I drew my room from the last time I lived with my parents in AZ. This is what it looked like during COVID and into 2023 while I was doing my Master's degree. Then I moved to VA, and when I visited them around a year after I moved, it was completely different. The desk and bed had swapped sides, and all of my personal belongings were obviously with me. I can't remember what I had on that second desk, but my room had gone through many iterations since we had moved in in 2007, so it's hard to remember any specifics involving paraphernalia. There was even a period where my mom's hoarding had taken over my room, and I was sleeping on a mattress with no frame--it was where the piano was in the sketch. There were boxes and junk piled up all over my room, and it looked more like a storage room than a bedroom. And when I was a child, I had a bookshelf that looked like a 4x4 grid, and my bed was in the center of that back wall. I'll definitely be doing more of this exercise; it's nice to reminisce.

I can tell some of my proportions are off, but it was still a fun challenge.

Real room HW. As usual, perspective and angles were tricky for me. Really interesting how hard it is to remember all the details of a room I’ve lived in for 14 years! Feedback please!

Real Room Hw, both the hallway and the den. This was tough and as always any feedback recommended!

My favorite room. Last year, my wife and I moved into our condo. The property came with a basement unit which I converted into a hobby room. It is the first time I have had a dedicated space for art. I did this as a graphite sketch last week on 14ʺX17ʺ. However, I was having difficulty getting that version to look presentable on the computer. The cause may have been a combination of poor lighting and poor camera quality on the part of my cellphone. Eventually, I decided that I would rather just trace over the whole thing with digital pencil on another layer and then discard the photograph. I added some values so that it wouldn't look as out of place next to Gaby's wonderful submissions. I am confident this sketch captures the essential feeling of the space, but comparing it to the actual room, there are indeed proportional errors. Additionally, there are objects and features I altogether forgot existed until I was through with the sketch. Or more commonly, I misremembered the exact shape of the objects I did draw.

I realise there are a lot of issues in these first 2 attempts (feedback welcome) but can I just say how much this has opened my eyes. I’ve been a professional designer of one sort or another for 10 years now and have relied on photoshop/ references or using visualisers for everything - I’ve never really understood how to get into drawing from imagination. You’ve just opened a massive door for me @stevenzapata and I can’t thank you enough. The way you explain stuff has got me out of my head and made me attempt something i didn’t know I could do. Thank you!