. I spent nearly 5 days on and off working on what to say, how the characters would look, etc. The thumbnails were harder than the dialogue, surprisingly.

Though I'm content with what I've come up with, I expected it to be only 30 pages, but it ended up to be almost 60. Hopefully, I'll learn to tone it down some but if I can't, I suppose it can't be helped.

I'm trying to give myself a deadline and finish Fabulae by Aug. 22nd when classes start up again, so that'll give me about 4 weeks to do 58 pages. Adding in a little eye candy and cover artwork for the story, I'd say starting on Sun. 24th, I'll have to work on 3 pages per day. It seems fairly easy, but I hope I can fulfill it...

I'm already starting Xenophon's character design, which I'm satisfied with (for now). I'll have to draw up Phyrrus, Critias, and Hesperos next. They're more major characters than any of the others, and it'll give me plenty of opportunity to work on drawing males. Naturally, my next post will present these designs.

Also, since I'm having trouble sleeping, I've rewritten and posted the general plotlines of both Fabulae Orsa and Vitae Propositum, the latter of which has a shaky plotline and hasn't been worked on as much, so I apologize!

But if interested, please feel free to read them! It's a lot of material though, so be warned!

What is the meaning behind Vitae Propositum?

Greetings, and welcome to my site about my new Graphic Novel Project: Vitae Propositum!

Before beginning to even explain what this project will be about, I'll first start to explain how I came to the decision of naming my first serious Graphic Novel project. At first, I pondered on a Latin catchphrase because I've been a 4-year Latin student for a while (though I'm far from what you'd call an expert). The former name of my novel was going to be 'Pacis Eternus', meaning 'Eternal Peace'. However, after careful consideration, I decided that it would be more appropriate to name it something more applicable to the story concept so that it would ultimately tie up all the loose ends at the story's conclusion.

'Vitae Propositum' was thought up because it was the most basic yet fitting name I could think of. The underlying theme of my entire project consists of my own philosophical ideas on the meaning of life. While I knew that it would be a very intricate subject to tread on, what better, more appropriate name would there be than 'The Meaning of Life' itself? Thus, the Latin 'Vitae Propositum' came to being, and I found myself rather pleased with the tone of its ring.

I first came upon the base plot of my novel while sitting in my 'Ancient and Medieval Philosophy' class on a lecture about Thomas Aquinas' "Summa Theologica', where he discusses Man's Purpose. Although Aquinas' views differ greatly from my own, I had thought up a plot that tied in with his basic ideas, but conclusively led up to my own dismissive ideas towards Teleology. However, this is all the information as of yet that I will release, since I don't want to give away the entire plot... yet.

So that is the meaning of 'Vitae Propositum', as well as the ideas and influence under my project, I will hopefully start to release some of the character designs soon, but before I start to seriously construct the storyboards and artwork around VP, I plan on releasing a 15-20 page Pilot Chapter as a sample of my work, which I've named 'Fabulae Orsa'. Further details will the posted soon!

As I have a few months to work on this, I'll regularly be updating this with inspiring artists, and updates of my progress! Thanks for tuning in!