My current living situation is oriented around my daily needs and surroundings. I rearranged it multiple times in the past. I did end up with an efficient space considering all factors. As there might be general life changes in the near future, I see no need to rearrange now. But I thought about how I could arrange the room if I could dedicate it to my art-related activities only.

First sketch on the left and second is the right. The first shows a shared room for a library, music and my art studio. The second just reflects an art studio and library. Oh and I also showed the adjoining bathroom because we have plans this year to remodel and expand our closet for the music gear and shows a new door for the bathroom in the room.

I recently changed my working space: I mainly draw digitally, the laptop and the Wacom taking a lot of space on my desk (with the usual clutter on the rest of the surface). Because I want to practice analogue drawing as well, I need to be able to switch efficiently between digitally and analogue drawing. Putting the Wacom away every time I wanted to draw with real ink blocked me to do it, it was too much of an obstacle. Now I moved the reading chair and put in a second table, just for analogue drawings and the setup is there to just sit down and do the work. Much easier and efficient. Much more fun ^^ The second room is a design for more people coming into the studio: A workshop setup, for example. The tables are at the center, everything around them is easy to get (paper and pens, a little table for refreshments). I recently painted the door to be magnetic: It can now hold paper and I could do demonstrations there for everybody to see.

Please pardon the scribbles bits, I was using pen and messed up some sizing some areas. For both spaces you will see two desks, that is because I like sharing my space with my spouse. It's not something i want to change. Thing I want to change is where the space is located... Due to circumstances we are stuck in our bedroom which can be a little crampped and can make sleeping at night troublesome sometimes. I hope to move my digital art space to another area when available in an attempt to gain better habits and be closer to my existing area for when I want to paint traditional.

Hello everyone! I don't know is it a good thing to post submissions since the last post was a year ago. Still, I think I just want to share my story of doing this course. I didn't expect that the first submission would be a hard one. I do not own a studio to work in, or a private room. My room is shared and it's pretty small. All of my working, studying and drawing hours I spend in the corner of my room at a small triangular desk. It is truly depressing, to be honest. At my current state a cannot afford to move/ rent a workshop or something like that. So! In order to make at least some changes, I decided to some of my work at my dinner table. For now it's concerns drawing in traditional media and learning/ doing courses. I have also made several conditions: to clean it up before the start, to prepare my laptop, art supplies, water. I think it is a good start. As they say: it ain't much, but it's honest work :D Till next submission!

I drew my first space and thought about it. I found that it was too busy, too much loose things everywhere that made the atmosphere too crowded and restless. So after doing this excercise I've been cleaning up, putting stuff I don't regularly need into other places and creating a much more peaceful place where I can find everything easily. The second thumbnail was focused on redesigning mar workplace for creating videos for teaching stuff. Not that I'm a big fan of making videos but it was a nice excercise to see how that changes my choices in organizing my space.

I have an open space with a kitchen, living area and desk/work area. The northern half of this space has tilted walls and reduced headspace, which makes it difficult to organize things. I always felt the living area and my desk was not partitioned well enough and seemed a bit cluttered. I rotated the sofa to face the TV console and create more of a partition, and I rotated my desk to face the northern wall instead of the bookshelves. This made watching TV a little less comfortable but my work area looks and feels much better.

Oh gosh, my office/studio space is the bane of my existence, lol! I do design and illustration here, so a mix of digital workspace and messy traditional, and right now its all happening on the same desk (1). This leads to clutter and distraction! Over the years I have attempted every configuration possible. I don't like the door behind me, it makes me feel uneasy and tense, but also don't want the desk facing the window, as theres a radiator underneath and I also I cant reach the blind/window latch without a feat of acrobatics (2). All that aside, I am so grateful to have a dedicated room for doing all my creative stuff, even if I end up moving it all around every 6 months :D

small apartment living in nyc keeps things pretty efficient off the bat, but if I had my druthers I would move my desk closer to to the window and at an angle to get some light and add a more permanent easel set up with a counter for supplies. Bottom is a pass at reorganizing my current desk area.

