Starting work with the Writer

After you land the job you should be introduced to the writer you'll be working with. Typically you'll be working with a seasoned writer who has been working on the story line since dirt existed. But thankfully when I met the writer I found out he was fresh to the team, like myself. So the first thing I got in my inbox was a rough sketch of a bad guy and a short story line explaining why he was who he was and how he became it. 

This is what I got.

I read the short description of his background. Disgruntled worker gets blown up at a chemical plant while working after hours. The explosion turns him into burning flesh / x-ray skeleton thing who is constantly burning. That was the basic jist. So instead of the tribal loin cloth he is wearing I switched it with a half burnt up hazmat suit. Other than that I just tightened up the skeletal structure, took away his jaw (in the writer's story) and stylalized the flames a tiny bit. 

This is my sketch.

Just to be thourogh I cleaned up the blue and had my color artist (Brad Elliott) do a rough coloring. In the final version we'll add a few things and change the colors a bit, but it was nice to take our sketch a few steps further, just to impress the higher ups. Typically you won't choose your color artist but because of the smaller project I got to choose my partners for the visual aspect of the comic.