This thesis deals with the process of visual creation for editorial purposes where it is conception to design the picture book The Girl, the Small River and the Prince, based on a free adaptation of the literary work The Girl of Little Nose, written and edited by Monteiro Lobato in 1920. The proposal is guided by principles of composition and narrative of sequential character, anchored by a line of thought about form. According to these fundamentals, the work is structured from a paradigm shift. As a rule, the elaboration of drawings for picture books is preceded by the reading of a certain text. However, in methodological terms, the proposition that marks the course of this research project alters this logic. Such a change aims to widen the radius of visual comprehension in the production of a story without words. Thus, when accessing the literary matrix of Lobato we are not restricted only to the sphere of influence of the original story. Circumscribed in this logic, the research is developed in three stages in which each segment is directly related to the image. In the first phase, these are formal questions that involve artistic discourse and the analysis of the work of art, favoring the absorption of knowledge that functions as a propelling agent of work. At this stage, in particular, the theoretical thought of Johannes Itten (1888-1967) stands out. Then, based on the results achieved and based on
compositional procedures of cinematographic character, under the influence of Uri Shulevitz (1935-), among other artists and theorists, we developed three booklets called Abstract Narrative Composition Nº. 1, 2 and 3. After this stage, according to the established premises and the respective interweaving to the analysis of the book The Girl of the Arrhythmed Nardy, we present the visual proposition of the narrative and the characterization of the illustrations that, consequently, constitute the artistic materialization of the present thesi
