My Journey
JHi, my name is Alvaro Arturo Nunez, the author/illustrator of Seven. I was born in Guadalajara Mexico, and moved to the United States at the early age of 4. I started this project in 2009 when I was a freshman in high school. The project actually derived from a video game project I was making. I became far more interested in the story of the world I was making than the actually game mechanics themselves. So i started sketching out worlds and thinking of interesting ideas. As I began my journey I noticed it would be far more difficult than I originally thought. I even noticed that my ability to draw photo realistic object would be of almost no help. Since I would be having to design a world and art style of which I would have to keep consistent. Many times I started my project over thinking it was not good enough but now I believe it to be ready. Below you will find my progress through out the years. I hope you enjoy it
Alvaro Arturo Nunez SEVEN, Artist and Illustrator |
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Conception and Sketches
July 12 2009 - November 22 2011
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In 2009 I was revisiting some old line of code for a fighting video game I had previously worked on called Wind Wars. The characters in that series were aimed for a younger audience. So then decided to do the opposite, I should create whole new characters with an original plot and aimed for a more mature audience.
I thought up a boy with a sword of which could extend outwards and retract back into its original position (just like a roll of measuring tape). I designed his hair to be white and his eyes blue just like the colors of a summer's sky, for it reminded me of my hometown in Mexico. The character also had a black scar around his eye, as well as a prosthetic left arm with razor sharp nails at the end. I named him Suri, it was the most random name i could think of. I started to wonder what had happened to him and what his story was. This was the Beginnings of Project: Rapid Corruption which later became Seven. |
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Early Work
November 22 2011 - December 31 2011
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This is the First Attempt at trying to get Rapid Corruption up off the ground. What this mini Project taught me before i actually started was ..
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Second Attempt
December 31 2011 - may 13 2012
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This is my Second try to get it right. With this Attempt you could see that i had a very clear perspective on what i wanted each character to be. as well as still getting use to Pigma Pens. I do admit i was weird going from Pencil to Pen.
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Third Attempt
May 13 2012 - July 31 2012
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Like What U See? This is a little preview i have created for my fans out there that wanna actually see what my finished products are looking like. I upload these every Friday on my Fan Page within Facebook (this ended on july 31 2012)
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Forth Attempt
July 31 2012 - Nov 10 2012
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I had finally Created my Final Character design (Kace Being the exception) and the world now seemed more alive and creative. It is fully original and has a great story line.
The Grounds have been set for a great epic story. Characters include:
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Fifth Attempt
Nov 10 2012 - March15 2013
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In this stage I adopted a very nice all put together look for the comic book and made a couple of modifications.
The Art styles adapted for the buildings are similar to the architectural work of I.M. Pei. The city has a mixture of future aspects to it but as well has past aspects to it (such as the blimp). There was also a huge redesign of the character Kace (girl in picture to the left, Drinking the ice tea and texting ). Characters include:
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Sixth Attempt
March 15 2013 - July 15 2014
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In this stage I adopted a very nice all put together look for the comic book and made a couple of modifications.
The art styles adapted for the buildings are similar to the architectural work of I.M. Pei. The city has a mixture of future aspects to it but as well has past aspects to it (such as the blimp). There was also a huge redesign of the character Kace (girl in picture to the left, Drinking the ice tea and texting ). Characters include:
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Seventh Attempt
July 15 2014 - May 3r 2017
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This is the real deal, the book has started after years of brainstorming, sketching and reboot after reboot, the project is finally up and running. The art style is now up to my standards. The writing and overall direction of the project is now clear. Now just time to go at it hard and make tons and tons of pages for you guys to read critic and enjoy.
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FINALIZED FORM
May 3rd 2017 - PRESENT
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Moved everything to digital using a surprisingly powerful iPad app named Comic Draw. Very impressive application of which allowed me to move at a rapid pace. Also converted all my physical pages to digital and went from inking to full on creation from the ground up in digital.
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