So I was planning on cleaning up my sketches a bit after I scanned them, make some details clearer etc. but my tablet pen is dead and the charge wire for it at my ex's apartment so until I can get over there to grab it (hopefully tonight sometime) this is all I can offer. The comic pages are very sketchy and mostly at this point want critique on the dialogue to make it sound more natural and any other suggestions.
(Looking at it now he looks really stiff, any help on making him look a little more natural? I have trouble with static poses looking TOO static, like they're a posed doll rather than a person standing still. Planned to fix his hand in sai but tablet issues. This sketch is a few months old from March. )
Wallace isn't sure how he got his power to turn into water. He was adopted and his parents don't like to talk about the "arduous, boring process" they had to go through so he knows nothing of the day he was taken into their care as a very small child.
Despite his loving Asian parents, Wallace turned into a brat, then a douche, then worked his way up the ladder to become Certified Douche.
He's got a large ego, is a womanizer (although being a man doesn't disqualify one from his attention but 'ladies are easier'), and despite having gone straight from High School to living in his crappy ass apartment in a not-entirely-sketchy area of town tends to act like a frat boy, and as a result is usually scraping quarters together for a package of ramen at the end of the week so he won't starve.
His ability to turn into water is more complex than what it sounds. While Wallace himself has no idea what he's actually doing when he shifts, he has the ability to change his molecular structure, items around him and (while he's not strong enough to do so) even other organisms into water until he changes them back. Likewise, he can also create tangible items out of water and turn them into a solid, though the structural integrity isn't always great because his strength is so poor. Using it too often causes fatigue so he generally sticks to using it for quick-wardrobe changes, showing off to get laid, and the occasional quick getaway a-la Alex Mack.
His parents are aware of his abilities and always cautioned him to be careful of who sees him use it, worrying about government experimentation, exploitation, or (if they were honest with themselves) him abusing it for illegal purposes.
Wallace spends his days doing drugs, getting fucked up, and amounting to nothing. The American Dream. He only drinks fruity girly drinks, usually bright in color and he'll always ask for a cherry even if it doesn't come with one.
So uh that's what I've got. I tried signing up years ago but I was kind of kidding myself at the time. My motivation was nonexistant and I hadn't so much as tried to draw a comic in years before that. I punched this intro comic out pretty fast though, looking for some feedback before I clean it up since it IS the first comic I've done in awhile and I'm not so good at the flow of it, or backgrounds.
Transcript for the comic as of right now (cause my handwriting is awful, I changed some dialogue, and it's probably kinda hard to follow at this stage).
"My name is wallace." [Guy walks across foreground]
"No not the leg.. " [Zoom in on puddle]
"Hang on a sec.." [Puddle starts to rise and form a figure seen from knees down]
"...Almost..!"
"There! I'm..Oh wait a sec."
"Stupid camera.."
"There we go!" Shing, sparkle sparkle, lookit that handsome devil
"I'm Wallace!"
"I grew up in the city and just moved out on my own!"
"My apartment is a little bare..." [A lonely dirty couch and tv on the floor]
"...But my fridge is well stocked!" [A 12 pack of 'ocean'grams]
"So it's not so bad. Most of my friends moved away though..." [Wallace holds a camera partly in frame, looking in a mirror]
"...but that's okay, cause I decided to start a vlog!" Make some new friends
"....Proooobably shouldn't have my powers on camera though."
"...."
"Fuck it! Hello America, I'm Wallace!"
"and I can turn into water!"
For some reason.
http://i.imgur.com/aeZPad5.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/EdeiC53.jpg
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Colbitzer
@ 3:32 PM Apr 17th