I am still living at home with my parents in a small house. Unfortunately, I don't have much space outside of my bedroom to call my own. I have avoided working in my bedroom because I find it difficult to focus there, and I very much prefer going someplace specifically to work. Recently I have set up my mobile drawing desk in the home office/pantry/prayer room/ dog room in the back of the house. As can be seen in my thumb nails the original (real) layout of the room is quite cluttered and includes many items that aren't mine and aren't relevant to my art practice. My redesign keeps the few items that are mine in place, and brings in some other art equipment and items from around the house for a consolidated drawing and illustration studio. I was tempted to include a space for painting, but I thought that would just clutter it up too much.

I drew the Chimpanzee a bunch and then a few skulls and the skeletal layout from memory. Then I moved on to the Gorilla which was observation only.

I ended up throwing some more human characteristics on this Chimpanzopus. Not super happy with the face or many of the details, but he is fairly dynamic I think. I would have continued him, but I wanted to move on and learn more.

Took some humility to draw cylinders for an hour but glad I did it. Very good practice and helps a lot with making the perspective intuitive. I feel like I restricted my notional vanishing points to the scope of the page, and I realize now that if I had expanded the horizon line beyond the page I could have created a greater variety of perspectives.