Welcome to a peek behind the scenes of my Six Foot Six Year Old comic. As an artist, I’ve always loved getting to see how other artists work. We all too often only see the final result, and not the work, iterations, and most importantly failures that happen along the way. Of course every artist has different methods, and one is not better than another, but this was the process I employed in crafting my strip over the course of a couple of years.

Enjoy!

Before any drawing happens, comic strips are written. For this step I would write down ideas on plain copy paper, breaking the dialogue into panel beats.

 
There’s a lot of writing that never makes it to the drawing stage for one reason or another. None of these ideas ended up becoming strips.

There’s a lot of writing that never makes it to the drawing stage for one reason or another. None of these ideas ended up becoming strips.

 
 
Some strips don’t have any dialogue, like the crossed out doodles near the top of this page. Even though they were scratched out (for some reason I can’t remember) the idea was drawn up and became the last strip in the series.

Some strips don’t have any dialogue, like the crossed out doodles near the top of this page. Even though they were scratched out (for some reason I can’t remember) the idea was drawn up and became the last strip in the series.