This project took much longer than I wanted it to since I working on another project that I was getting more and more frustated with and moved on to this one to try and clear my mind. While I very happy with the story I come up with for this pitch, the digital art imo needs alot of work. Any feedwork would be greatly appreicated.

Story Summary: "At a glance, 17 year-old Sarah Lee seems like the model student. She is at the top of all her classes, Popular with everyone and has even been accepted by one of the most reowned university in the state. To the outside world, Sarah has everything. Everything, but freedom.

Behind the scenes, Sarah is dealing with alot. A messy divorce between her parents, the threat of having to leave her best friend Jessie behind, and the weigh of deciding what she wants to do in life. With all this pressure around, will the gem of Applewood High shine bright or crack under the weigh of exspectation."

The Characters:

Sarah Lee: A Honor student of Applewood High. Top of her classes and overall loved by everyone. Very good at bottling her emotions and prepetual people pleaser.

Graphic Novel Pitch: Letter Of Approval - image 1 - student project

Jessie Lopez: Sarah's Best friend since elemenatary school and top player of Applewood's volleyball team. Been with her through thick and thin.

Graphic Novel Pitch: Letter Of Approval - image 2 - student project

Alexa Ritter: Captain of Applewood High's newest Roller Derby team. A no-nonsesne girl who is quiet hostile to Sarah at first but comes have a bit of a crush on her by the end.

Graphic Novel Pitch: Letter Of Approval - image 3 - student project

Stephanie Lee: Sarah's Single Mother and the woman who has pushed her daughter to being the best in school. She expects nothing less than prefection from everyone and everything.

Graphic Novel Pitch: Letter Of Approval - image 4 - student project

Target Market: YA

Gerne: Slice of Life/Drama

Topics: Unhealthy exspectations, Changes in relationships, and Finding your self-worth as person.

Basic Plot Outline:

Act 1: The Letter

Sarah receives a an acceptance letter from one of the top universities in the state. Something she has very mixed feelings about.
Her Best Friend, Jessie Lopez, finds out about this and asks her friend what is she gonna do.
Sarah sheepishly says that she will be attending universisty as per her mother's wishes.
Fearing this is Sarah's last hurrah, Jessie decides to fill out Sarah's list of thing she wanted to do before graduting.
Three points include: "Join a sports team. Win the Writing contest award. Kiss someone you like.
Knowing her friend, Sarah decides to humor Jessie in achiving this points.

Act 2: The Lies

Sarah's relationship with her mother starts to become strained, with her constant demands to prepare for univeristy life rather than high school.
Sarah begins work on a short story for the writing contest.
She and Jessie scout for sport teams she can join, settling on the local roller derby team. Meeting the team's captain Alexa.
Sarah juggles the sport team's pratice sessions, writing her submission and constatly lying to her mother about unisersity.
Sarah starts to actaully be happy with the team and lying to mother.
Come the Roller derby team finals, and Sarah's mother finds out about what her daughter been doing. Resulting in Sarah completely losing it and admitting that she hates her for everything she has done.
Sarah's mother simply says that she's disowned. Somehting that Sarah is almost happy about.

Act 3: The Loose Ends

Sarah spends the night in Alexa's house for the night. The two talk about what transpired, with Sarah still being happy that she can finally be her person. Even if she has nothing.
Alexa asks about why she joined the roller derby team, to which Sarah mentions the list again. She's little disappointed that she didn't get to complete the lst point which to kiss someone she liked.
Alexa, who started to have a crush on Sarah since she joined the team, Ask if she could kiss her to fulfill that last point. Sarah, taken aback at first, agrees. the two share a kiss before heading off to bad.
At a bus stop, Sarah prepares to board a bus to university. She says goodbye everyone who showed up to see her off. One of which includes her mother.
Sarah tells off her mother one last time before boarding the bus to unisersity.

Sample art Panels

two panels of Jessie finding out about Sarah's acceptance letter.

Graphic Novel Pitch: Letter Of Approval - image 5 - student project

Graphic Novel Pitch: Letter Of Approval - image 6 - student project

Rafael Reyes

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