Hi Sterling, here is my working space: shared with my husband in the living-room and with the cintiq in the bed room - not ideal at all! I dreamt an impossible change: taking down the wall between the two rooms and getting rid of the bedroom door so as to have a real "traditional media" space between two of the windows and storing area as well as more space for my cintiq table (I put a shoji around it as it is with the windows i the back, the shoji would dissipate the light . I hope you like the changes i made, i respect my husband's space as well as the cat's! This course is already teaching me lots of things and it's just the first days - this is going to be wonderful: please change me with your teaching!!!

I share my current workspace with my partner. We recently moved in so there is some empty space that could definitely be of better use. For my second sketch I reimagined the room as a printmaking studio, which was fun and inspiring. I realised my desk setup is already pretty good, in front of the window with a lot of plants and natural light and I wouldn’t want to have it any other way. I however would like to make the room more cozy and put a nice rug to lead out to the balcony because it’s really nice to step out there when it’s time for a break.

First sketch is my current multi purpose room used for drawing and painting, dance and yoga, with a recliner for reading and napping. There are two walls of built in shelves that hold an assortment of materials and supplies, fabric, yarn, canvases and frames, in addition to a variety of physical therapy equipment. The shelves are pretty packed but the rest of the room is very spacious The second sketch is the room redesigned for dance and yoga, physical therapy and weights.

Space is pretty tight. I have to work in a corner of the bedroom and my wife also used another nook because she works from home. The space itself is fairly efficient. I have an L shaped desk that allows me to have the laptop open on one section while I have a painting workstation set up on the other section. I also work pretty far from home and don't come home every day, so I've also put a lot of thought into keeping supplies with me. I have a variety of paints, brushes, pencils etc. that I keep in a bag that I take with me when I'm way. My mobile computer equipment consists of a laptop, and an iPad. I'm organized to set up anywhere there is a flat surface. My mind has been on this sort of thing for a while and I've been pretty ruthless about getting rid of some things. I might want to move the scanner if I have a better outlet for it. I also have a TV that sits in the corner of the desk. It stays off most of the time, but if I'm on a really long project that requires a lot of mindless work, it's nice to have something on in the background to help with the boredom.

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.

Live in a 1 bed room apartment with the wife and toddler so it gets tight. We split the living area in two its currently set up like the first sketch for illustration mostly. Works well for me since I work at night mostly. I would like to set up more like the second sketch with my easel to paint more often. I usually will move into the open space while my wife is at work and my daughter is at daycare to work during the day. Making a more open space would work better for painting, we may need to down size some elements or see how they can fit elsewhere.

I have already organized my room to have no distractions and only be a space for working. I used to have my bed and a tv in my room before but it felt like I was cramming in my tools for working into a bedroom. When I would work I would take breaks by resting in bed which sometimes led me to losing my momentum. In order to combat this I removed my bed and tv from this space. I figured since I spend more time working than sleeping, the bed should be an add on to my work space than the other way around. My current setup has been working great. I have a large easel and a french easel as well as a large plein air tripod paintbox. I keep painting projects i'm working on propped up so I constantly see them and catch mistakes. A bookshelf full of art books which holds a scanner on top. Next to it my desk where I do any other work requiring a flat surface. scattered all over my walls I have finished paintings and postcards. If I were to change anything in my room to focus only on painting, I would simply remove everything but the easels and palettes.

Unfortunately I don't have any chance to change anything. I create at the corner of our bedroom. This hinders me from making bigger projects. If I had a space only for me: this is what it would like. Lots of empty space and light. A corner only for my easel, a clear desk to write, a workstation to be left untidy. And a big closet/cabinet to keep my art supply, books and finished paintings.. Thank you for making me dream-

I’ve been studying illustration and fine arts for quite awhile now, so my living room has two configurations: PC related tusks [from work to games] - pc screen in “main” position And studying/drawing/hopefully, also, working - one day… and ideating, I guess😋 [studio configuration if you will)] but the only difference usually: screen, keyboard and mouse along with my tea pot and cup move around the table to a stand where I usually have canvas/sketchbook/ipad as simple and as convenient as it got so far)

The sketch on the left is the room I use as a kitchen/living room/art station. In the right area there are the furniture and the desk that I need to work on the illustrations. In the left area there is the kitchen, sofa, TV and play area for my son. Considering that my house is very small, I think I have already created a comfortable space for myself to work. This exercise made me think about how I managed the space and I think I couldn't do better :) In the sketch on the right I reinvented the room as a tattoo studio (which is my second passion). Obviously I had to remove the kitchen and living room to create an entrance with a table for snacks and a coffee machine. The other half of the room could have the furniture with all the products to use, a bed and lights and a desk to continue my illustration work. I would put a wall to divide the spaces. Maybe I went a little off topic with second sketch :)

