Chapter One What Do You All Think?

Here's the first chapter of my graphic novel each time I do another chapter my art gets better. Just like the main protagonist its a journey and its only getting better let me know what you guys think. Feedback is important. I hope to get it finished and published next year. (I am the sole owner of the art and story of this creative production.)

New Novel I'm working on. Check out the two page prologue

Hey everybody as you all know I'm working on a graphic novel but I also am work on a novel. Please check out the prologue. Its about alot of the stuff going on in the world. Corruption, technolgy, all kinds of cool stuff lol. Please let me know what you think.

Prologue:

Sirens rang through the streets, people screaming echoed from every inch of the city. Although the night blanketed the skyline, it was slowing being dissolved by the lights and fires burning, reaching up.

How did it get to this, the chaos? How could a civilized culture break down so absolutely? Who was to blame for this? Is good intentions the excuse we use to justify being savages?

Down the street a family, with only their most prized possessions in hand flee their home. Frantic they run down the stairs of the stoop not evening closing the door behind them. A cop car slowly pulls up to the sidewalk. “Please everyone remain calm. This is the Elis City Police Department. We are here for your safety.”

The family stops. The older man ushers the small girl behind him. The man hushes his family of four. An officer steps from the vehicle. The man’s wife becomes panicked, she runs. Two shots ring out into the desolate city street. Shutting the door to his cruiser the officer walks over to the man and his two children.

Act. Do something. Damn it, you coward! Do something!

My legs barely allow me to step from the alley. “Excuse me officer?”

As the officer turn to face me with his gun drawn he is tackled by the man. “Roger! Abagail, run!”

I grab the young girls hand. Shes terrified, still staring at her mother’s lifeless corpse. I reach for the teenage boy, but he is already running to help his dad. Three shots kill the man and his son. The girl screams, the officer raises his gun to shoot. Glass from the abandoned store front is blasted into the air as another explosion is set off. “Run!” My brain screams to my legs. I make a mad dash for the alley where just moments ago I was hiding like a rat. I hear the footsteps following close behind. The girl does her best to keep up, but her grip and pace is weakening. With all my strength I propel the girl up and forward into my arms. I took a wrong turn. This mistake is rewarded with a dead end. The door to my left is bolted shut. Ruthlessly I slam my shoulder into the hard wooden door. Again. And again. Finally the door busts of the hinges and I scramble into the darkness.

The empty storeroom is filled with old crates and cob webs. In the shadows I put the girl down, I can’t tell if shes shivering from the cold or from witnessing her entire family murdered before her eyes. “Hi my names, Ben. Your Abagail right?”

She nods.

“Ok, Abby. We’re gonna have to play a very important game of hide and go seek. Ok.”

Another nod.

“Alright. Stay hidden. I’ll be right back. “

As I stand up I feel a tug on my jacket. She looks at me for a second. No words. With just like an old language we’ve long since forgotten she says to me, “Come back.”

“I’ll be right back. I promise.” She lets go. The silhouette of the officer is illumated in the door way. He cocks his gun, solidifying his intent. They say in a situation like this evolution takes over, fight or flight. But they never mention the paralyzing fear one feels. I feel as if my feet have been melted into the floor. It’s so quiet I can hear blood frantically being pushed through my veins. Time seems to slow for a second. My body moves, flowing so quickly through and out of the shadows. The officer is knocked to the ground. I fling myself on top of him, he struggles to aim the gun he still holds in his hand. Stars flood my vision as I’m struck with the butt of the gun. I send my fist blindly into his direction, it connects. The officer drops the gun, but recoils and jabs me in the stomach with his baton. I’m on the ground, again and again he bashes me with the metal rod. I feel the cold hardness of steel under my hand. Those old primal instincts spread to every inch of my body as I raise the gun and pull the trigger. The officer falls back into a pile of boxes.  I begin to shake and the gun feels heavy in my hand. I just killed someone. A human being. Not now. There’s no time to feel the guilt you need to get somewhere safe. I slide the gun into the back of my pants. The girl!

I find her right where I left her. Safe. Still shaking. “It’s ok. Come on lets go. We have to get somewhere safe.” Safe? Where is safe? The city’s going to shit. The police are killing anyone they see as “suspicious”. Riots are happening all over the city. I didn’t mean to help cause this. My cause was just. It was wrong what the government was doing to us. To all of us. I thought The Assembly was just a little extreme in their goals to change the system, the government. Their intentions were good, that the ends justified the means. But look what it brought us. Radicals who had their own goals, were they just as corrupt as those they sworn to dismantle. I should have listened to Nina. I just hope that it’s not too late.

Just a Quickie!!

Just drew this up for one of my Dad's friends. He was looking for a cool tattoo. Has a sci fi steampunk thing too it. Whatcha think?

Need Conceptual Artwork

Hey if anybody needs some artwork done for taatoos or album artwork or a birthday card for your grandma or something. Hit me up with an email or message me. We can talk about what you want. Wont cost you much. Tell yeah "Homies" lol thanks guys

C.

P.s
Have already done mulitple taatoos and concept pieces for a record company. :p

Oh No he's Posting Again!!!

"Oh man he's posting another picture, who is this guy? Well maybe I should check it out?.....nice." Thanks for checking out my post guys. Finished the rough storyboarding for chapter two now just gonna start draw the actual panel pages. Keep checking back.

To Print and Send, Or not to Print and Send

Hey guys and gals, whats happenin. lol So I've started doing concept art for chapter two know that I kinda have a flow going it should take me as long also its not as long as a chapter. But if any one has any advice dont know if I should print out final text and color of my first chapter and along with a disk of story and full concept art to publishers to see if any ones interested or if I should just finish book one then go to publishers. What do you think. Just wanna see if Im on the right track. Comment below thanks guys

Ch-Ch-Check it out! lol

Heres some more concept art from my comic. The top picture is a landscape piece i did, Middle is a quick pencil and ink of an alien bug-like creature, the bottom is an upcoming character in chapter two his name is Fennantic or Fennan for short.

Just on of my pages from my Graphic Novel. Like i said in the post before the color looks amazing on my ipad but it loses some of it lackluster when not on it.

Hmm. There seems to be an issue with color. I originally pencilled and ink my first chapter. Then I scanned it and have been using my iPad as a tablet. But the colors look fantastic on my iPad but on my home computer kinda suck. Maybe it's my computer. Let me know.

The Beginning

Hey this I guess is my first post if your reading this thank you. It means you've taken an interest in what I'm saying or showing whichever the case may be. As of today, April 19 2012. I have started my journey towards being an accomplished artist. I have been drawing since I was six( of course not as well as I do now) I always loved creating images and stories from my imagination. Comics, I find are a beautiful amalgamation of the brilliance of story telling and imagery. I have been working on a comic idea for almost seven years. It changed and grew as I did. The idea and theme I always wanted to get across was there it was just the ability and words to present it were just nestled beyond my reach. Have written the two first books and beginning the third in the series. I have began the amazing and daunting task of illustration and colouring. I have completed the first chapter of the first book, it like the story in the book itself is a journey. As the main character of Jack grows, so does my skill as an artist and as a story teller. So I make no apologies for some of the lets call it rawness of the first book it is the beginning of a truly epic story that I hope you can read sometime.

Heres to the first of many,
Corey "CJ" Gorham