Trevalias: processo criativo e experimentações em quadrinhos

Abstract

This dissertation contains a drawn and written record of how I tell comic stories. This study aims to demonstrate, through the creative process, its importance for the field of study of artistic productions. It’s family stories, conversations with friends, books and comics read, anime and movies watched, encounters with spirituality, churches and cemeteries, alleys and corridors that spark my curiosity and sharpen my desire to make art. Trevalias is a synthesis of this creative thought and its transposition into comics, through documents, photos, notes and drawings, but also through the particular search for self-knowledge that stimulates the act of creation. Divided into three parts, first, I analyze fragments of my childhood and the contact with comic book art; in the second part, I describe the comics production process using the genetic criticism (SALLES, 2018) relating it to other processes and artists; and finally, in the third part, I present the results obtained from experiments in comics production and future expansions. With the case study of creative process, we seek to contribute to research and genetic studies that encourage artists to talk about their own creative processes in comic books. By criticizing the processes, we can demystify the art of creating comics as something very complex and unattainable, offering adeeper understanding of the work involved, the verbal and non verbal elements. It also aims to encourage, inspire and educate aspiring artists and creators to experiment and develop new ways of telling stories.