My current workspace used to be my family's storage room and I'm currently still in the process of fully changing it's use over to be fully my space. Currently half the room has a provisional setup that I can use for my work, whilst the other half is still cluttered and needs to be sorted. I don't have any shelves yet so all my art books and art supplies are just sorted into giant piles that are scattered around the room making looking for anything, very inefficient. Additionally it's just not the best working environment. So rather than drawing my current workroom and what it would look like if I did different work in it, I instead decided to draw my current workroom and then my ideal setup for this workroom. I have five main focuses when it comes to creativity and thats art and writing which would happen at the table, music which would happen at my piano, photography and filmmaking for which I would store my camera and lighting equipment in a large wardrobe and then sewing and costume making for which I would have a seperate workbench. This way each of my focuses would have their own area, allowing me to work on multiple projects at the same time without constantly having to change the setup of my room. The ceiling is an open cellar ceiling so there's just a bunch of pipes running across, I would like to create an old forgotten overgrown factory vibe using them by decorating the pipes with fake plants and using some sheer fabric to create a kind of canopy over my art and writing corner, adding a level of cozyness and colour. Additionally I'd like to hang a bunch of art prints and posters on my walls. All of which to give me an instant hit of inspiration and creativity when I enter the room. I'd also love a cork board on one of the walls to use for planning either for my sowing projects, or my worldbuilding planning for my writing.

My office space is a bit cramped since I do my digital and traditional work in this space. It is a bit more cramped in real-life and I tend to overflow with unfinished projects on the floor, which I need to utilize my closet better although it is hard to acces. My idea was, from a while ago, to switch my computer next to the window and build a custom shelf/cabinet systems behind me where I can put my projects on the shelf. This will help tidying up the place by seing their progress and, with a billy foldable table from Ikea, help me not letting my art supply pile up everywhere (see 3d image). If I don't want to see my projects or need to be in video conference, I could hide it with a curtain across the room. Allowing me to focus on my digital work without stimulation. Anyway what is a bit project probably for the summertime if I can stay in my apartment but I think I could run the curtain to help and still make the computer switch.

Had to redo the first one since I realised I had put in far too much detail. It's been a while since I've had to remind myself to hold back like that.

No.1 is my current setup. I got rid of my bed a couple of years ago so the room can feel more like a workspace during the day. This set up is not ideal, I think. The desk for traditional work feels a bit awkward to use, but I mostly do digital work, so it wasn't that much of a problem for me. No.2 is a setup I imagined for filming videos doing traditional art. I changed the desk to a bit bigger one and moved it to a spot with better sunlight. Watching traditional work videos with good natural light always makes me want to draw and paint, so... While doing this assignment, I realized I've never thought about the layout of my room like this. This was really helpful and fun to do. I might change my room's set up to No.2! Even though I won't be filming anything I might be able to work on my traditional art skills more in that setup.

My workspace currently occupies the corner of the room in our shared living/dining area, so it’s not as efficiently arranged as it could be to support a focused environment for work. This introductory assignment already has me planning an overhaul to help correct that!

this is an assignment i felt intimidated by and i still don't know if i did it right. it was really weird not labeling anything. but the first one has a lot of art supplies, an easel, pencil cart, things like that. One thing that is not designed well is I have a number of 'storage boxes,' that I know i could do better with. Maybe have a designated shelf for misc are things. The second one is imagining making a movie in this room, there is a small stage, a camera, a sound room, a light, a privacy fitting area for actors to change outfits. And I kept the computer space cause movies still require a lot of computer effects often. I put storage of things like props off to the side of the set.

The first sketch, Existing Space, is more of a hybrid — part living room, part workspace. It works fine as a small studio for me, and sometimes my dad uses it when he visits. The second sketch changes the setup into more of a small studio. I took out the sofa and added another desk. With the desks in the middle, it’s easy to move around and work from different sides, whether it’s digital, traditional, or even making small models. This way, the space can also work for two people.

Because i was focusing on the reading part of the space. it became a space with my back to the door and it is uncomfortable. I wanted also to have an analogue desk and digital desk. mixing the two for me gives me an opportunity to get distracted. also a comfortable place to read.

My office is currently set up to do digital art at my desk with a printer in the corner. This works well for me. But if I was to set up for my woodcarving I would put a workbench with vice where the desk is. I also have a bandsaw that would replace the printer. All my tools would live in two large rolling carts that can move around as needed to give me access to what I need. I don't think I'm gonna do this, but it was a fun exercise.

This is a shared office space where one of us focuses on digital while the other embraces traditional media. I moved the desks together but still left room for our little cat tree in the corner, but this would allow us to try digital effects and mocap with a quiet area for voice work in the closet.

Here's mine. I love my room's layout so it wasn't easy to come up with an alternative.