This is the beginning of a journey full of magic, mysteries and secrets. And everyone is invited to enter this new world!
In more than 180 pages, you can start a journey that will take you through paths full of adventure and magic. A story for everyone, which shows us that fantasy has no age limit to be read.
Enerelis is one of Earth's three parallel worlds. At peace for fourteen years, it is populated by several races and creatures that were born thanks to the existence of two opposing forces, Nox and Aether, granting its inhabitants extraordinary abilities. It is in this world that Eyren Caeli, a 12-year-old boy, begins his long journey to accomplish his only goal: saving his best friend. However, his past haunts his every step.
Like the journey of our young protagonist, the creation of the Chronicles has also been quite a journey: the script was built between 2008 and 2015, and was planned to be a comic book series with manga influences.
In 2018, it started the adventure of turning the script into sequential art. And now it is the very best opportunity to share the beginning of this journey with everyone who loves parallel worlds, magic and a story full of secrets. There will be some mystery too and a pinch of fun. Scroll down the page for more on a .PDF that introduces you to the Enerelis universe.
Estudo de ambiente a cores
This is the start of a new series that will bring much more stories and fantasy to comics. In this phase, in more than 180 black&white pages, every single character will show us that, to fulfil their goals, they have to find the value of sacrifices.
Therefore, it is time to publish and spread the word about the first volume. With your help, Enerelis will come to life. This world it is only possible if it is lived by everyone.
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a singe step", said Lao Tzu one day. And I would love to take this step with you!
Everyone is invited to enter this new world!
Estudo de ambiente a cores
About the author
When Patrícia Costa discovered that illustrating Portuguese language school textbooks was fun, she spent her free time illustrating other school subject's books. But it is on library storybooks she finds a source of worlds and characters about to be discovered.
After she had finished Art Studies on Secondary School, she enters on ISCTE, where she graduates on Architecture. The following nine years, she works on an architecture firm.
However, the flame that has born on the love between drawing and writing was never been extinguished and, in 2018, she finds the opportunity of giving life to her creative worlds: she finish an Initiation Course on Sequential Art, lectured by Susana Resende, an illustrator, and Daniel Maia, a comic book artist. The same year, she wins the first prize on the most important comic's contest on Portugal, AmadoraBD.
In 2019, wins the third prize on a comic contest promoted by Odemira's Municipality. Also, she had participated with two short comics on Outras Bandas fanzine, edited by Colectivo Tágide, one of them was the winner of the Best Short Comic on XVII Troféus Central Comics, in 2020. She has done the art and colour for “Posse”, script by the author Penim Loureiro, for the magazine H-Alt #9.
A autora e a personagem
In 2020, wins again the third prize on the comics contest promoted by Odemira's municipality.
Among other comics, she participated on the anthology “Virar a Página”, which assembled some comic book writers and artists, which crowdfunding campaign was succeed on PPL, aiming of collect financial support for Associação CAIS.
Even with all the stories she had created, she never stopped working on this comic book, and at the moment, she have already more than a half of the second volume completed. She hopes one day count on the collaboration of other artists to dedicate herself solely to studies and inking pages, but currently every single page of the Chronicles is done solo.
Currently, in addition to illustration works, comics are the better of two worlds. And she wants to share her creative worlds with everyone.
Budget and due dates
196.
It seems a random number, but it isn't. It is the number of pages of the comic book and each one of them was made with love.
Therefore, each euro collected will serve to pay for the following expenses:
- Printing (100 copies): € 614.80
- Shipping (envelopes and postage): 150,00 €
- PPL commissions: € 138.38
- Pins (100 units): 60,00 €
- Printing of digital illustrations on heavyweight paper: 120,00 €
- Printing of magazine of Volume 02: € 65.00
- Graphite illustrations: 200 €
- Extras (creative work, digital illustrations and other materials): € 151.82
Estudos de personagens
All of these costs are rounded values (except for book printing and commissions) and depend on the number of participants. Any extra money that the campaign makes will be directed for the production of Volume 02 and continue the series.
The estimate production time for all materials is:
- Book printing: up to 3 weeks.
- Designing digital illustrations, magazine and pins: up to 2 weeks.
- Graphite illustrations: up to 1 week.
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