Hello Sterling, maybe you remember me maybe not, happy to be here and keep learning from you. I have to work areas: 1. In the corner of the dining room I have a table and a little cart where I do the paintings, I draw in here as well. 2. One wall of the bedroom I do my work as a designer, sometimes I draw in here. I don't have the ideal working space and I can't have a dedicated room for creative endeavours, I work with what I have and I hope in the future this improves. but there's always potential of the possibility and as and exercise I redraw my bedroom as a dedicated space for creative work, digital work (design, drawing and painting) and traditional work where I paint and have my materials; also I put a small table for my espresso machine and two chairs for social and resting. the table for traditional work is on the wall of a big window this helps with illumination. For the moment to help with working without distractions I bought a headphone with noise cancellation. As I don't work for the moment with

I have two rooms in the house that I use for graphic design and painting, I use the dining room for my graphic design where there are a couple of computers as the space is shared with my husband. I made space to the left of my computer for drawing as suggested at the start of this course. The dining table nearly fills the room and it’s a little tight walking in, but once seated I am comfortable, also away from distractions. I do have a room where I used to do paintings in, but this stopped when my mother became very ill and I needed to move back in with her for couple of years. Now that I am back the room where I painted is full of things I bought back with me, along with some of my paintings that are on the floor, and are difficult to clear at present. So for now I imagined how I would change the dining room into a painting studio, keeping a similar set up as before. In my mind I took out the centre piece of the table to rotate it. I wouldn’t want to use the table for painting things so I added some glass nesting tables from the lounge that can be used for the palette, brushes, and rags etc. After I had done this, it put me in a much better frame of mind to sorting out the painting room, starting with my favourite painting that was leaning against the wall on the floor with the rest of the clutter. I thought of a perfect place in the dining room where it will be seen whenever I enter the room. It’s just a start to getting back my painting room, but already I am ‘priming’ myself. So glad I did this excercise! Thank you Sterling.

The sketch above shows the studio as it is now, designed for digital illustration. The sketch below shows how the studio would look like, thinking about adding painting and making small objects.

Sketch one: current space - when I moved in, I sort of already designed it in a way for working remotely at my day job. And only recently got an old wacom to get some digital art practice in. The space is office/art/misc - a few small sit down desks with the intentions to do traditional but it really is just cluttered with cups/loose paper and junk mail… sketch two: I’ll actually apply this today, clean up the space to keep things clean and organised (helps with a clean space to think but I have a bad habit of letting that slide). I plan to split the area to have 3 working modes - of digital, analog and hybrid. Hybrid is to plan and use the laptop but analog would be an area where I just log off electronics and do the analog art practice without distractions and books by my side for inspiration.

My current setup, which feels a lot more cramped than it appears in the sketch 😆 redesigning it to have a space to set up a tripod for filming with a clear view of my painting easel helped a lot.

My temporary studio, where I hope to be able to stay a few more years. Looking forward to learn and use more media in this course 😃

Sketch 1 is my living room/ lazy art area. I paint, draw design on my coffee table, and this provides lots of opportunity for slouching. I have a spare bedroom that was intended to be an art room, but I've never made it appealing enough to separate myself from my living room and work deliberately in my art room. My art easel is tucked away beside the couch to the left, and is used more just stack canvas boards, which is kinda sad. Sketch 2 is this room re-imagined as an art studio, with my art desk, and easel against the window, so I could look out into the outdoors and catch the sun on my face. It would feel more pleasing, almost like working en plein air from inside. with the easel in sight, I'd be more compelled to stand up and paint. The desk would have a high chair if I also wanted to sit/stand and paint at the desk. I kept the book shelves and couch for moments of diving into the books and coming letting inspiration sink in. And I love relaxing in general. Cool activity! I actually realized a lot about my space! It needs a tune up! :)

I've realized, thanks to this assignment, that I could really make more use of the space. Since it's not a lot of space, I've really only allowed myself to do one part of the work in my studio. I'll take reference shots, sit models, or arrange objects elsewhere and then take sketches and photos to the studio. This may just work to have a space for models and objects with lighting in the same space. I'd love to do more work from life. It would be really nice as well to have a larger work table, even if it means sacrificing some storage.

I got lucky and found my room pretty easy to transform when it is time to paint. I do photography as well, but in the outdoors. My room as is is setup for writing or drawing on a table. It helps when the table is fold-able.