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.

Find myself in other areas of the house doing small works on paper…studio gets used for large supports, photography. Accumulation of reference books, supports, supplies, works etc; occasionally organize, reuse supports. Tall ceiling allows for umbrella diffusers/lighting; Wishlist dedicated drawing table.

Epiphany on day one! As I sketched my workspace, I realized that I have not prioritized my workspace for Art. I think I subconsciously felt that my Art wasn’t important enough in our household to deserve a whole room of its own. As a result, the space has accumulated unloved furniture and random household junk. So my redesigned space shows how I would like my room to be: free of clutter and with furniture that is designed and arranged to facilitate the artistic process.

My current studio setup - It's great to have an extra room of my house just for illustration. But I had recently seen some photos of art studio spaces, Gustav Klimt, Lawrence Alma Tadema, JS Sargent - and just thought about what it would be like to have a space dedicated to just drawing and paint - just easels and tables.

My current painting setup in the corner of my living room, vs the same room reimagined as a library/study space. You can see some evidence of editing and erasing, it was difficult to simplify!

The first is my actual bedroom which I use for drawing, draft #2 would be a writing space. The second is a room that is used as warehouse turned into a teaching classroom in draft #2. Thanks in advance!